Dayton Metro Library

Dayton Metro Library is planning a summit celebrating the past, present, and future of the transgender community. This includes an intergenerational panel of trans elders and youth.

It’s been ten years since the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. In Dayton, local activists talked this week about police reform and racial discrimination.

Cheryl Brown Henderson talks about the legacy of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Brown is the daughter of the lead plaintiff, Oliver L. Brown

The exhibit was produced by the University of Dayton Human Rights Center. It depicts how some reacted to the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Diversity lags in children's literature. Eighteen BIPOC authors from around the country met readers at the West Branch of the Dayton Metro Library to promote representation in children's literature.

An author and literacy advocate is coordinating the When I See Me BIPOC Children's Book Fair at the Dayton Metro Library, encouraging youth to jump into new adventures.

WYSO Music Director Juliet Fromholt tells WYSO Weekend Host, Jerry Kenney about the next Tiny Stacks Concert on Thursday, May 16, with Frank Calzada & Friends.

The Tiny Stacks music series is a collaboration between WYSO, Dayton Metro Library and the International College of Broadcasting (ICB).

Nearly every Thursday, people of all ages can come to the Main Library in downtown Dayton to place tiles in a mosaic that will become part of the memorial.

Tiny Stacks is concert series that invites local artists of a variety of genres and styles to perform in unconventional spaces in Dayton Metro Library branches.

The Boston Public Library, which opened in 1854, is generally considered the first public library. Its statement of purpose basically says: Every citizen has the right of free access to community-owned resources. That’s still the founding principle among today’s public libraries, but their role has also changed to evolve with the current needs, as Renee Wilde found out during a chat with three Dayton Metro librarians

All library locations within the Dayton Metro Library system are now allowing library card holders to check out mobile hotspot kits for 21 days at a time.