Elvira: A Mexican Immigrant Woman, Book Signing Event, June 30, 2018 Former Scottsbluff resident, Eduardo Hernandez Chávezas, will be in town and available at the West Nebraska Family Research & History Center on Saturday, June 30th at 10:00am to sign and discuss his book, Elvira: A Mexican Immigrant Woman. The…
The new July/August 2018 Newsletter is now available. You can access it by clicking on the Western Sun in the right hand menu or by clicking on the following link: http://nlc.nebraska.gov/systems/NewsLetters/wls07082018.pdf
In late 2017, it was announced that Legacy of the Plains Museum was chosen to host the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibit called Water Ways. This exhibit will come to Gering on February 23 and be on display until April 7, 2019. This exhibit explores the role of…
Join a WLS Committee to help plan and develop activities and services for 2018/2019 Annual Meeting Committee: This committee plans speakers, activities, and agenda for the WLS annual meeting. Tech Committee: This committee recommends workshops or other leading opportunities based on priorities from surveys, program evaluations, and suggestions…
Attention Readers! We have just added 12 copies of “if I stay” to our book sets for check out. This is a simultaneously tragic and hopeful, romantic, riveting, and ultimately uplifting story about memory, music, living, dying and loving. A good read for your Book Clubs. Contact the WLS office…
Unfortunately, it is with a heavy heart that I must leave my position as the Director of the Western Library System. This past year has provided me with many wonderful experiences working with the talented librarians and directors from all around the 21 western Nebraska counties. I am very appreciative…
Would you like to entice all of your library detectives to participate in a real life “sleuthing” game night? Do your afterschool patrons enjoy solving a good mystery? Do your mystery readers want to advance their detective skills up to the next level? The Western Library System now offers…
http://libraries.ne.gov/cpls/files/2017/09/2018-2019-Nominees-with-Header-Footer.pdf
Young readers in grades 4-12 are invited to write a personal letter to an author for the Letters about Literature (LAL) contest, a national reading and writing promotion program. The letter can be to any author (living or dead) from any genre—fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic—explaining how that author’s…
2017 Celebration of Nebraska Books • Saturday, October 21, 2017; 2:30 – 6:30 p.m. Nebraska History Museum 131 Centennial Mall North, Lincoln, NE The celebration, free and open to the public, features presentations of the Nebraska Center for the Book’s Nebraska Book Awards, Mildred Bennett Award and Jane Geske…
