OPL offers year-round opportunities to begin or continue researching family history using its extensive genealogy resources, such as MyHeritage, Ancestry Library Edition, Omaha Star Digital Archives, and the Gilbert M. and Martha H. Hitchcock Omaha World-Herald Digital Archive. “There are so many resources available at the library for discovering one’s family history,” said Genealogy and…
Bennington High School Students Visit Main Library
Bennington High School students taking Historical Literature wrapped up their semester with a field trip to W. Dale Clark Main Library on December 21, 2016. Their teacher, Chris Grinvalds, said that one of the students who spends a lot of time at the library suggested they visit to get a first-hand look at local historical…
Cuneiform Tablets
Buried in the archive room of the W. Dale Clark Library are over 100 cuneiform tablets. Originally collected by Edgar J. Banks, Ph.D, and presented to Omaha Public Library by Charles N. Dietz in 1917, these tablets came from sites in the Middle East, an area which from ancient times has been a crossroads of…
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