Banned Book Week

September 25th – October 2nd we celebrate Banned Book Week.  This is an annual event to celebrate our freedom to read what we wish and to remind us the importance of the First Amendment.   Many people try to restrict what you  read or hear  because of their beliefs.  Intellectual freedom…

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Nebraska Library Commission and 147 Library Buildings to Share in a $3.6 Million Grant

The Nebraska Library Commission announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded the Library Commission a $2,416,403 grant to fund Nebraska’s public computer center project, Library Broadband Builds Nebraska Communities. The three-year project is designed to expand broadband capacity; upgrade public computing resources in libraries; and advance access to…

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Every Child Ready To Read @your library

“Current research on early literacy and brain development indicates that it is never too early to prepare children for success as readers. Parents of newborns, toddlers and preschoolers must be informed of their critical role as their children’s first teacher.”    read more http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/ecrr/index.cfm This is a quote from an article…

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Literary Criticisms

Thanks to the Bellevue University Library we now have close to 200 volumes of Twentieth Century Literary Criticisms and ContemporaryLiterary Criticisms.  Last year the North Platte Public Library  gave us 420 volumes of Contempory Authors and Something About An Author. So when you get ready for that term paper or college paper we…

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