Library Commission News & Announcements
Join us for next week's NCompass Live, "Tech Talk with Michael Sauers: CES & Libraries 2015", on Wednesday, January 28, 10:00-11:00 am Central Time...
The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy and home of the iconic Bram Stoker Awards®, today announced Jack Ketchum and Tanith Lee as the 2015 recipients of the Bram Stoker Award® for Lifetime Achievement...
Two Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries are given annually - the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Growth Grant will provide support to a library that would like to expand its existing graphic novel services and programs and the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Innovation Grant will provides support to a library for the initiation of a graphic novel service, program or initiative...
The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s Nebraska. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A "homesman" must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium...
Nebraska Public Library Commission bookmobile delivering books to school district 62 children, circa 1930's...
State government publications ranging from Agriculture to University of Nebraska Press, received November and December, 2014...
For this week, the Dude takes another quick look at eBooks and Audiobooks. He's been working on some handouts and fact sheets for the Nebraska eReads program, and here is one of the resultant charts...
