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The 2017 National Book Awards
Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in…
Read MoreThe Christy Awards
The Christy Award™ is a program of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) and is the foremost award honoring and promoting excellence in Christian fiction since 1999. It is named for Catherine Marshall’s novel, Christy, which has sold over 10 million copies since its publication in 1967. These awards were established to acknowledge the value and impact…
Read MoreThe Elsenpeter Marionettes present Tom Sawyer
A marionette is a puppet that is moved by pulling wires or strings. It is a small-scale, usually wooden, figure with jointed limbs. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by using a vertical or horizontal control bar in different forms of theatres or entertainment venues. They have also been used in films and…
Read MoreMan Booker Prize 2017
The Man Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over four decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in…
Read MoreImpact Survey
If you have used the Miami Public Library’s computers, our wifi, our website, or any of the electronic resources that we offer such as OverDrive, RBDigital, Lynda.com, etc., take our survey and register for prizes! Beginning Sept. 18th and running through Oct. 13th, the library will be conducting the Impact Survey, a survey to better…
Read MoreHealth Literacy Grant
Miami Public Library receives Health Literacy Grant The library recently received a $9,000 Health Literacy grant. The funds, provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Oklahoma Department of Libraries (ODL), will be used to provide health education through such events as diabetes classes, yoga classes, and some healthy cooking demonstrations. It…
Read MoreClassical Guitarist to Perform at the Library
Classical guitarist, Peter Fletcher, will be performing at the Miami Public Library on Thursday, October 12, at 6:30 p.m. Fletcher, who plays to packed houses at Carnegie Hall, has performed at the library several times and has always provided a stellar program. This is an exciting addition to the 66 Cultural District programming for 2017.…
Read MoreLiteracy Grant Award
Literacy Grant Supports the Miami Public Library Adult Literacy Program The Oklahoma Department of Libraries announced that a $7,880 grant was awarded to the Miami Public Library Adult Literacy Program to support local adult literacy efforts. The check was officially presented to the program by Representative Ben Loring, who commended the literacy program for its…
Read More2017 Pulitzer Prizewinners in Literature
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each…
Read MoreWomen on the Mother Road in Oklahoma: Route 66
A documentary film maker and two historians will present a program on women on the Mother Road on Tuesday, September 19, 7:oo p.m. at the library. Called the “Mother Road” by author John Steinbeck, U.S. Route 66 stretches some 2,400 miles from Los Angeles to Chicago, symbolic of the mobility available to Americans, and an…
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