Category: Library Events

Learn how to etch glass with ease at the October Pinterest Party at the library!

Join us each month at the library to learn a project from Pinterest!

To see what’s planned each month visit the library, check this website,

our Facebook page www.facebook.com/centralcitypubliclibrary or

our Pinterest page www.pinterest.com/centralcitypl

If possible, please contact the library to let them know you’ll be coming by the Friday before.  Some classes will have a fee.  If you have ideas for Pinterest projects, please bring them to a monthly Pinterest gathering. 🙂

So you can be planning ahead to November..  here is the information on November’s “Vinyl Decor”  project! 🙂

Just in today… “The Number One Ladies Detective Agency” books (for the October 11th special mystery reading event at the library at 7:00 p.m.)!  Be sure to stop in and check out a copy!  Anyone who enjoys mysteries is welcome to participate. 🙂

We’re on our Winter Hours now—

Monday –Thursday 10 AM – 8 PM; Friday 10 AM – 6 PM, and Saturday 10 AM – 2 PM.

You have more hours to be able to stop in and check out our newest books, use our computers, get help with your Kindle or other e-books, get more booksyou’re your children for Reading Counts at the CCPS, use our Cricut machine, and a host of other things to do at the library.

October is National Reading Group Month, and the Central City Public Library is going to feature a special reading event for people who love mysteries.  The library is borrowing 16 copies of the book “The Number One Ladies Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith.  These copies will be available for people to check out and read  after September 12.   There will be a book discussion/mystery event on Thursday, October 11, at 7 PM in the meeting room. This series is about a lady detective in Botswana, Africa, today, although it could be happening right around the corner as well.  She and her secretary/assistant are the main characters and they are a fun study in character.  The discussion will center around the way the author depicts the characters and setting, and how this kind of mystery differs from the “hard-core” detective stories.  Join us for some refreshments as we take a look at a different kind of mystery series.  Stop in and reserve a  book today.  We’ll give you a call as soon as they arrive.

Tuesday, July 17th at 9:30 p.m., the library is having a “Family Star-Gazing Night” event at the Central City High School Stadium.  Be sure to come and look at the skies through a large telescope and sky binoculars!  Ross Dinwiddie will also be guiding everyone’s view of the stars.  Everyone is invited.  Should be very interesting! 🙂

Diane Bartels will present a program “Sharpie:  Nebraska’s Queen of the Air” on Tuesday, July 3^rd at 10:00 a.m. at the Central City Public Library.  This presentation is made possible by the Nebraska Humanities Council, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment and the Central City Public Library as part of the NHC Speakers Bureau.

Come and hear all about Evelyn Sharp, a pioneering, teenaged aviatrix who became a war hero.  Sharp taught men to fly and was one of the first women to ferry US Army Air Force fighters during WWII, freeing men for combat.

“Sharpie:  Nebraska’s Queen of the Air” is one of approximately 300 programs offered through the Nebraska Humanities Council Speakers Bureau.  The more than 165 available speakers include acclaimed scholars, writers, musicians, storytellers, and folklorists on topics ranging from pioneer heritage to ethics and law to international and multicultural issues, making it the largest humanities speaker’s bureau in the nation.  Speakers are available to any non-profit organization in Nebraska.  Each program lasts 30 minutes to an hour, plus a question-and-answer period.  For more information detailing available speakers and guidelines for booking them, please access the following website:  www.nebraskahumanities.org