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The Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library is a library affiliated with the Metropolitan Library System in downtown Oklahoma City, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The four-story, 114,130 square-foot library, opened on August 17, 2004. [1] The building is named after former mayor Ron Norick, and cost approximately $21.5 million to construct. [2]
In December 2008, bloggers James Miko and Wayne Fuller accused Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett of working with Steve Kern, the husband of Rep. Sally Kern and pastor of Olivet Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, to make nominations to the Metropolitan Library Commission based on the issue of disallowing children access to such controversial books ...
George W. Steele, the governor of Oklahoma Territory also served as the first librarian. The library's name changed to Oklahoma Library in 1893, but the "Office of the State Librarian" was not officially established until statehood in 1907. The site of the library migrated to Oklahoma City in 1910 with the move of the state capital.
Oklahoma's education board has revoked the license of a former teacher who drew national attention during surging book-ban efforts across the U.S. in 2022 when she covered part of her classroom ...
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Oklahoma City Oklahoma City: Oct 27, 1899: $60,000 131 Dean A. McGee Avenue Razed in 1951 17: Perry Perry: Feb 13, 1909: $10,000 302 North 7th Street 18: Ponca City Ponca City: Aug 29, 1908: $6,500 Grand Avenue and Fifth Street Razed in 1935 19: Sapulpa Sapulpa: Jan 28, 1916: $25,000 27 W Dewey 20: Shawnee Shawnee: Jun 2, 1904: $15,500 331 ...
The Oklahoma Library Association (OLA) is a non-profit organization that promotes libraries and library services and provides professional development for library personnel in the state of Oklahoma. OLA is a chapter of both the American Library Association and the Mountain Plains Library Association . [ 2 ]
Shawnee Public Library Tecumseh Public Library Former Norman Public Library Central, 2019 Norman Public Library Central under construction, 2019. The Pioneer Library System (PLS) is a public library system that serves residents in the central Oklahoma counties of Cleveland, Pottawatomie and McClain with administrative offices in Norman. [3]