Hot Topics for October 2018
October is ...

- Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month
- LGBT History Month
- National Book Month
- National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- National Popcorn Poppin' Month
- National Reading Group Month
- National Rolling Skating Month
- Fall Seasonal Recipes
- Find a Flu Shot in Nebraska
- Homemade Halloween Costumes
- Influenza Information
- The Nobel Prize awards are presented in early October
- 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.
- Pumpkins and More Varieties, including nutritional value, facts and history, growing tips.
- October 1 International Coffee Day
- October 4-6 NLA/NSLA Conference Lincoln
- October 6 - November 16 Fall Chrysanthemum Show Omaha
- October 7 Race for the Cure Omaha
- October 7 Chicago Marathon
- October 7-13 Teen Read Week (celebrated the second full week in October)
- October 8 Columbus Day
- October 12 World Egg Day (always the second Friday in October)
- October 14-20 National Wildlife Refuge Week (celebrated the second full week in October)
- October 16 Dictionary Day The birthday of Noah Webster
- October 21-23 Hot Air Balloon Festival Wakefield
- October 21-27 National Friends of Libraries Week
- October 22 Stuttering Awareness Day
- October 23 World Series begins
- October 26-30 Boo at the Zoo Lincoln
- October 27-28 Nebraska Country Music Festival
- October 27 Celebration of Nebraska Books Lincoln
- October 27 Make a Difference Day , National Day of Doing Good (fourth Saturday in October)
- October 29 National Cat Day
- October 30 National Candy Corn Day
- October 30 Talk Like Jane Austen Day
- October 31 Halloween Facts for Features from the U.S. Census Bureau
- October 31 Halloween