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Winner(s) of an Autographed Copy of James & Susan Patterson’s New Book!
As announced previously, the System has an autographed copy of James & Susan Patterson’s new book, Things I Wish I Told My Mother. We had an overwhelming number of responses….43 in total! So what did we do? We decided to give away not just one but TWO AUTOGRAPHED COPIES of the book!
…..And the winning libraries are….
Hoesch Public Library in Alma and Sargent Public Library!
Congratulations to these libraries! And a huge thank you to all who entered!
CPLS Month of Weeding is a Big Success!
The Central Plains Library System’s Month of Weeding is done for this year. It was successful for all that participated. We had 2 school libraries and 8 public libraries turn in their weeding reports and several more that indicated they would be weeding. Based on what we heard, nearly 2,100 items were taken off the shelves to make room for newer and better resources.
Together, our libraries weeded pretty evenly across all types of materials. Some of the funniest titles came from the nonfiction area:
- Science Experiments You Can Eat, c1972
- America Was Like This (not checked out since 1969)
- Microwave Food Fun, c1987 (for children)
- Customs and Rituals of Alcohol, c1988
- Think Metric! c1972
- Creative Film-Making, c1958
- New Adventures of Alice, c1917
Here are a few quotations:
- The Nancy Drew paperbacks’ pages were yellow and brittle. They needed to go a while ago!
- I hated to weed Jason Reynolds’ All American Boys, but it hadn’t been checked out in over 5 years. ☹
- There weren’t a lot of food safety concerns in 1987!
- I took out 5 shelves of reference books today…so outdated.
- We aren’t finished in the audio section but making a good dent!
- Looks better!
We held a random drawing for a $100 Amazon Gift Card from all the libraries that notified the System Office that they were participating.
…And the Winner is Indianola Public Library. Congratulations, Katie!
Latest Edition of Plain Speaking (April/May 2023)
CPLS Annual Meeting to be Monumental
The Central Plains Library System will be hosting their FIRST EVER Virtual Annual Meeting via Zoom! We might not be able to get together in person, but that will not stop us from celebrating all that has been accomplished this past year, despite a pandemic, as well as look forward to what the future holds!
FRIDAY, JULY 10th, 2020
11am CPLS Board Meeting Begins
12:30 – 1pm Lunch
1:00-1:30pm CPLS Annual Meeting
1:30pm Virtual Tours
**Museum of Nebraska Major League Baseball
**Loup River Distilling
To register for this event, please click here. Zoom meeting invitations will be sent the week of the meeting. We look forward to “seeing” all of you there!