Month: March 2013

You still have time to participate in our “Trash to Treasure” challenge! Stop by the library and pick up one of our “trash” bags (containing various mystery items). You must use at least a piece of every item in the bag. You can make anything you want (finding inspiration anywhere). Completed items must be returned to the library by April 1! Prizes will be awarded to People’s Choice and Judges’ Choice winners!

Be sure to mark your calendars, for our Open House, coming up on Saturday, April 6 (10:00 am – 1:00 pm)!  Featured at the Open House:  new technology items received through the “Library Broadband Builds Nebraska Communities Project”.  Special Remarks will begin at 10:45 am.  Program at 11:00~ Poetry Readings by Kwame Dawes & Marianne Kunkel (University of NE, Lincoln’s International Literary Journal:  Prairie Schooner Library Tour). —

Kwame Dawes, Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, embarked on a driving tour in December 2012 to promote Prairie Schooner in public libraries across the state of Nebraska. Dawes is Editor-in-Chief of the international literary journal based out of the University of Nebraska. He will be joined by poet and managing editor, Marianne Kunkel.

Congratulations to Sylvia Erickson!  She is the winner of the “Blind Date With a Book”, dinner for two, to the Lincoln Manor Steak House.  According to the “Rate Your Date” slips, most of the “dates” with the books were enjoyed by the participants.   We heard feedback from quite a few people that they were exposed to types of books/authors that they would otherwise not have read (if they had not participated). Thanks to everyone that participated! — at Central City Public Library