Have you ever thought about writing a short story or maybe even a book? Are you curious what that process looks like? Maybe your son or daughter likes to write stories and you’d like to foster that creativity. June 1 and 2 Jim Campain will be at the Stromsburg Public Library to conduct writer’s workshops for two age groups. On June 1, Jim will work with children ages 9 and up from 10 am – noon. On June 2, we open the workshop up to the adults and will meet from 1:30 – 3:00 pm in the library meeting room. Jim is traveling from out of state so we ask that you register for this event by May 26^th to ensure we have enough interest. You can register by contacting the library or through this link.

Jim Campain was born at the Stromsburg hospital and spent part of his childhood on a small farm northeast of town. He attended country school as well as some elementary school in Osceola, NE. He now resides in Fort Collins, CO. Jim has written his first in a series of books for middle grades entitled, The Mysterious Miss Snoddy, available from Amazon. Jim has thirty-five years’ experience working with children, youth and families as a mental health provider.

JULY 31

EDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER’S PORTABLE PLANETARIUM WILL BE IN STROMSBURG!

Four 30 -minute shows will be presented every 45 minutes from 9:00 -11:45 am in the Civic Center (old band room)

Sign – up sheets are available in the library and an online sign up is available – only 25 slots per show

All ages welcome but participants must be able to sit on the floor for 30 minutes.

Provided by the Stromsburg Library Foundation 

and 

Friends of the Stromsburg Public Library

The library will close at 3 pm on Friday, December 23rd and will reopen on Tuesday, December 27 at 12 pm. 

We will be closed January 2 in observance of New Years and will reopen Tuesday, January 3 at 12 pm. 

We are excited to introduce two new services at the Stromsburg Public Library. We have become members of the Central Nebraska Consortium which now gives our patrons access to Zinio for Libraries and OnceClickDigital Audio.

A little information about both services, Zinio for Libraries is a digital magazine service. Very similar to Overdrive, you will be granted access using your library card number. You will then create an account that will enable you to read magazines online or download them to a device. There are more than 100 magazines titles available in current issues or back issues. The magazines are simultaneous usage so that means your favorite magazine is always available. You also don’t have to worry about a magazine disappearing from your device as there are no checkout time restrictions.

OneClickDigital Audio is an online audio book library very similar to OverDrive, except again, you don’t have to worry about placing holds. These titles are also simultaneous use. You select your checkout period at the point of checkout, up to 14 days. It looks like files need to be added to your computer, then transferred to your device, but I’m sure on that.

Dorinda and I have not played around with these services much as yet so we may not be able to answer all your questions, but feel free to start using either of these services by visiting rbdigital.com/centralnebraskane/zinio or centralnebraskane.oneclickdigital.com to set up an account. This account can be linked to both sites for use. It looks like Zinio has user guides and tutorials on their help page and OneClickDigital has FAQ and tutorials. We plan on holding classes for both services after the first of the year.

Please click the link below to our new page!

After – School Snack Time