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.
For decades, New Orleans Public Library cardholders could browse and borrow from the thousands of records of the Lahache Music Library.
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.
On January 18, 1897, the New Orleans Public Library opened its doors for the first time. Fast forward to 2022. The New Orleans Public Library now operates a 15-location system with a collection of more than 466,000 items and enriches the community with access to free services and resources that its founders could likely have never imagined.