Year in Review
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Centennial Web Page Unveiled | ||
The Nebraska Library Commission will celebrate our 100th anniversary in 2001. In honor of the Library Commission Centennial, the Commission launched the Centennial Web Site, Libraries for the Centuries, beginning with Pre-1900 and 1900-1909. Each month a new decade is unveiled. Information includes historical photos, documents, and a timeline of key Nebraska library-related events. Maggie Harding worked with the Nebraska Library Commission for more than a year to organize the Commission archives, record oral histories from current and former Commission staff, and write the Web text. |
See the Library Commission home page at nlc.nebraska.gov and click on the Centennial button for history by the decades. Upcoming activities include a speaker series, a historical display, and a project to involve local libraries celebrating their own local history. For more information contact Mary Jo Ryan, 402-471-3434, 800-307-2665, e-mail: Mary Jo Ryan. |
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Motion Picture Video License Renewed | ||
The Library Commission renewed a statewide Motion Picture Video License for all 275 public libraries in Nebraska for July 1, 1999 through June 30, 2000, at no charge to public libraries. With this license, libraries showed motion pictures in the library facility and took advantage of numerous programming opportunities. |
All terms and conditions of the previous license remained in effect for the renewed license.
Nebraska libraries used motion pictures in activities like Summer Reading Programs, Children's Story Hour, Book Discussion Groups, Senior Citizen Programs, Educational or Cultural Programs, and Film Festivals. |
"Thank you so much for the statewide motion picture licenses we are especially appreciative of it here in Beatrice because it allows us to show the movies of our hometown star, Robert Taylor." Laureen Riedesel, |
Summer Reading Program | ||
 Nebraska children enjoyed games, excursions, special events, and reading last summer through participation in the statewide summer reading program. The 1999 summer theme, Treasure Your Library, encouraged children to read, to maintain their reading skills during the months without formal reading instruction, and to return to the classroom more ready to learn. |
Virtually every Nebraska community with a public library offers a summer reading program, lasting from one week to two months. Many schools are now offering summer reading programs as well. Children may earn a certificate of recognition for their participation in the summer program, however many of the libraries involved do not give certificates, preferring instead to emphasize reading as a satisfying pastime, rather than another source of pressure to achieve. |
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