Nearly 200,000 materials in the Omaha Public Library system will spend four years in limbo following the closure of the W. Dale Clark Main Library in 2022 until the new Central Library’s opens next spring.
In the meantime, some of the artifacts are being housed at the new downtown branch on 14th and Jones streets. Others landed in an old Shopko building near 84th and Center streets.
The former department store building currently houses Omaha Public Library’s genealogy and local history collection. All of the resources have remained available to the public in the Genealogy & Local History Room—or Shopko’s former Lawn & Garden department…