Burleigh County Library

04/22/2026

Stop #5! We made it to the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library and we’re ready with our open house for anyone to come aboard and celebrate NATIONAL LIBRARY OUTREACH DAY with us! 🥳😎🤩📚🚐. Open house runs from 2:00pm to 3:00pm today.

04/22/2026

Stop #4 on our Library Joy tour! Millennium Park in Lincoln has a frisbee golf course and the bookmobile has discs to check out!

04/22/2026

Stop #3 on our Library Joy Tour! We’re featuring fishing poles, life jackets, and ND State Park passes! 🎣🛟🏞️. All available to checkout with your library card 😎

04/22/2026

Stop #2 on our Library Joy tour! Elk Ridge Park featuring Pickleball Sets!

04/22/2026

Stop #1 on our Library Joy tour! We are at North Dakota’s Gateway to Science until 10:00am. We have family passes to checkout!

04/22/2026

04/22/2026

It's National Library Outreach Day! We are excited to bring you a special event...our Library Joy Bookmobile Tour!

The Burleigh County Library staff is hitting the road today for a special Library Joy Bookmobile Tour in honor of National Library Outreach Day! They’ll be visiting special sites across our community, bringing along a few “library of things”—special collections for you to discover, experience, and, of course, check out!
Stops on the Library Joy Tour:
9:00am to 10:00am GATEWAY TO SCIENCE featuring Gateway to Science Family Pass
10:15am to 10:45am ELK RIDGE PARK featuring Pickleball Sets
11:15am to 12:15pm MCDOWELL DAM featuring Fishing Poles, Life Jackets, and ND State Park Passes
12:30pm to 1:30pm MILLENNIUM PARK in Lincoln featuring Disc Golf Sets
2:00pm to 3:00pm BISMARCK VETERANS MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY Bookmobile Open House for all to step aboard and enjoy.

04/21/2026

Today we’re celebrating National Library Workers Day!
Join us in honoring the amazing Bookmobile staff who help you discover joy in every visit!

04/20/2026

It's National Library Week, and we're ready to celebrate! All week long, we will be sharing some special library joy shout-outs to our bookmobile staff.

04/17/2026

We aren’t paying the snow today any mind because we’ve got SUMMER on the brain! 😎☀️🍦📚

We’re excited to team up with the Bismarck Public Library and the Burleigh County Bookmobile this summer 📚☀️

Come kick things off with us and keep the fun going at these Bookmobile stops:

📖 Summer Reading Kickoff
May 27 | 3:00–5:30 PM

📍 New Generations Park
June 18, July 16, August 13 | 12:00–12:45 PM

📍 Hawktree
June 18, July 16, August 13 | 1:00–2:00 PM

📍 A. James Silbernagel Park
June 9 & July 21 | 4:15–5:00 PM

📍 Wachter Park
June 11 & July 23 | 12:00–12:30 PM

Bring the kids, grab a book, and enjoy a fun-filled summer with us! 📚✨

04/07/2026

Congratulations to DOGMAN: BIG JIM BELIEVES! 🤗🥇

Congratulations to Dog Man: Big Jim Believes by Dav Pilkey, the winner of the 2026 Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library and Burleigh County Library Book Madness Tournament!

Thank you to everyone who voted throughout the tournament. We hope you had as much fun as we did.