What's New at BPL

Now you can learn a language online. As a new service, Bellevue Public Library is offering the Mango online language learning system to its patrons. Choose between 22 foreign language courses and/or 14 ESL skill sets. All you need is access to the Internet. Click on the Online Resources tab above and look for the Mango link to get started.

Bellevue Public Library has expanded its download collection with the addition of eBooks at Nebraska Overdrive. This is in addition to the audio book download service already available. Now from the comfort of home, card holders can browse the collection, check out and download eBooks to play on compatible, popular e-reading devices. Bellevue Public Library partners with OverDrive Inc. and the Nebraska Library Commission to offer this service. Click on the link at left to get started.

The Friends of the Bellevue Public Library will sponsor a special Scholastic Book Fair at the library July 24-28. The fair kicks off on Saturday, July 24, from 12 Noon to 4 p.m. While browsing for books, come enjoy the fun, cookies, lemonade and prizes! The remainder of the book fair hours are as follows: July 25, 12 Noon to 4 p.m.; July 26 and 27, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and July 28, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Proceeds from the book fair benefit library programs.

Participating young adults can celebrate the completion of the Summer Reading Program at the BellCon IV finale party Saturday, July 31, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Bellevue Public Library. There'll be lots of refreshments and activities including RockBand, a watermelon feed, pinatas, DDR, a J-pop dance, and more. Final reading sheets for the young adult program are also due July 31.

Do you love to read but can't get to the library? Bellevue Public Library is partnering with the Friends of Bellevue Public Library to offer a new homebound delivery service. The service will provide home deliveries of books and other library materials to adult homebound residents in Bellevue. For more information about this service, click here.

Bellevue Public Library announces the following holiday hours: Labor Day -- Monday, Sept. 6, closed all day. For more information on the library's hours for the year, click on About BPL from the top menu and then click on Hours.