Hot Topics for May 2019
May is ...
May is ... - Get Caught Reading Month
- Mental Health Month
- National Hamburger Month
- National Military Appreciation Month
- National Preservation Month
- Older American's Month
- Art of the Commencement Speech
- One Book One Nebraska: This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm by Ted Genoways is the joint 2019 One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa Reads selection.
- Peregrine Falcon Webcam at the State Capitol
- April 24 - May 5 Tribeca Film Festival
- April 29-May 5 Children's Book Week
- May 1 Mother Goose Day
- May 1-7 Choose Privacy Week
- May 4-5, 11-12 Renaissance Festival of Nebraska
- May 4 Kentucky Derby (first Saturday in May)
- May 4 Lincoln Haymarket Farmer's Market begins
- May 4 Omaha Farmers Markets begin
- May 5 Cinco de Mayo
- May 5-11 National Pet Week (always the first full week of May)
- National Library Legislative Day In light of ALA's Annual Conference, which will take place in Washington, D.C. on June 20-25, 2019, the next National Library Legislative Day will occur in 2020.
- May 12 Mother's Day
- May 12-18 National Skilled Nursing Care Week
- May 13-19 National Bike to Work Week
- May 14-25 Cannes Film Festival
- May 17 National Pizza Party Day (third Friday in May)
- May 18 Preakness Stakes (third Saturday in May)
- May 22 Anniversary of the Hallam Tornado in 2004
- May 23-26 Grand Prix of Monaco
- May 26 Indianapolis 500
- May 26-27 Scripps Spelling Bee
- May 26-June 9 French Open
- May 27 Memorial Day
- May 29-31 Book Expo America
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