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Birmingham, AL 35203

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City’s Library Lauded as Tops for Children    (January 31 2012)

Birmingham Public Library Spotlights the Arts for Black History Month    (January 27 2012)

Bards & Brews Travels to Avondale Library in February    (January 26 2012)

Textile Artist Presents Gallery Talk On Quilts of African American History Makers    (January 24 2012)

Quilts Reflect Story of African American History Makers    (January 06 2012)

Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Lecture Focuses on Writing African American History for Youth    (January 03 2012)

Birmingham Public Libraries Closed Sunday, January 1, through Monday, January 2, for Holiday    (December 28 2011)

National Spotlight Focused on Birmingham Librarian    (December 09 2011)

Documents Department Closed on Weekends    (December 02 2011)

Local Authors Expo Great Place to Shop for Literary Gifts    (November 09 2011)

The Birmingham Scene To Open November 6 at Central Library    (November 02 2011)

Birmingham Public Library Celebrates 125 Years of Service With Launch of 2011 Donation Campaign    (October 24 2011)

Birmingham Public Library Fact Sheet     (October 24 2011)

Watercolor Society of Alabama to Host 2011 Alabama Members’ Showcase at the Central Library    (August 15 2011)

Bards & Brews: Birmingham Public Library September Poetry Slam     (August 05 2011)

September Brown Bag Lunches @ the Birmingham Public Library Celebrate Eat Drink Read Write Festival     (July 27 2011)

BPL@Night Presents Get Rhythm West African Drumming Featuring John Scalici    (July 26 2011)

Library Adds Food Fest to Calendar    (July 18 2011)

August Brown Bag Lunches @ the Birmingham Public Library    (July 11 2011)

Birmingham Public Library presents Awareness of the Intangibles, acrylic paintings    (July 07 2011)

July Brown Bag Lunches @ the Birmingham Public Library    (June 30 2011)

Bards & Brews: Birmingham Public Library August Poetry Slam Series    (June 29 2011)

Birmingham Public Library to Host Workshop on Historic House Research    (June 28 2011)

2011 Adult Summer Reading Program @ the Birmingham Public Library    (June 17 2011)

2011 Children’s Summer Reading Program @ the Birmingham Public Library    (June 15 2011)

Teen 2011 Summer Reading Program @ the Birmingham Public Library    (June 13 2011)

Bards & Brews: Birmingham Public Library July Poetry Slam Series    (June 07 2011)

Pratt City Staff to Offer Service from Another Location    (June 01 2011)

Bards & Brews: Birmingham Public Library June Poetry Slam Series    (May 25 2011)

2011 Adult Summer Reading Program @ the Birmingham Public Library    (May 20 2011)

2011 Children’s Summer Reading Program @ the BirminghamPublic Library    (May 18 2011)

Teen 2011 Summer Reading Program @ the Birmingham Public Library    (May 16 2011)

Summer Reading Program for Teens at BPL    (May 10 2011)

BPL to Host “Score Big” with New York Jets’ Wide Receiver Jerricho Cotchery    (May 09 2011)

Friends Plan Gigantic Book Sale    (May 04 2011)

Researching Your Family’s Roots: Family History Resources on the Internet    (April 28 2011)

BPL@Night Presents Casual Causality    (April 27 2011)

Deciphering the Numbers: Library Workshops Focus on Putting 2010 Census Numbers To Use    (April 11 2011)

BPL@Night Presents “Music in the Stacks with Logan”     (April 04 2011)

Children’s Author Ashley Bryan’s Illustrations on Display at Birmingham Public Library    (March 11 2011)

Beyond the Basics of Genealogy    (March 09 2011)

WORD UP! 2011: A Poetry Slam for Jefferson County High School Students     (March 09 2011)

Torch: Birmingham’s Roman God of the Forge    (March 08 2011)

Bards & Brews: Birmingham Public Library April Poetry Slam Series    (March 01 2011)

Library Spending on Materials Misquoted    (February 28 2011)

Alabama Author Ramey Channell Visits Springville RoadRegional Library to Discuss Her Enchanting Tale, Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge    (February 22 2011)

Alabama Author Carolyn Maull McKinstry Discusses While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement    (February 17 2011)

Bards & Brews: BirminghamPublic Library March Poetry Slam Series    (February 01 2011)

“Freedom is Never Given. It is Won.” Celebrate Black History Month at the Birmingham Public Library!    (January 31 2011)

