Ainsworth Public Library

The Ainsworth Art Guild put up their fall art display yesterday. The fall exhibit features “owls”. You may view the art work till October 18th.

The Silent Witness Display is currently at the library. You may read about each victim and their story through October 6th.

If you missed out on making the recycled book fall decoration on Saturday and would like to create one, please let us know. Call (387-2032) or stop by the library. We have supplies left to make more! This week only. The cost is $10 to help cover supply cost.

AINSWORTH LIBRARY BOARD MEETING at the Ainsworth Public Library on

October 1, 2025 at 5 p.m. This meeting is open to the public!

AGENDA

1. Call meeting to order

2. Notice of the posting of the Nebraska Open Meeting Act

3. Roll call

4. Public Comment Time

5. Approve minutes of last meeting

6. Approve claims for payment

7. Monthly Library Report for August and September/List of title purchased

8. Update on Budget for 2025-2026/Discuss hiring of part-time help

9. Fall Library Crawl 

A. Bookish Fall Bling Workshop  Sept. 27th

B. One Book/One Nebraska  Oct. 20th

C. Truck Quilt Show  Oct. 25th 1-5 p.m.

D. Book Basket Auction  November ??

10. October library events:

A. Silent Witness  Sept. 29th to Oct. 6th

B. Storytime  October 7th and 21st

C. Book Club:  Oct. 20th with One Book/One Nebraska title “The Long March Home”

D. Truck or Treat on Main Street  October 31st

11. Banned Book Week  October 6-11th

12. Meetings/Workshops

13. Correspondence:

A. Veterans Evaluation Services Mobile Unit  Sept. 26th

B. American Revolution-Ken Burns to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary poster and library display

C. Articles of interest from Library journals and newsletters

14. Set next meeting date

15. Adjournment

Come enjoy crafting with us and leave with something beautiful to display for the season.

Create a beautiful fall decoration using a recycled book and fall florals

Saturday, September 17th at the Ainsworth Public Library

1-3 p.m.

Cost is $10 for supplies.

Call the library at 402-387-2032 to register.

The October Book Club will feature the 2025 One Book One Nebraska title of “The Lone March Home” by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee. Readers will gather on October 20th at 2 p.m. to share thoughts on the books. Stop by the library and pick up a copy to enjoy.

Ainsworth Library is part of the Library Fall Crawl 2025

Twenty-four libraries across the central part of Nebraska are participating in our first ever Library Fall Crawl from September through Sunday, November 30, 2025.  The Crawl is designed to encourage residents of central Nebraska to visit, attend programming and explore the libraries in the Central Plains Library System.   To find programming information at the libraries this fall, go to https://libraries.ne.gov/cpls/fall-crawl. Participating libraries in the KBR area include the Ainsworth Public and the Rock County Library. 

Please stop by the library and pick-up the Library Crawl Passport.  Library patrons will receive stickers and initials on their passports as they visit other participating libraries.  Once you have five stickers from five different libraries, you turn in your passport at the fifth library or at your home library.  The Central Plains Library System will provide 3 prize baskets valued at $250 each.  All  three prize baskets will include the newest model of the Amazon Kindle 16 GB eReader and assorted “cozy” prizes such as fuzzy socks, fleece blanket, mug, hot drink mixes, and candles.  Library Crawl Passport must be mailed to the Central Plans Library Systems no later than December 5th.  The three winners will be announced on December 15, 2025.

Now is the time to get your Library Crawl Passport and visit the libraries in the Central Plains Library System.  See how the libraries are all the same but yet very much different from one another!  

The Ainsworth Public Library will be restarting our regular storytime every other week on Tuesdays from 4-5 p.m. Children may come on September 9th and September 23rd. The topics for September will feature acorns and football. Hope to see your child at the storytime!

SEPTEMBER 10, 2025  at 5 P.M.

AGENDA

1. Call meeting to order

2. Notice of the posting of the Nebraska Open Meeting Act

3. Welcome new member:  Laurie Goodloe

4. Roll Call

5. Public Comment Time

6. Approve minutes of last meeting

7. Approve claims for payment

8. Monthly Library Report/List of Titles Purchased/Request for Book Reading at Nursing   

 Home/Director Sick Leave

9. Update on Budget for 2025/2026

10. Fall Library Crawl and events

11. Christmas events at Library

12. Little Free Library Grant

13. Meeting/Workshops:

A. Library Foundation Board Meeting  August 27th

B. Justice and Sccales Training  August 27th

C. Changes to Nebraska Libraries on the Web  August 27th

14. Correspondence

A. Nebraska’s 2025 Book Award Winners Announced

15. Set next meeting date

16. Adjournment 

The September Book Club title is available now at the Library. We will be discussing the title “The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel James Brown on September 22nd at 2 p.m.. This is an account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. Stop by the library and pick up a copy.