This Black History Month, we’d like to introduce you to Gertiana Williams, Charles Brown, and Tamyka Miles, three important Library leaders.
The New Orleans Public Library officially desegregated in 1954, but it took many years before the system would truly integrate.
Geraldine Vaucresson was hired in 1961 as the first Black librarian in New Orleans to work at a traditionally white library. Her employment was part of a strategic to integrate the Library in practice, as well as on paper, which happened in 1954.
Dryades Library opened in 1915 as the first public Library in New Orleans to welcome Black patrons, almost two decades after the New Orleans Public Library officially opened its doors.
The Library is wrapping up our 125th anniversary celebrations by taking a look back at our top 125 books of all time.
Take a ride back in time to an analog world, where Library staff needed to catalog, organize, archive, and track down information before computers or the internet.
From 1952 until the mid 1980s, New Orleans Public Library cardholders could check out framed art prints to bring home for weeks at a time.
To celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the City Archives at the New Orleans Public Library, staff created an exhibit to feature the contributions of nine City Agencies to the collections held at the City Archives. Each exhibit will show the historically significant, impactful, and interesting materials the agencies have transferred to the Archives.
For decades, New Orleans Public Library cardholders could browse and borrow from the thousands of records of the Lahache Music Library.
Until her death in 1998, Rosa F. Keller repeatedly took up arms to fight for equality for all – regardless of race, gender, or sexual identity – and was an especially important figure in the New Orleans Public Library’s path to inclusivity.