Black Barons of Birmingham: Members of the South’s Greatest Negro League Team and Dr. Larry Powell Recall a Watershed Moment in History    (January 28 2011)

Bards & Brews: Birmingham Public Library February Poetry Slam     (January 25 2011)

Alabama Holocaust Survivors Share Stories of Survival    (January 24 2011)

Re-scheduled—Alabama Author William Cobb Discusses The Last Queen of the Gypsies    (January 24 2011)

Cancellation of BPL Program: The Life You Save: How to Keep a Journal You Won’t Throw Away    (January 21 2011)

Alabama Author Wade Hall Performs Dramatic Interpretation of An Interview with Abraham Lincoln    (January 14 2011)

BPL Scavenger Hunts Connects Young Learners to the Dreamer and His Dream    (January 07 2011)

Birmingham Bound: Writers and Writing from the Birmingham Public Library Archives    (December 30 2010)

Last Days To View Depression Era Murals    (December 20 2010)

Bards & Brews: Birmingham Public Library January Poetry Slam     (December 10 2010)

The Art of Journaling    (December 01 2010)

2010 BPL Campaign’s Second Phase: “Give the Gift of Reading”    (November 24 2010)

Poetry Slam Workshops for Teens and Teachers at the Birmingham Public Library    (November 24 2010)

The Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture—Landscape of Transformations: Architecture and Birmingham, Alabama    (November 24 2010)

Alabama Author William Cobb Discusses The Last Queen of the Gypsies    (November 23 2010)

Neighborhood Libraries Prepare for Holiday Schedule    (November 18 2010)

East Lake Branch Library Grand Re-opening    (November 17 2010)

2010 Local Authors Expo    (November 13 2010)

Birmingham Bound—Fall Series of Author Talks and Book Signings    (November 05 2010)

BPL@Night Celebrates the Season with Storytelling, Puppets, and Jazz!    (November 05 2010)

Poetry Slam Workshops for Teens and Teachers at the Birmingham Public Library    (November 02 2010)

Depression-era Murals Live On    (October 26 2010)

Local Author Discusses Manned Spaceflight to Mars    (October 08 2010)

November BPL@Night Features Guitarist Keith “Cashmere” Williams and Vocalist J. D. Jackson    (October 07 2010)

Bards & Brews: Birmingham Public Library November Poetry Slam     (October 05 2010)

Teens and Tweens Get Ready to Scream at the Annual Ghoul’s Ball at the Birmingham Public Library!    (September 29 2010)

Birmingham Public Library to Host Digital Bookmobile National Tour Event    (September 22 2010)

Birmingham Public Library Presents Annual Storyteller: Lee Brian, That Puppet Guy!    (September 18 2010)

Kathryn Tucker Windham Guest Speaker at BPL Friends Meeting    (September 16 2010)

PBS "Library Corners" Ready for Use at Four Birmingham Public Library Locations    (September 16 2010)

Local Writer and Photographer Present an Illustrated Guide to the Butterflies of Alabama    (September 14 2010)

Popular Sports Journalist Recalls Idyllic Southern Boyhood in Engaging New Memoir    (September 10 2010)

Titusville Branch Library Closing for New Roof    (September 07 2010)

Bards & Brews: Birmingham Public Library Poetry Slam Series    (September 02 2010)

Tutor.com Career Webinar Series     (August 31 2010)

Powderly Branch Library Grand Re-opening     (August 20 2010)

Birmingham Bound series features Mignette Patrick Dorsey and Speak Truth to Power: The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer    (August 18 2010)

Birmingham Public Library Offers 1, 2, 3 Play with Me Early Literacy Program at Four Locations     (August 17 2010)

September BPL@Night Features Gospel Music and Improv Theatre    (August 06 2010)

Birmingham Public Library Presents Heads Up Programs    (July 20 2010)

BPL@Night Series Features Baseball Legends, American Tribal Belly Dancing, and Down-Home Family Music!    (July 06 2010)

Heads Up Alabama! BPL Showcases Art Exhibit Sponsored by aPAF    (June 25 2010)

Birmingham Public Library Celebrates Rickwood Field and Baseball    (June 18 2010)

BPL@Night Series Features Summer Baseball and Hot Jazz!    (June 07 2010)

Smithfield Branch Library Closing for Repairs    (May 27 2010)

