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Rob Simmons, Director of Social Services and Safety

Manager for Community Resources hired

Robert A. Simmons has accepted the library’s new full-time position of Manager for Community Resources. His first day in this new library role will be Monday, …
Marcelline Hemingway Baby Book

Opening the vault

Now online are the first 84 of at least 300 digitized artifacts from the library, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park (EHFOP), and the …
Home Delivery

‘I couldn’t exist without library books’

For Millicent Hosp, a 101-year-old resident of Brookdale Plaza Oak Park, printed books are a thing of the past. Hosp remembers the stories she used …

Oak Park Talks: First impressions

By David J. Seleb, Executive Director, Oak Park Public Library I was introduced to the Harwood practice in October 2013, while attending a Public Innovators …