The City of New Orleans Health Department and New Orleans Public Library will Partner to Give Away N95 Masks to the Public.
Due to the enormous demand for home COVID-19 test kits, the City of New Orleans Health Department (NOHD) will provide all remaining test kits in stock to the public today at select New Orleans Public Libraries (NOPL).
Thank you, New Orleans! To those who voted, the volunteers, and our amazing staff, thank you.
Following Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s announcement last week, the New Orleans Public Library suspended its mask mandate Friday, October 29.
The New Orleans Public Library has launched a new collection that allows cardholders to borrow professional-grade baking pans for up to three weeks at a time.
The Friends of the New Orleans Public Library have been supporting the Library’s mission to transform lives, enrich neighborhoods, and preserve history since 1947.
The Library has partnered with Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses to increase public access to New Orleans’ culture and history.
Over the last year and a half, libraries have had to re-envision services amid the COVID-19 pandemic. For us, re-envisioning services meant taking a look at one of our most used sources of information: our website.
‘I Couldn’t Have Done It Alone’: Library Resources Help Turn Hobby Into a Career Local historian and educator Gaynell Brady credits much of her success as a genealogist to the New Orleans and Jefferson Parish public library systems, calling them “the perfect resource” for professionals and novices alike. “Genealogy is an expensive hobby, but the Library makes it accessible for everybody,” she said. “And that is a huge blessing.” Brady became interested in genealogy in 2007 after creating an Ancestry.com account to build her family tree as a way of healing from the pain of Hurricane Katrina. “I’ve always been that kid that asks a lot of questions about where my family came from; tough questions,” she said. “I was always curious, and I just wanted to know where I came from. And then especially when I became a mom, I really wanted to know. Not just for me, but
Almost a century ago, James, Ralph, and John Nix donated their family’s lot at the corner of Willow Street and Carrollton Avenue to the City of New Orleans in order to build a library in memory of their parents.