BPL’s Grand Slam Summer Adult Reading Program    (May 26 2010)

Birmingham Public Library Launches Summer Reading Program    (May 26 2010)

Birmingham Public Library Offers Teen Summer Library Program    (May 26 2010)

June Brown Bag Lunch Programs at the Birmingham Public Library    (May 20 2010)

BPL@Night Series Incorporates Art and Authors In Its June Line-up    (May 19 2010)

Make a Splash at Linn Park Fountain: Birmingham Public Library to Host Sign-Up for Summer Reading     (May 19 2010)

Birmingham Black Barons Database    (May 17 2010)

BPL Explores the “Exigencies of the Soul”--An Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Deborah Perry    (May 17 2010)

Heads up Alabama! BPL to showcase art exhibit sponsored by the Alabama Psychological Association     (May 10 2010)

BPL to Host “Score Big” with New York Jets’ Wide Receiver Jerricho Cotchery    (April 28 2010)

Tree Planting Heals Wounds of Intolerance and Injustice    (April 20 2010)

BPL Looks At Baseball History with “Pride and Passion”    (April 12 2010)

Birmingham Public Library Chosen for Sustainability Practices for Special Collections    (March 22 2010)

Scenes From Romeo and Juliet Take Center Stage For April’s BPL@Night    (March 20 2010)

BPL@Night to Feature a Performance Peter Fletcher, Classical Guitarist    (March 04 2010)

“Roots of Courage; Branches of Hope”    (March 04 2010)

Community Forum on Making Democracy Work As It Should    (March 02 2010)

BPL@Night presents “Writing What You Don't Know”     (February 16 2010)

BPL@Night Presents Flying Jenny, Old-Time String Band, Playing for the Big Read Kick-off    (February 11 2010)

The Birmingham Public Library to Host "Alabama Illustrated: Engravings from 19th Century Newspapers"    (February 10 2010)

The Birmingham Public Library to Host “Foundation Center Resources for Nonprofits” in the Central Library’s Auditorium on March 1, 2010    (February 09 2010)

BPL@Night to Feature a Performance by Carl Winters, “The Kalimba King” in the Central Library’s Auditorium on February 18, 2010    (February 01 2010)

BPL@Night Presents Conversations on Art, Authors, and Life: Is a Generational Gap Holding Birmingham Back?    (January 13 2010)

BPL@Night Presents Conversations on Art, Authors, and Life    (January 05 2010)

BPL@Night Presents Two Suitcases and an Accordion: Traveling with the USO Camp Shows    (January 04 2010)

BPL@Night to Host Concert Featuring Rosephanye Dunn Powell    (November 19 2009)

Read It Forward 2009 to Feature Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank    (November 12 2009)

Roosevelt’s Tree Army Arrives at the Birmingham Public Library    (October 20 2009)

October 2009 Brown Bag Programs at the Birmingham Public Library    (October 07 2009)

Birmingham Public Library to Host “A Financial Fire Drill: Planning For Uncertain Times,”     (September 17 2009)

Birmingham Public Library to Host Book Signing by John Klima, author of Willie’s Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, The Last Negro League World Series and the Making of a Baseball Legend    (September 14 2009)

Birmingham Public Library to Host Visions of China: Exploring China's History and Culture Through Early Photography    (September 10 2009)

Birmingham Public Library to Host “An Evening with Eric Essix” for September’s BPL@Night     (September 04 2009)

Birmingham Public Library Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the Central East Building    (September 03 2009)

Birmingham Public Library to Host Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Central Alabama for BPL@Night    (July 30 2009)

Birmingham Public Library To Host “Pride and Passion: The African- American Baseball Experience”    (July 27 2009)

Birmingham Public Library’s Ready to Read Program To Be Featured at the American Library Association in Chicago, IL    (July 08 2009)

Birmingham Public Library to Host Math in Motion for BPL@Night    (June 23 2009)

Birmingham Public Library and The Cotchery Foundation to Host a Celebrity Bowling Event     (June 17 2009)

Irene Blalock New BPL Director    (June 16 2009)

June 2009 Brown Bag Programs at the Birmingham Public Library    (June 04 2009)

Birmingham Public Library to Host The Extemporaneous Theatre Company for June’s BPL@Night    (May 29 2009)

Powderly Branch Library Closed for Renovations Beginning May 22, 2009    (May 21 2009)

