Category: Library Events

The Wright Morris Walking/Driving Tour is one of 80 attractions included in the 2013 Nebraska Passport.  Stop by the Central City Public Library or the Merrick County Historical Museum to begin your adventure!

The program, created by the Nebraska Tourism Commission, encourages travelers to explore Nebraska. Participants collect stamps from participating attractions and then redeem them for prizes.

Attractions selected for the 2013 program are organized into 10 special-interest tours: Hit the Hot Spots, Meet the Locals, Picture the Scene, Play Outside, Savor the Flavor, Seeing Is Believing, Sleep Tight, Tap Into It, Turn the Page and Wrangle the West.  Wright Morris Walking/Driving Tour is part of Turn the Page.

Travelers have until Sept. 30 to visit attractions and redeem their stamps for prizes. For each completed tour, participants receive a Nebraska Passport T-shirt. In addition, travelers can win 20 $1 Nebraska Lottery Scratch coupons (for 20 stamps) and a digital camera (for 40 stamps).

Participants also have the chance to be entered into a grand-prize drawing (held in October) for an Apple® iPad® mini valued at approximately $600. An additional drawing for 300 $1 Nebraska Lottery Scratch tickets will be held for all participants 19 years of age or older who turn in passports with at least one stamp.

To learn more about this year’s Nebraska Passport, visit NebraskaPassport.com.

Congratulations to Sandi Kennec! She is the winner of the gift basket in our National Library Week drawing. Thank-you to everyone who registered! 🙂 — at Central City Public Library.

The library is hosting FREE computer classes in May (coordinated by Central Community College-Columbus)! Class sizes are limited! Call now to pre-register! (946-2512)

Congratulations to our “Trash to Treasure Challenge” winners! Judge’s Choice Awards go to: Jamie Wright (Rock Box), Becky Freeland (Flower Plaque), and Linda Schulze (Candle Holder). People’s Choice Awards go to: Julie Smithson (Windchime) and Kelly Smithson (Lamp/Book).
Thank-you to everyone that participated! 🙂 — at Central City Public Library.

In celebration of National Library Week (April 15-April 20), the library will be having a drawing for a gift basket! Items included in the gift basket are: the best selling book “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks, and the 2 winner Academy Awards “Lincoln” DVD (a Steven Spielberg film)! Be sure to stop in all during this week and get registered!

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

There’s still time to get your “Blind Date With a Book~ Rate Your Date” registration slips in. Please them turn in by March 1, to be entered into the drawing for the dinner for two to the Lincoln Manor Steak House. 🙂 — at Central City Public Library.

Tired of your same old relationships?  Need something new and exciting?  During the entire month of February stop by the library for a mysterious rendezvous.  We’d like to fix you up with a blind date (with a book of course); after all we are a library! We’ll select a variety of books, wrap them up in plain brown paper (no peeking) and you won’t know the “identity” of your blind date until you get it home.  Will it be fiction or non-fiction, a mystery, biography, or a cookbook?  Funny, heart-breaking or informative?  Sure, you may be disappointed; then again… you may end up really enjoying something you may not otherwise have chosen for yourself.

Each book will have a “Rate Your Date” slip.  If you are so inclined, say whatever you want about your date (even if your date was a dud- don’t worry, its feelings won’t be hurt).  With each slip you return, you can enter a drawing to win dinner for two at the Lincoln Manor Steak House in Central City.  So, be sure to stop by the library anytime between February 1 and 28.  Who knows, you might get lucky; if not in love then perhaps in literature?