Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to Library Storytime! Join us on Satuday, October 5 at 11 am for some fun on the farm as we share stories, songs and activities featuring our favorite barnyard friends!
The Library is hosting an OPEN HOUSE on Saturday, October 5 from 10am – 1pm at the Aalfs Downtown Library. Drop-in to learn and see all the Library has to offer while enjoying a fun experience for the whole family!
Fresh off of a gutsy, thrilling 2023 Super Bowl win for the Kansas City Chiefs, two inspiring stories that fit perfectly together—a biography of superstar quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, who brought the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl win in fifty years in 2020 as well as a second in 2023, along with the historical struggles and recent resurgence of the former “Paris of the Plains,” Kansas City.
In honor of Library Card Sign Up Month, the Library is hosting our next Trivia Night at Buffalo Alice on Wednesday, September 18 from 6:30-8:30pm! Travel through the decades and see how much pop culture knowledge you know from the 1940s, 80s, or even 2010s!
A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what’s really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins.
Join the Sioux City Public Library and Book People for an Author Talk & Book Signing with Marc Cameron on Tuesday, August 20 at 6pm at the Aalfs Downtown Library. Bestselling author and former U.S. Marshall Marc Cameron will visit the Sioux City Public Library to talk about his latest book in the popular Arliss Cutter thriller series, Bad River. Cameron is also the author of the New York Times Bestselling Tom Clancy Jack Ryan novels and the Jericho Quinn series.
Looking for a new job, career change, or tips on how to ace an interview? Career Cruiser will be at the Morningside Branch Library on Thursday, August 15 from 10 am to 2 pm. It offers resume assistance, job search resources, education and training directly to your community at no charge to the public.
Experience West African stories, poetry, and drumming in this interactive and hands-on presentation featuring Kofi Dennis, Wolf Trap Performing Arts Master Teacher and Drummer. Perfect for preschool and elementary age children and their families. Free and open to everyone!
In this colorful, vanishing world of relish trays and brandy Old Fashioneds, J. Ryan Stradal has once again given us a story full of his signature honest, lovable yet fallible Midwestern characters as they grapple with love, loss, and marriage; what we hold onto and what we leave behind; and what our legacy will be when we are gone.
Naturalists from the Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center are bringing some of their feathered friends to the Aalfs Downtown Library for a meet and greet to celebrate the finale of Adult Summer Reading. You will learn all about these owls and see them for yourself up close!
