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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.
Harry Truman’s Adorable Love “List” to His Wife, Bess | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine.
February is a great month to read up on our U.S. Presidents! Some of the books we have available for checkout include: Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard’s “Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot”, “His Excellency: George Washington” by Joseph J. Ellis, “Lincoln’s War” by Geoffrey Perret, & “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House” by Jon Meacham
The library was recently awarded a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation for the purchase of 2 Nook eReaders for the children’s area. The grant also included funding for 25 eStories by exciting new children’s authors. The stories are high interest but with a little easier vocabulary. All levels of readers will enjoy using the Nooks, but reluctant readers will find it easy to read and it is in a very modern format. Each of the devices have different stories loaded onto them, and the checkout period is for two weeks. Ask at the front desk for more info. and to see if one is available to check out. — 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?