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Lexington, Kentucky (April 12, 2023) – The Lexington Public Library will be Fine Free for all materials, effective immediately, following a vote at today’s regularly scheduled monthly board meeting. Lexington Public Library customers will no longer incur fines for late, damaged, or lost library materials. Additionally, the Library has forgiven all current, outstanding fines
Elmer L. Foote Lantern Slide Collection
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Celebrate Black History Month at LPL
Throughout February, join us as we celebrate Black history with programs, materials, podcasts, and more.
The Lexington Public Library is home to four collaborative creative spaces for making, learning, exploring, and sharing. These spaces offer a variety of events, high-tech and low-tech equipment for patron use, and serve as a space to build community, explore your creativity, and develop personal interests.
Sample projects
Film a music video, 3D print a fidget toy, digitize old family photos, sew a costume or mend your favorite pair of pants, embroider a t-shirt, comb bind a book, start a podcast, record in the audio booth, create content with the green screen, make custom magnets or buttons, engrave a keychain, print a poster, make custom stickers, and more.
The Undesign the Redline project unearths the deep and systemic history of structural racism and inequality in the United States. This interactive exhibit explores policies like Redlining, their implications for today, and what we can do to undesign them.
The exhibit was created by social impact design studio designing the WE and has been invited to dozens of cities across the country. A local advisory group has helped to produce local history and stories about Redlining in Lexington.
Trying to find a book and want to search libraries all over the world, all at once? WorldCat Discovery is the library catalog for you. Provided by the Kentucky Virtual Library.
Katherine Pettit Diary
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Judge Kenneth Lyons Collection
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Lexington Weekly Press (1881)
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Sam'l D. M'Cullough's Reminiscences of Lexington
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Voyages, Adventures and Situation of the French Emigrants, translated by A Lady
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Duncan-Goff Scrapbook Collection
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The William Stamps Farish, III Theater at the Central Library is available to the community for lectures, live music, community forums, film festivals, small theatrical productions, dance performances, literary readings, debates, and other creative uses.
Muhlenberg County Black Marriages Book c.1866
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The Kentucky Reporter (1817-1830)
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Miscellaneous Newspapers
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The Reporter (1808-1817)
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Events and Pamphlets
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The Daily Argonaut (1895-1899)
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The Independent Gazetteer (1803-1804)
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Keller J. Dunn Photograph Collection
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Bath County Memorial Library Collection
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Congregations and Religious Materials Collection
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Imperial Court of Kentucky
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Black Community News