Recipes Wanted!

Our Friends of the Library are collecting recipes for a community recipe book and we need your favorites! We encourage you to look up grandma’s old recipe and one of your current recipes. Small anecdotes may be included with each submission. You can make a copy of your recipe at…

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PJ Story Time

National Library Week will begin on April 18th at 7 PM with PJ Story Time! Kids and their families are welcome to wear their PJ’s to the library, hear a sweet story and get a bedtime snack. Kids can also bring their stuffed animals and have them spend the night….

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Teen Advisory Board

Our Teen Advisory Board met before the Christmas break to appoint officers and to start planning for next year. Once those housekeeping issues were done, pizza and shenanigans were had by all. This group helps the librarians make decisions about programming and purchases geared to their age group. If you…

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Mad Science Mondays

Mad Science Mondays are back. In collaboration with UNL Extension Educators, kids will create their own snacks and focus on the science of food. Space is very limited! Call or email to save your child’s spot. This is free and open to children ages 8 and up.

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Summer Reading Finale

This year’s Summer Reading Finale was held at the South Park Walking Trail. Kids and parents “read” the book Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena. Participants were instructed to twirl, hopscotch, flip a pancake  or complete other activities as they moved from page to page. Root…

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Summer Reading Winners

Summer Reading Winners Announced! Kylee was our top participant in JH/Highschool. Emma read 4,805 pages, Easton read 4,528 pages and Molly read a whopping 11,338 pages this summer! Overall our participants read over 63,000 pages this summer!

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Libraries Transform

Help us Celebrate National Library Week!   We’re offering the following: April 11th:  Facebook 101. Need help with Facebook? Join one of our free training sessions. Morning session is 10 AM-Noon. Afternoon session is 1-3PM. Class size is limited. Call the library to register. April 12th:  Lego Club for Everybody:  APS’s Kin-8th…

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Genealogical Research Tools

The digitized archives of the Arapahoe Mirror along with various editions of newspapers from Holbrook and Edison are once again available to researchers for their personal use anywhere they have internet access. The years from 1879 through the year 2000 may be accessed at http://arapahoene.advantage-preservation.com/ Patrons may visit the library…

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New to Overdrive?

Does your child need to read a book and take an AR test? Are you traveling somewhere and want to listen to a new audio book? Or maybe you just want to try something different that we don’t carry on our shelves? Try Overdrive! If you have an electronic device…

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