Wadena
City
Library

Kitchigami Regional Library System

Serving 5 Minnesota counties: Beltrami, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard, and Wadena KRLS empowers libraries to enrich their communities.

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The Wadena City Library was founded in 1900. It joined Kitchigami Regional Library in 1975 and has been in its present building since 2023.

Wadena City Library address:

210 First Street SW

Wadena, MN 56482

Phone: (218)-631-2476

Fax: (218)-632-5029

Email: wadena@krls.org

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Every non-Holiday Wednesday at 10am.

First Monday in June to last Saturday in July. Open to all ages 0 to entering high school seniors. Grand Prize drawing: first week of August.

Adult Winter Reading Program, runs January 1st to February 28th, every year. Grand Prize drawing: first week of April.

Friends of the Library are non-profit groups that support libraries in the community.

Friends are separate from KRLS and each group is made up of volunteers.

Local Library Board Meetings:
Third Tuesday of January, March, May, July,
September and November at 5:00 p.m. – Wadena City Library

Endowment meeting: third Tuesday in March every year, 4:30 PM.

Board Members:

Becky Costner

Meghan Current-Cary

Julie Deiss

Bonnie Ealy

Jessica Keddy

Darlene Leonard

Mark Lunde (ex-officio)

Katie Polman

Sandie Rentz