by dbs | Feb 3, 2022 | Library-Auditorium, MLK-Library-Friends, MLK-Renovation
No Bezos Auditorium at MLK! DCPL board is naming the new auditorium at MLK Library after Jeff Bezos. If you do not agree with this action, join the MLK Library Friends Action Steps and follow the news. This post will be updated daily through Feb 9th. Action Steps Send...
by dbs | Feb 3, 2022 | Library-Auditorium, MLK-Library-Friends, MLK-Renovation
An Open Letter to the DC Public Library Board of TrusteesFrom MLK Library FriendsJanuary 3, 2022 (pdf version) The MLK Library Friends wish to register their objection – in the strongest possible terms – to naming the auditorium of the Martin Luther King Memorial...
by dbs | Jan 18, 2022 | Activities, Covid
A washingtonpost.com article by Julie Zauzmer Weil, January 18, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/18/librarians-coronavirus-tests-workers/...
by dbs | Jan 16, 2022 | Homelessness
As we experience a bitter blast of winter cold, the unhoused come to mind. The MLK Library Friends hope to reprise our 2014 “Sanctuary of Mind” conference about homelessness and libraries with new programming in the spring. More details to follow as that...
by dbs | Jan 15, 2022 | Holidays
As we head into MLK Day 2022, we find ourselves still under a cloud of COVID, unable to gather together indoors in large numbers. Even the out-of-doors Peace Walk is at risk from a snowstorm! Whatever the weather, Chair of the DC Council Library Committee Trayon...
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