Step into a world of shimmering snow and magical winter adventures! Bundle up for a snowy good time with chilly stories, giggly rhymes, and frosty fun songs. Complete your snowy time with a cool winter craft to take home!
Get registered for these STEM-themed events (for Ages 4-12) happening at the Aalfs Downtown Library on Saturday, November 28. Ages 4-8 will explore the basics of electrical current and Ages 9-12 will conquer challenges with the Library's Blue Bots.
This session explores a wide-ranging collection of local cases pulled from different decades of Sioux City history. Moving beyond a single theme or time period, the presentation examines murders, mysteries, and shocking crimes that either captivated the community or slowly disappeared from public memory. Some stories may be familiar, others almost forgotten, but each offers a glimpse into the violence, tragedy, and human drama that have woven through Sioux City across generations and the lasting impact these events left behind. Presented by Sarah, Local History Librarian Specialist with the Sioux City Public Library.
Celebrate with us at Dinosaur Storytime! Our prehistoric party will include pterrific books, dino-mite songs, and t-rexcellent activities. After Storytime, make a hatching dinosaur craft and experience our dinosaur sensory bin!
Build healthy habits while developing a love of reading in children. Led by students from Briar Cliff University’s Exercise and Health Sciences program, each session blends storytime with simple movement activities such as hopping, jumping, balancing, and playful games.
In this rich book of essays—“excursions through death,” she calls them—Enriquez travels through North and South America, Europe and Australia, visiting Paris’s catacombs, Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery, New Orleans’s above ground mausoleums, Buenos Aires’s opulent Recoleta, and more. Enriquez investigates each cemetery’s history and architecture, its saints and ghosts, its caretakers and visitors, and, of course, its dead.
Children in grades K-5 are invited to drop-in and practice reading to gentle (and costumed!) canine listeners at the Aalfs Downtown Library!
Hunt Sioux City for codes during this special trick-or-treat challenge for adults! Starting October 1, Look for clues on the Beanstack app (it's the same one we use for our Summer Reading Program) or by joining the challenge at siouxcitylibrary.beanstack.org.
October is HALLOW-READ month! Kids (ages 0-18) can log their reading and earn a prize just for registering and also when you hit your reading goal! Ages 0-5 have a goal of reading 30 books over the course of the month. Ages 6-18 have a goal of reading 5 hours over the course of the month.
This special one-off discussion is in celebration of Banned Books Week (October 4-10, 2026). Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day.