Birmingham Public Library to Host Free Seminar “Researching Patent and Trademark Information”    (May 04 2009)

Birmingham Public Library to Host “Score Big” with New York Jets’ Wide Receiver and Birmingham native Jerricho Cotchery    (May 01 2009)

BPL@Night to Host After Class, an Instrumental Celtic Trio    (April 27 2009)

BPL@Night to Feature a Performance by Carl Winters, “The Kalimba King” in the Central Library’s Atrium    (March 10 2009)

BPL@Night to Host Vincenza Scarpaci, Author of The Journey of the Italians in America    (March 10 2009)

March 2009 Brown Bag Programs at the Birmingham Public Library    (March 03 2009)

BPL@Night to Feature Muse of Fire Performing Scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream    (February 25 2009)

Word Up! Spoken Word Contest    (February 03 2009)

BPL@Night Presents Pianist Anthony Pattin    (January 26 2009)

BPL@Night presents Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North    (January 16 2009)

Correction to the Ben Franklin Autobiography Discussion    (January 13 2009)

“Basics of Archives” Workshop at the Birmingham Public Library    (January 12 2009)

BPL@Night Presents Liang Acrobatic & Comedy Show    (January 07 2009)

Birmingham Public Library Presents the National Traveling Exhibit, “Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World”     (January 06 2009)

BPL to Host an African-American Genealogy Workshop    (January 05 2009)

January 2009 Brown Bag Programs at the Birmingham Public Library    (December 31 2008)

Birmingham Public Library Board Elects New Board Officers     (December 01 2008)

BPL@Night presents Alabama actor Thom Gossom in Voices of Spirits     (November 06 2008)

BPL@Night presents Flying Jenny, old-time string band    (November 03 2008)

Public Libraries of Jefferson County Collected 11 Tons of Food for Area Food Banks    (October 23 2008)

BPL@Night to Host Richard Arrington Jr.    (October 03 2008)

Town Hall Meetings @ Your Library hosted by the Birmingham Public Library     (October 02 2008)

The Birmingham Public Library to host Tech Tuesdays Again This Fall     (August 21 2008)

BPL@Night to host “Act of Congress” Concert     (August 07 2008)

Birmingham Public Libraries Offer Citizens 17 Opportunities to Speak Up About Birmingham City Schools This Summer    (July 09 2008)

BPL@Night to host “The Ugly Bug Ball,” A Children’s Theater Experience     (July 07 2008)

BPL@Night welcomes Hip Hop Artist Shaheed to the Library    (June 11 2008)

Birmingham Public Library Staff Win National Awards    (May 29 2008)

BPL@Night hosts Warren Trest    (May 22 2008)

BPL@Night hosts Chopin’s Afterlife, Monday May 12th, 2008 at the Birmingham Public Library Arrington Auditorium    (May 12 2008)

Birmingham Public Library Presents: Social Networking for Parents: What You Need to Know About What Your Children are Typing     (May 12 2008)

Birmingham Public Library Presents Its Next Retirement Class: “Your Good Health – Now and in Retirement”    (May 06 2008)

BPL@Night hosts Douglas Blackmon, author of Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II    (May 06 2008)

Birmingham Public Library’s May Brown Bag Programs    (April 28 2008)

BPL@Night hosts Music of the Times Featuring the Birmingham Heritage Band    (April 10 2008)

The Birmingham Public Library Will Present “Legal Readiness” for Retirees, the Next Class in the Retirement Seminar    (April 06 2008)

BPL@Night Presents Theater Group Muse of Fire Performing Scenes from Macbeth    (March 10 2008)

The Birmingham Public Library is Hosting Tech Tuesdays, Beginning in March and Going Through May    (March 10 2008)

Author Carole Weatherford to Visit Birmingham Public Library February 25-27th    (February 13 2008)

Legendary Jazz Performer Roszetta Johnson Singing Again for BPL@Night in the Birmingham Public Library’s Central Atrium, February 21st    (February 11 2008)

Famed Author Walter Mosley To Be Discussed at BPL@Night in Birmingham Public Library’s Arrington Auditorium, February 12th    (February 04 2008)

Storyteller Donna Washington to Entertain Several Branches of the Birmingham Public Library    (January 25 2008)

BPL@Night Presents Music by Masters    (January 24 2008)

BPL@Night Presents Conversations on the Constitution    (January 14 2008)