Need a New Read? Ask Alexa to Get it from Your Local Library
OKLAHOMA CITY–Metro Library’s eResource, Hoopla Digital, launched an Alexa integration enabling library customers with the Amazon Alexa smart home speaker to use voice commands to access their library Hoopla account – giving customers more from their library, without leaving the house.
The integration will allow library customers to use voice commands like, “Alexa, ask Hoopla to list popular audiobooks” or “Alexa, ask Hoopla to play my music” and other commands. Through the new Hoopla skill library customers will be able to stream full music CDs and listen to audiobooks that they ...
LIBRARY HOSTS FAN FICTION AND FAN ART CONTEST
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Metropolitan Library System is looking for local artists and writers to share their fandom and talent with the community for a chance to win prizes. Metro Library announced the annual Fan Fiction and Fan Art contest.
Submissions will be accepted through March 24 at 6:00 p.m. by emailing cjones@metrolibrary.org or by dropping them off at the Southern Oaks Library. Winners will be announced at the announcement party and awards ceremony on March 30, 2019 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Prizes for the winners will include gift cards, DVDs, plushies and more. The anno...
New Bakery Opens at the Downtown Library
OKLAHOMA CITY– The Ronald J Norick Downtown Library is welcoming a new bakery and sandwich shop to their downstairs café space.
D Taino Bakery will open Monday, Feb. 4, 2019 at the Ronald J Norick Downtown Library café on the corner of Park and Harvey. In addition to freshly baked pastries, they will serve a variety of savory breakfast and lunch items.
“We are excited to have D Taino in our library and looking forward to the convenience that a quality bakery nearby will bring to our customers,” Deputy Executive Director of Operations for the Metropolitan Library System A...
Large-Scale Renovation Planned for Belle Isle Library
OKLAHOMA CITY– Plans for the renovation of the Belle Isle Library will soon be underway after the City of Oklahoma City Council recently awarded the design of the project to ADG, a local architecture firm.
The renovation will include major changes to the existing floorplan and an expansion that will add about 14,000 square foot to the library. In addition, the library will add new furniture, fixtures and equipment.
“We are excited to get started on the Belle Isle Library renovation project,” Deputy Executive Director of Operations Anthony Herron said. “The Belle Isle Lib...
Citizenship Program Opens Doors for Metro Families
OKLAHOMA CITY– The Metropolitan Library System offers local literacy programs to help immigrants become citizens as a part of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries Citizenship Corners Program.
Southern Oaks and Edmond Metro Library branches coordinate Citizenship Classes as part of Citizenship Corners, areas designated across the country to serve non-native English speakers. The program helped 38 immigrants become citizens in the first two years of the program and has worked with immigrants from over 35 countries.
Metro Libraries, together with the Teaching English to Spe...
The Village Library Renovation Update: Week 7
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Anyone Can Wear the Mask
If you get the chance to see “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse” before it leaves the theaters, take it! I saw it with my grand-nephew last year and we both loved it. Seeing Miles Morales, a biracial teen donning the mantle of Spider-Man was pretty amazing to my nephew who is also biracial. After we left the movie theater, a line that Miles said stuck with me… “Anyone can wear the mask”.
He got me to thinking about when I was younger reading comic books and fantasy novels. I devoured books where people who came from different lands and didn’t look ...
The Village Library Renovation Update: Week 6
The Village Library will reopen on March 18, following the completion of the renovation project which will include recarpeting and repainting the library interior, removing the reference desk to add additional larger public computer desks, adding a new service desk to replace the circulation desk and relocating staff work areas to make room for additional public study rooms. In addition, a family restroom, a through-wall book return and an additional self-checkout station will be added.
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Spring Break with the Library
Whether Oklahoma County families are traveling or planning a staycation – the library has a variety of programs and services to keep users of every age entertained during spring break.
There is something for everyone at the library this spring break. Pass the time in the car with library materials and services available on a mobile device such as eAudiobooks, eBooks and 24/7 access to streaming music and movies. Families planning to stay local for the break can visit the many March library programs including zip lines engineering design, stargazing with the Lunar Sooners, craftern...
Teen Tech Month 2019
The Metropolitan Library System is working to inspire Oklahoma teens to explore, create and share by celebrating Teen Tech Month throughout March.
Metro Libraries will be hosting programs that showcase the technology-based learning available through the library to help teens prepare for college and careers by ensuring they are skilled and ethical technology users. The programs inspire teens to explore science, technology, engineering, art, math and much more.
Events will include robotics, coding, circuitry and art-themed learning. Attendees will have the opportunity to u...
The Village Library Renovation Update: Week 4
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Celebrate Galentine's Day!
“What is Galentine’s Day? Oh, it’s only the best day of the year,” says Leslie Knope, the optimistic, ambitious community organizer played by Amy Poehler on the TV show Parks & Recreation. In the show’s second season, Leslie explains her made-up holiday, “Every February 13th, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick it, breakfast style. Ladies celebrating ladies. It’s like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus frittatas.”
I love this idea. First of all, breakfast is my most favorite food. Why? Name a breakfast food that can’t ...
Bethany Library - Updated photos
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Its time to vote for the Sequoyah Book Awards!
Did you know that Oklahoma is home to one of the oldest book awards in the nation?
The Sequoyah Book Awards recognize the unique and creative achievements of American authors, and the best part is, it’s selected by the youth who read their titles!
Students who have read three or more titles on the 2019 Sequoyah Masterlist are qualified to cast a vote for this year’s winners.
The deadline to vote is March 15, 2019.
Age groups are as follows (click age group to read the PDF masterlist): Children’s (Grades 3-5)Vote Now
Check Out an Award Winning Title: Youth Media Award Winners Announced
Every year, the American Library Association awards special recognition to excellent new books for children and teens. The most recognizable of these awards are the Randolph Caldecott Medal, for the most distinguished picture book; the John Newbery Medal, for excellent in children’s literature; the Michael L. Printz Award, for excellence in young adult literature; and the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, for books that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.
This year’s awards were announced at a library conference in Seattle on January 2...