The Library’s City Archives & Special Collections helped one McDonogh 35 alum find the untold stories of her legendary alma mater.
A former member of the Library’s virtual writing workshop recently published a memoir she started developing in the group.
April 11 is National Take Action for Libraries Day, so we’re shining a light on our longtime supporters: the Friends of the New Orleans Public Library. Since 1957, the Friends have been standing up for the Library’s mission through sponsorship, fundraising, and advocacy work.
Delise Hampton is a mother, educator, birth worker, multimedia content creator, and singer who performs as the High Heal Doula.
The New Orleans Public Library published a collection of winning summer writing contest entries in an anthology titled “Renewed.”
Local historian, educator, and founder of Our Mammy’s, Gaynell Brady, will moderate a panel at GenFest, a genealogy festival at the Library.
Prime Time is an award-winning program that encourages families to read and learn together as a family at the New Orleans Public Library.
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.
New Orleans Native and Mardi Gras Indian, Flagboy Giz, is featured on Crescent City Sounds, a free streaming service created by the Library.