Gering Public Library
Building a Destination for Generations
Library Hours:
| Monday-Thursday | 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
| Sunday | CLOSED |
Recent Posts
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Read more: Organizing Books
Librarians like to organize things. Because our library is organized, we can easily find the one book you want in our collection of some 32,000 items. If a book is […]
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Read more: Shirley Weihing
An alert reader gave me several column ideas, even hinting that she herself would be a good topic for one of my columns. The Gering Library recently acquired some podcasting […]
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Read more: Thomas Jefferson’s Contributions to The Library of Congress
In 1783, James Madison suggested the idea of developing a congressional library at the new capital Washington City. Before that, the capital was located in Philadelphia and New York City. […]
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Read more: Access
written by Sherry Preston, Adult Engagement Librarian My stepdad Bill had a stroke in 2012 that left him partially paralyzed and in a wheelchair. My mother, who was in her […]
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Read more: Indigenous Peoples Day
On October 14th, the United States celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day (held on the same day as Columbus Day). Indigenous Peoples Day was first celebrated in 1992 in the city of […]
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Read more: History of US Public Libraries III
Here is where the title of “oldest public library in the US” starts getting into semantics. One library claims the title of oldest building, and another claims oldest building constructed to be a library, and so on. Some libraries started out as subscription libraries while others were open to the public from the beginning. Another…
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Gering Public Library
1055 P Street
Gering, Nebraska 69341
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