Five ways we support lifelong learning from birth
When it comes to learning, there is no such thing as starting too early. Research tells us how important it is to introduce literacy concepts ...
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Baby can’t wait
By Carolyn Newberry Schwartz Executive Director, Collaboration for Early Childhood "Baby can’t wait” is a phrase you hear often at the Collaboration for Early Childhood. A compelling body ...
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Dedicating more to Oak Park’s history
As it widens access to early Ernest Hemingway artifacts, the library is now devoting even more resources to its Special Collections. For the first time ...
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Hemingway artifacts now online
'Stunning images, handwritten commentary' Unprecedented, online access is now available to rare Ernest Hemingway family artifacts from the late 1800s and early 1900s through the ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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‘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 ...
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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 ...
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