WiFi, wireless internet service is available.  Users need to bring their own WiFi-compliant 802.11b/g wireless laptop to the library.

Internet stations with access to lazer printer available for registered borrowers.  Visitors may use a temporary pass to access this service.  Cost per print-out, $ .25 for black & white copy, $1.00 for colored copy.

Brodhead city newspapers available on microfilm beginning 1859 to December 1999.  Microfilm reader/copier may be used.  Cost per printed page is $ .25.  Orignal Brodhead Independent Register papers available 2000 to the present.

Copy machine available for public use.  Cost per page is $ .20

Registered card holders may request material not owned by the library.  There is no charge for this service.

A summer reading program is offered to school age readers every summer beginning in June.  Reading incentives, crafts, and special programs are offered at no cost to the readers. 

Story time for preschoolers is offered from September to April.  Time and date may vary.

The library is part of a shared automation system.  An online catalog for card holders is available at http://www.linkcat.info.  Over 3 million items are available in this catalog.  A registered borrower may place holds on line or at the library and the item will be delivered to the Brodhead Library at no charge.  Items may be renewed or personal accounts may be reviewed online, too.

The library currently ownes over 44,000 items for people to borrow.  This collection includes books, audio books on CD and cassettes, CDroms, Large print books, videos, DVDs, children's puzzles, puppets, magazines, and music CDs for adults and children.

Online databases are offered through LINKcat.  Information on business, genealogy, consumers, readers, health and student and teachers is available by clicking on the "Online Databases" tab in LINKcat. 

Lists of new materials, bestsellers, award winners, etc. are available by accessing LINKcat and clicking on "Don't Miss List" tab.

Wisconsin Public Library Consortium offers a digital download center at http://dbooks.wplc.info.

New DVDs added in August: Hidden Hawaii--Death Valley--Golden Boys starring David Carradine--Leap Frog: Let's go to school--Michael Jackson live in Japan--The Soloist--Alan & Naomi--Spinning into Butter--Broken Trail--Coraline--A Father's Choice--Bob the Builder, Call in the Crew--Garrison--Making Something Up--Nora Robert's Tribute--Race to Witch Mountain--Sunshine Cleaning--Pandas in the Wild.

New books on CDs added in August:  David Baldacci's First Family--Sandra Brown's Smash Cut--James Lee Burke's Rain Gods--Agatha Christie's Cat Among the Pigeons--Robin Cook's Intervention--Diane Mott Davidson's Fatally Flaky--John R. Erickson's Hank the Cowdog, The case of the dinosaur birds--Janet Evanovich's Plum Spooky--Brian Herbert's The Winds of Dune--James Herriot's Treasury for Children--Tami Hoag's Rumor Has It and The Trouble with J.J.--Elisabeth Hyde's In the Heart of the Canyon--J.A. Jance's Fire and Ice--Dean Koontz's Relentless--Louis L'Amour's 3 Audio Dramatizations and Treasure Mountain--Stephenie Meyer's The Host--Mary Pope Osborne's The Good Night for Ghosts--James Patterson's Cross Country--Susan Elizabeth Phillips' What I did for Love--Jennifer Weiner's Best Friends Forever--Rebecca Well's The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder.

NONFICTION TITLES:  Car Talk, Field Guide to the North American Wacko--Catastrophe and how to fight back--Great Classic Humor--Rocket Men, the epic story of the first men on the moon--The Upside of the Downturn, ten management strategies to prevail in the recession and thrive in the aftermath.