May 17, 2023
EVANSTON, IL — Literacy starts early in Evanston, thanks in part to a new joint initiative between the Evanston Public Library and the office of Evanston City Clerk Stephanie Mendoza. Since the start of 2023, new parents requesting birth certificates for their newborns from the Evanston City Clerk’s office have been gifted a Welcome Baby […]
May 17, 2023
EVANSTON, ILL. — 1619: The Journey of a People, The Musical, written by Ted Williams III, comes to Evanston this spring for two performances, a special presentation for Evanston Township High School faculty and students this Friday, May 19, and a public performance at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 17, as a part of the City of Evanston’s Juneteenth […]
March 24, 2023
The Evanston Public Library has named Listen to the Language of the Trees: A Story of How Trees Communicate Underground by Tera Kelley and illustrated by Marie Hermansson the winner of the second annual Blueberry Award. The Blueberry Awards honor children’s literature that strengthens kids’ connections with nature and fosters action for the planet. The […]
March 1, 2023
Our goals with a community-based summer outreach program are to: Help children, teens and adults build a habit of reading; Increase outreach to systematically racially impacted neighborhoods, including the 5th, 8th, and 9th Wards; Connect Evanstonians with access to and awareness of library services in places where they gather, not just at our library buildings. […]
March 1, 2023
In 2022, EPL began a project called Digitally Desegregating Evanston: Rediscovering and Reclaiming a Shared Past. EPL began the process of digitizing its collection of the entire Evanston Review from 1872 through today, and the Newsette, the most important Black weekly paper in Evanston, which began in 1941 and was released periodically through the 1980’s. […]
March 1, 2023
Being connected to the broader community is key to feeling a part of your world, to feeling valued and respected. EPL is committed to creating authentic, deep relationships within the entire community. One way we have been doing this is through developing a dynamic and diverse staff that reflects the community around us and focuses […]
March 1, 2023
EPL’s collection of materials, both physical and digital, is the heart of our work. Our collection spans more than 331,000 books and countless digital media, from children’s to adult, biographies to science fiction, and hard cover to e-magazines. It also spans two locations, the Main Library branch on Church Street, and the Robert Crown Library […]
March 1, 2023
This summer, in support of increasing Black cultural arts and storytelling at EPL, we are co-hosting a performance of 1619: The Journey of a People – A Musical by Ted Williams III. As stated on their website, “The multi-disciplinary theater experience of 1619: The Journey of a People is expressed through three modern characters in […]
February 28, 2023
EVANSTON, ILL. – The Evanston Public Library is proud to announce that its own Elacsha Madison has won the American Library Association’s coveted I Love My Librarian Award. The I Love My Librarian Award honors exceptional librarians from academic, public and school libraries who were nominated by patrons nationwide for their expertise, dedication and profound […]
January 5, 2023
You might not think winter is a good time to look for birds but while colorful warblers have headed south, ducks of all sorts are spending the winter right in our neighborhood. Northwestern University and the lakeshore are great places to see diving ducks like Buffleheads, pictured above. Buffleheads are small chubby ducks with a […]
