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Lexington Public Library Collection
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These tours are guided audio walking tours with a variety of topics focused on Downtown Lexington, KY. Music will play in between each stop, and the listener can pause the track while walking between stops.
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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
A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places .
Elmer L. Foote Lantern Slide Collection
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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.
Lexington Weekly Press (1881)
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Government Documents Collection
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Historic St. Paul Catholic Church
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The True American (1845-1847)
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The Kentucky Reporter (1817-1830)
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Father William T. Punch Letter Collection
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The Reporter (1808-1817)
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Muhlenberg County Black Marriages Book c.1866
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Duncan-Goff Scrapbook Collection
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Cyrus Parker Jones Funeral Notices
Congregations and Religious Materials Collection
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Sam'l D. M'Cullough's Reminiscences of Lexington
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United States Army Armor School, Fort Knox Yearbook Collection
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Voyages, Adventures and Situation of the French Emigrants, translated by A Lady
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Directory Collection
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Judge Kenneth Lyons Collection