The East Lake Branch of the Birmingham Public Library is set to reopen its doors on Monday, June 2, 2025, following extensive ...

After more than a year of planning, the Birmingham Public Library is ready to reveal its new bookmobile—a vehicle designed to offer traveling library services across the city of Birmingham.

The Birmingham Public Library spent $4,435 on a six-month national search for a new library director that resulted in no one being hired. No outside search firm was conducted to perform the ...

and Martin Luther King Jr. before their arrest in Birmingham (Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library; Deborah Fallows) There have been a few times during our travels across the country for the ...

Lumpklin is looking to follow her aunt Sundra Escott Russell, the first African American woman elected to the Alabama Senate.

To anyone else, the horizontal beam of white was just another part of the recently finished expansion to Birmingham’s Baldwin Public Library. But to city resident David Bloom, a Ford Motor Co ...

"People risked their lives here," says Jim Baggett, archivist for the Birmingham Public Library. Baggett says the violence and brutality of the police here focused the country on what needed to ...