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Happy National Library Week! (April 6 – 12)

National Library Week is a time to celebrate libraries, the contributions of library workers, and to promote library use and support. The theme for National Library Week 2025 is “Drawn to the Library." During this week take time to discover (or re-discover) what draws people into the library! Visit the library and bring your friends or family along. Encourage a friend to get a library card—it’s a simple act that opens up a world of opportunity. Browse the shelves, join a book club, or attend a storytime. Libraries connect us to ideas, information, and each other—and they’re built for everyone.

April’s Open Book Club: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

The great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke’s life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them.

Monday Matinee @ Morningside: April 7 at 1 pm

Look for a different movie every Monday at 1 pm through Memorial Day! April 7th Movie: This 1971 film (Rated R) is set in 1951, and tells the story of a group of high schoolers who are coming of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Upcoming Events

Monday Matinee at Morningside

  • Oct 13, 1 PM
  • Garretson Room, Morningside Branch Library

Library Storytime at Perry Creek Branch

  • Oct 14, 11 AM
  • Perry Creek Branch Library

Library Storytime at Morningside Branch

  • Oct 15, 10:30 AM
  • Garretson Room, Morningside Branch Library

Library Board Meeting

  • Oct 15, 3:30 PM
  • Gleeson Room, Aalfs Downtown Library

Baby Storytime

  • Oct 18, 9:30 AM
  • Aalfs Downtown Library

Monday Matinee at Morningside

  • Oct 20, 1 PM
  • Garretson Room, Morningside Branch Library

Library Storytime at Perry Creek Branch

  • Oct 21, 11 AM
  • Perry Creek Branch Library

Sioux City True Crime: A Century of Suspicion

  • Oct 21, 6 PM
  • Gleeson Room, Aalfs Downtown Library

    Kids & Teens

    Locations:

    Aalfs Downtown Library

    529 Pierce Street
    712-255-2933
    Monday – Wednesday 9am – 8pm
    Thursday – Saturday 9am – 5pm
    Sunday (Sept – May) 1pm – 5pm
    Click here for a virtual tour!

    Free parking on weekends and after 5pm on weekdays

    Morningside Branch Library

    4005 Morningside Avenue
    712-255-2924
    Monday – Wednesday 10am – 6pm
    Thursday – Friday 10am – 5pm
    Saturday 9am – 5pm
    Click here for a virtual tour!

    Perry Creek Branch Library

    2912 Hamilton Boulevard
    Plaza Professional Center, Lower B
    712-255-2926
    Monday – Friday 10:30am – 5:30pm

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