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Tag Archives: National Library Week
Library of Congress Card Catalog Kiosk Project
Happy National Library Week (April 19-26, 2026)!
Earlier this year, the Nebraska Center for the Book, housed in the Nebraska Library Commission, received a special delivery from the Library of Congress (LoC): a vintage LoC card catalog transformed into an informational kiosk to celebrate and explore the many services and programs of our national library.
From their press release: “The Library of Congress has brought 56 card catalog cases out of retirement, transforming them into Library of Congress information kiosks that have been distributed to each state and territory through the Library’s Center for the Book affiliate network. From the Washington State Library in Tumwater, Washington, and the Texas State Library and Archives in Austin, Texas, to the Mayagüez Children’s Library in Puerto Rico and the public libraries in Denver, Colorado; Ames, Iowa; and beyond, the kiosks help remind library patrons – especially during National Library Week (April 19-25) – that the Library of Congress is a library for all..”
“Each card catalog kiosk features signage indicating the card catalog was once in active use at the Library of Congress and explaining its history and original purpose. The front of each drawer includes the name of a Library of Congress service or program. Inside each of the 15 drawers is a card containing a brief description of the featured initiative, along with a QR code leading to the page on the Library’s website that contains more information.”
Read more about the LoC Card Catalog Kiosk project here: https://www.loc.gov/programs/center-for-the-book/card-catalog-kiosks/.
If you are in the downtown Lincoln area, stop by and take a look at our card catalog kiosk in the main entry area of the Nebraska Library Commission. During the month of April 2026, you can also view our display of historical photos, documents, and other items celebrating the Library Commission’s 125th anniversary.
#BookFaceFriday “The Woman in the Library” by Sulari Gentill
Shhhh! This is a #BookFaceFriday!
Happy National Library Week! We pretty much consider every week Library Week, but here’s a special #BookFace just for you. We have curated all the library-themed books into one place, the “Library Love: Stories centered around the library/librarians” collection on Nebraska OverDrive Libraries. One of the titles is “The Woman in the Library” by Sulari Gentill (Poisoned Pen Press, 2022.) This thrilling murder mystery is available as both an eBook and an Audiobook.
“Ned Kelly Award winner Gentill (Crossing the Lines) presents a complex, riveting story within a story. The fictional story of an author writing about another writer with messy, complicated friendships and suspicion is an innovative literary mystery.”
―Library Journal (Starred Review)
Find this title and many more through Nebraska OverDrive! Libraries participating in the Nebraska OverDrive Libraries Group currently have access to a shared and growing collection of digital downloadable audiobooks and eBooks. 189 libraries across the state share the Nebraska OverDrive collection of 21,696 audiobooks, 35,200 eBooks, and 3,964 magazines. As an added bonus it includes 130 podcasts that are always available with simultaneous use (SU), as well as SU ebooks and audiobook titles that publishers have made available for a limited time. If you’re a part of it, let your users know about this great title, and if you’re not a member yet, find more information about participating in Nebraska Overdrive Libraries!
Love this #BookFace & reading? Check out our past #BookFaceFriday photos on the Nebraska Library Commission’s Facebook page!
#BookFaceFriday “Public Library and Other Stories”
O magic place it was — still open thank God.
-Alexandra Harris
What could be more appropriate than this week’s #BookFaceFriday highlighting National Library Week! Celebrate with “Public Library and Other Stories” by Ali Smith (Anchor, 2016). Libraries = Strong Communities is this year’s theme and nothing could be truer. What can you do to help your community celebrate? Get out to your library, sign up for a library card, tell someone what you love about your library, and tell your local library staff how much you appreciate them! It’s that easy. This book is a part of our NLC Book Club Kit collection, and is a great read!
Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we’ve read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?
The stories in Ali Smith’s new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make. — book jacket
This week’s #BookFace model is NLC’s Talking Book & Braille Service Audio Production Studio Manager, Gabe Kramer! He is the only one we could talk into laying on the sidewalk outside the office, so he deserves an extra high-five this week.
Love this #BookFace & reading? We suggest checking out all the titles available for book clubs at http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ref/bookclub. Check out our past #BookFaceFriday photos on the Nebraska Library Commission’s Facebook page!
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Tagged Ali Smith, Book Covers, bookface, bookfacefriday, books, National Library Week, public Library, Reading, Short Stories
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