Play video games and compete against your friends at Brookings Public Library!
The museum is excited to welcome CK Van Dam, author of the book Proving Her Claim. This debut novel for CK follows Anna, a woman homesteader in the Dakota Territory. Join CK as she discusses the spark that started this book and her vast research of women homesteaders on the Dakota plains. This event is […]
Trivia Night at Wooden Legs is a time to test your knowledge against your fellow beer lovers! As always, the game is free to play and offers many fun prizes to our star teams of the evening. The game will start at 7:30pm and will wrap up by 10pm. Table are limited so we suggest […]
Discuss a book and have some pizza at Brookings Public Library! This club is for grades 6-12.
Registration: 10:00 a.m. Fishing: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Weigh-In & Prizes: 12:30 p.m. Join us for our annual kid's ice fishing derby on Saturday, January 28th, 2023. There is no cost to register. Fishing rods and bait will be provided. Snacks and hot cocoa will be provided. Park entrance licenses will be available for purchase.
Grab your morning coffee with a fascinating livestream look at Native American artwork given to the South Dakota Art Museum by the late Dr. Ben Reifel. Ben Reifel (1906-1990) was a longtime Bureau of Indian Affairs official, and the first person of Lakota descent elected to the United States Congress. This Coffee with Collections will […]
Trivia Night at Wooden Legs is a time to test your knowledge against your fellow beer lovers! As always, the game is free to play and offers many fun prizes to our star teams of the evening. The game will start at 7:30pm and will wrap up by 10pm. Table are limited so we suggest […]
Join Dr. Yiqun Chen, SDSU Lecturer in Saxophone and Jazz Studies, who will provide an overview of the development of jazz music in the United States and highlight specific contributions by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. This event is part of the Library's Black Media is Beautiful event series honoring Black History Month with […]
The Library will host a film screening of Oscar Micheaux’s “Within Our Gates”. The screening will be followed by a presentation entitled “Oscar Micheaux: From Homesteading to Hollywood,” by Marthetta Watson, which will begin at 7pm. The 1920 film, “Within Our Gates,” tells the story of an educated Black woman with a shocking past who […]