News Articles About the Library

Since its 2014 opening, the Melrose Center for Technology, Innovation and Creativity at the downtown Orlando Public Library has gotten increasingly fresh and relevant, preserving the grand old notion of a civic library by bringing it into shining modernity.

The holidays can be a stressful time for everyone! Thankfully the Orange County Library System is here to relieve that stress with fun, informative events for the whole family.

OCLS has partnered with CareerSource Central Florida in providing events that will engage children and families of all ages with our local heroes.

Hamilton-mania is making its way to Orlando with an exclusive screening of the documentary Hamilton’s America at the Orange County Library Monday evening. This screening precedes the documentary’s airing on PBS 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21.

Orlando Public Library’s “Booktoberfest” has been rescheduled for Friday, Oct. 21, after being postponed due to Hurricane Matthew.

The Washington Park Branch Library will be hosting a grand opening celebration for the P.L.A.N.E.T. multimedia center for kids, tweens and teens.

The Orange County Library System is now accepting submissions for the third annual Melrose Awards. The awards recognize projects made using resources available in the Dorothy Lumley Melrose Center at the Orlando Public Library.

The “Paint Strong Orlando” collection is currently at the Orlando Public Library downtown, and about 200 of the pieces will stay on the first and third floors of the library through October.

More than 250 libraries and organizations from around the world are participating this week in an initiative to bring attention to the importance of libraries.

In the days after the massacre at the gay nightclub Pulse, local art shop Sam Flax announced it would donate supplies to artists to create works of art responding to the tragedy.