The Alliance Public Library strives to offer programming that is educational, informative, cultural and entertaining.
Programs include Nebraska Humanities presentations, an annual Summer Reading celebration, special guest presenters, and more!
APL Book Club
The monthly Book Club meeting will be on Tuesday, April 23rd at 1pm. Books are available for checkout at the circulation desk with a $2.00 postage fee.
Crime after Crime:
True Crime Book Club
Calling all True Crime Enthusiasts! Whether you are just causally interested in true crime or are a full blown Crime Junkie, we want you to come and discuss crime after crime with us. This book club meets on the 3rd Thursday of every month from 5:30 to 6:30pm in the APL Community Room. Our next meeting will be Thursday, April 18th and we will be discussing Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. Stop by the circulation desk to check out a copy for a $2.00 postage fee.
Monday Night Mystery Book Club
Enjoy a good mystery? Our new Monday Night Mystery Book Club might be for you! Please join us on Monday, May 13th at 5:30pm where we will be discussing The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. Books are available to check out at circulation and there is a $2 postage fee.
Art A La Carte: Craft Club
For those looking for clubs that don’t require reading, our new “Art A La Carte” craft club will meet every 3rd Friday from 5:00-6:00pm in the APL Community Room. Members are welcome to bring any craft they are working on and meet with fellow crafters in the community to create and chat. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop. Crafters will supply their own materials and projects for club meetings.
The next meeting is Friday, April 18th at 5:00pm.
A representative from the Nebraska Department of Labor will be at the Library on May 1st, 2024 from 1:00-4:00pm.
Although the greatest peacetime emigration in the history of the world took place across the plains of Nebraska, an astounding number of the emigrants met their end suddenly, unexpectedly, and sometimes violently in the Cornhusker State. In fact, says historian Jeff Barnes, by driving on Nebraska’s Interstate 80 one could say they are driving through the state’s largest and longest cemetery – the Platte River valley.
How those emigrants died is the topic of “To Live and Die on the Plains,” Barnes’s presentation on Thursday, May 2nd, at 6 pm in the Alliance Public Library Community Room. This presentation is made possible by Humanities Nebraska, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and the Alliance Public Library Foundation.
A former newspaper reporter and editor, Barnes writes freelance and lives in Omaha. He is a fifth-generation Nebraskan, past trustee of the Nebraska State Historical Society, former chairperson of the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission, past marketing director of the Durham Museum and present board member of the Union Pacific Museum Association.
For more information, contact nstewart@cityofalliance.net or call 308.762.1387.