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Friday Reads: After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn
This year’s Summer Reading Program is “Every Hero Has a Story” (or “Escape the Ordinary” for us older folks). After the Golden Age caught my eye as I passed a display of hero- themed books at my local...
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Friday Reads: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
I’m not sure I consider myself a child of the 80s, but I’m certainly old enough to appreciate the vast majority of the pop culture references in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. From Ferris Bueller to...
View ArticleNew Makerspace Page!
Check out the Nebraska Library Commission’s newest page: Creative, Innovative, and MakerSpaces in Nebraska! Here we list Nebraska libraries that have purchased 3D printers, as well as public and...
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Friday Reads: My 2015 Reading Challenge
For 2015 I set a personal reading challenge of 120 books. It seemed like an attainable goal; in 2014 I completed 100 books, and I read for the Golden Sower Awards voting committee, so I go through a...
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Friday Reads: How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the...
How do you listen to music nowadays? Do you still buy CDs? (…did you ever buy CDs? I might be showing my age here…), download digital files, use a streaming service online? Did you ever wonder how...
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Adopt a book!
The Library Commission has a range of books that are looking for a good home. There are volumes of Nebraska history, poetry books, library science texts, reference works, titles by local authors, and...
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Friday Reads: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
You may be familiar with Elizabeth Bennett and her sisters Jane, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia; their mother desperate to make them good matches, and their father smart enough to try to stay out of the way....
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Friday Reads: Bloody Jack, Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary...
I made a new friend this summer. Jacky Faber is many things – fierce pirate, skilled sailor, cunning thief, loyal friend, talented musician, and… a girl. Mary “Jacky” Faber is left on the streets of...
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Friday Reads: The Fireman by Joe Hill
A fast-moving plague has set the world ablaze, quite literally. The “Dragonscale” spore marks its hosts with intricate tattoo-like patterns, which just happen to also cause them to spontaneously...
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It’s #bookfacefriday!
If you’re on social media (Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter) and interested in libraries, you may have come across the hashtags #bookface or #bookfacefriday. According to the New York Times “bookface...
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Friday Reads: Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson
I am a boy-mom. (Or at least I was until we welcomed a baby girl into our house almost 2 years ago. 2?!? How is she almost 2? Wait… where was I? Ah, yes, boys.) I am inclined to fall in love with...
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Friday Reads: Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
I first encountered Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s work when I was shopping for a baby book, back in those pre-kid days when I could still leisurely shop. The pale yellow book I chose was quirky and funny,...
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Friday Reads: Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan
While my summer reading list was often full of nonfiction, despairing memoirs, and dystopian nightmare scenarios, sometimes I just need to escape into a quick summer beach read. In this case, my...
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Friday Reads: The Dirty Life by Kristen Kimball
I have a secret obsession with farming. I have no delusions that I could actual be a farmer -I keep a small garden in the summer months, but I’m not a morning person, and prefer to keep my fingernails...
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Friday Reads: A Year in Review
The NLC staff have done a lot of reading this year! We wanted to take a look at all the great books we’ve reviewed in 2017. You might be familiar with our weekly blog series Friday Reads; every Friday,...
View ArticleTracking our reading: a conversation
Here at the Nebraska Library Commission, we talk about books A LOT. Surprised? Nah, we aren’t either. Last week, Lisa Kelly and I chatted with our Online Services Librarian, Susan Kniseley, about our...
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Friday Reads: Greetings From Witness Protection by Jake Burt
Do you ever dream about starting over? Leaving your old life behind, assuming a new identity and becoming a whole other person? Elena Sicurezza was a lawyer for a notorious crime family, the...
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Behind the Scenes of #BookFaceFriday
Crafting our weekly #BookFaceFriday series this past year has been a blast! We’ve posted before about our bookface photos highlighting the Nebraska 150 book list, and we’ve since expanded into our book...
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Friday Reads: Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
All 5-year-old Mike wanted from life was to go to Disney World. One day, his dad packed him in the car, drove him to an abandoned shipyard, and told him that The Happiest Place on Earth must have...
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#BookFaceFriday –“Pope Joan”
#BookFace– the woman, the myth, the legend! “For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man...
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