Ben Bedford will bring his musical sketches of America's people, victories, and struggles to his free concert on Monday, Feb. 25, at 7 pm at the Main Library. Bedford’s CDs will be available for sale and signing after the concert.
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Fingers and bow flying, Dennis Stroughmatt takes listeners on a musical odyssey not so different from his own musical journeys into Upper Louisiana Creole Culture.
Step up to the challenge, compete for glory, and support your library. Register online or at any library location. Registration closes when space is filled or by February 22. Admission is $35 per person.
There’s no need to leave your car to pick up your reserved library materials at our branch locations. We're all about making life easier for you, so why not call ahead with your library card number? We’ll let you know when your items will be ready, and bring them out to you.
Need help reducing stress? Here are some specific titles recommended by our own Collection Development Manager Bleue Benton.
Patch interviewed our out-going Executive Director Dee Brennan about her six-year tenure with us.
Meet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond at Oak Park's Unity Temple on Thursday, Jan. 10 at 7:00 pm.
Robert Dicke examines how modern-day Americans honor their past by recreating an historian figure or past event in “Modern American Past,” on display through January 30 in the Main Library
Please join us on Friday, Dec. 28, in the Main Library Lobby from 4 pm to 6 pm as we bid farewell to Executive Director Deirdre Brennan.
The Board of Trustees approved the library’s 2013 budget in November. Read our 2013 budget summary to learn about how library use has changed, what’s ahead in 2013, and how Oak Park property taxpayers contribute.
Many library users are between the ages of 9 and 18, so we've completed some “do-it-yourself” work this winter that improves areas for teens and tweens in the Main Library.
Oak Park Public Library’s Board of Trustees has engaged Alice Calabrese-Berry as a search consultant to support the Board in its national search for a new executive director. A decision on a candidate is expected by the end of March 2013.
Even more ebooks, including titles not previously available from publishers as library ebooks, can now be checked out with your Oak Park Public Library card.
Join us at the Main Library Thursday, December 6, at 7:00 pm to hear a formal presentation on what our local teens learned as part of a national pilot program designed to engage students, journalists, news ethicists, and librarians in news literacy education.
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