School may be out for the summer, but learning happens year-round with your Omaha Public Library (OPL) card! OPL's Gale Courses subscription offers patrons the opportunity to sign up for interactive six-week online classes that are led by real instructors. Courses cover a wide range of subjects, including accounting and finance, college readiness, design and…
Volunteer Spotlight: Sheila Caffrey
Growing up in Columbus, Nebraska, Sheila Caffrey walked to the local library with her girlfriends and grew into a voracious reader. These days she “devours books,” mainly fiction and mysteries, and her local library, now OPL’s Saddlebrook Branch, still serves as a catalyst for her reading. Caffrey has been a Saddlebrook Branch patron since it…
Zines are back at Benson Branch and Main Library
Zines are niche, handmade, hyper-local booklets created by community members for community members. Omaha Public Library is excited to reintroduce this collection at Benson Branch and W. Dale Clark Main Library! Zines do not check out in the same way as many other library materials. Patrons are encouraged to read zines at the library, take…
Partner Spotlight: Douglas/Sarpy County Master Gardeners
Most Thursday mornings during Omaha’s growing season, members of the Nebraska Master Gardener program can be found at W. Clarke Swanson Branch tending the garden beds in between the branch’s two parking lots. The group adopted the site in 2000, and chose to work Thursday mornings because it overlapped with the Friends of Omaha Public…
Staff Spotlight: Katy Lofgren
Early in OPL’s six-month closure in 2020, Katy Lofgren, youth services librarian at Saddlebrook Branch, and a team of her colleagues, set out to reconnect with families who were now unexpectedly spending more time at home by offering online storytimes. After researching best practices and tools, the team launched the digital venture in June 2020…
OPL Resources for Young Professionals
Omaha's YP Summit is going virtual for two days this year on March 4-5, with a focus on metamorphosis. This year's summit will help attendees "understand the power of transformation, big and small," according to its website. With this theme in mind, it's a great time to remind Omaha-area YPs about the many professional and…
Staff Spotlight: Farhana Husain
Farhana Husain first applied to be a clerk at OPL in 2013. Husain didn’t have any training or experience working at a library, but left Branch Manager Marvel Maring with such a strong positive impression during her interview that Maring said she was ready to fight to get Husain on her staff. “I knew that…
Volunteer Spotlight: Sarah Abrahamson
Having grown up in Omaha, Sarah Abrahamson has frequented OPL since she was a child. Raised in a family of readers, she and her brother visited A.V. Sorensen and Milton R. Abrahams Branches, and browsed the stacks for books to take home and enjoy, but W. Dale Clark Main Library was always her favorite branch…
Partner Spotlight: Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility
In January 2020, OPL began a partnership with the Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility (NCYF) to start a book club with the young men at the facility. NCYF is a facility designed for male offenders under 21 years, 10 months of age, who were adjudicated as adults. OPL Outreach Specialist Maggie Petersen was advised that the…
2020 Summer Reading Program Wrap Up
This year’s Summer Reading Program (SRP) looked a little different than usual at OPL. The SRP theme was “Imagine Your Story,” and with libraries closed all summer, a healthy dose of imagination was certainly helpful, as SRP took place largely online. As always, all ages were invited to read or listen to a book for…
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