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Happy National Library Week! (April 6 – 12)

National Library Week is a time to celebrate libraries, the contributions of library workers, and to promote library use and support. The theme for National Library Week 2025 is “Drawn to the Library." During this week take time to discover (or re-discover) what draws people into the library! Visit the library and bring your friends or family along. Encourage a friend to get a library card—it’s a simple act that opens up a world of opportunity. Browse the shelves, join a book club, or attend a storytime. Libraries connect us to ideas, information, and each other—and they’re built for everyone.

April’s Open Book Club: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

The great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke’s life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them.

Monday Matinee @ Morningside: April 7 at 1 pm

Look for a different movie every Monday at 1 pm through Memorial Day! April 7th Movie: This 1971 film (Rated R) is set in 1951, and tells the story of a group of high schoolers who are coming of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Upcoming Events

Baby Storytime!

  • Apr 26, 9:30 AM
  • Aalfs Downtown Library

Coding Storytime featuring Bee Bots! (Ages 3-7)

  • Apr 26, 11 AM
  • Aalfs Downtown Library

Robo Wunderkind (For Ages 8-12)

  • Apr 26, 11 AM
  • Aalfs Downtown Library

Monday Matinee at Morningside

  • Apr 28, 1 PM
  • Garretson Room, Morningside Branch Library

Library Storytime at Perry Creek Branch

  • Apr 29, 11 AM
  • Perry Creek Branch Library

Library Storytime at Morningside Branch

  • Apr 30, 10:30 AM
  • Garretson Room, Morningside Branch Library

1st Saturday Family Storytime: We Can Build It!

  • May 3, 11 AM
  • Gleeson Room, Aalfs Downtown Library

Open Book Club at Morningside

  • May 5, 10 AM
  • Garretson Room, Morningside Branch Library

Monday Matinee at Morningside

  • May 5, 1 PM
  • Garretson Room, Morningside Branch Library

Kids & Teens

Locations:

Aalfs Downtown Library

529 Pierce Street
712-255-2933
Monday – Wednesday 9am – 8pm
Thursday – Saturday 9am – 5pm
Sunday (Sept – May) 1pm – 5pm
Click here for a virtual tour!

Free parking on weekends and after 5pm on weekdays

Morningside Branch Library

4005 Morningside Avenue
712-255-2924
Monday – Wednesday 10am – 6pm
Thursday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Saturday 9am – 5pm
Click here for a virtual tour!

Perry Creek Branch Library

2912 Hamilton Boulevard
Plaza Professional Center, Lower B
712-255-2926
Monday – Friday 10:30am – 5:30pm

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