Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library

The MLK Jr. Memorial Library closed on Saturday, March 4, 2017 for modernization: learn more at dclibrary.org/mlkfuture. Interim services for the MLK Library (including the Library Express location, Special Collections, and the Memory Lab) began on Monday, May 8, 2017. Please visit dclibrary.org/mlkinterim for more information on interim services.

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From London into the Past

Over the summer, I joined a small group tour of Great Britain that started in London. It was a great two weeks! I enjoyed exploring the cities and towns where we stopped along the way. Below is a selection of books I read before I went on the tour. Copies are available from the library system.

Market Selects for September 20

Seasonal, Fresh Titles for Your Consumption

On the third Tuesday of each month, library staff set up shop at the FRESHFARM

Library Takeout

The Fossil Fuel Age and After

If a future historian were to map out the great expanse of human history over thousands of years, the fossil fuel age will have occupied a relatively small blip of time. During just several hundred years, humans will have squandered much of the fossil fuels formed over half a billion years. Yet, however brief this era we currently live in will be, many of us consider its way of life to be normal.

Rebel Readers

Uncensored books for the uncensored mind

Explicit language, homosexuality, politics, violence. Just a few reasons why certain books are deemed unsuitable for society by the "conservative" reader. Imagine what our world be like if we did not have those who dared to push the envelope? As Banned Books Week approaches, let us take some time out of our busy day to honor those authors who not only crossed the line, but erased it. But let's not limit that acknowledgement to authors in the United States. Let's cross our borders and look at writers around the world who shook things up in their homeland. Enjoy!

Tuesday Night Movies

A weekly film series for adults at 6 p.m. in Auditorium A-5.

Don't miss these Tuesday Night Movies! September 6 Money Monster After losing his life savings to bad investment advice from a TV guru, a young man threatens the host and the studio with explosives! Starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Directed by Jodie Foster. 98 mins, 2016. R September 13 Captain America: Civil War

Films

U Street Oral History Project now online

Interviews tell the story of DC's cultural corridor

Now online: our U Street Oral History Project, which gathers first-hand accounts of the historic U Street Corridor neighborhood from its heyday as “Black Broadway” in the 1920s and 1930s through the riots that devastated the area following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the present renewal.

D.C. History

Suicide and Depression in Young Adult Literature

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, suicide is the second leading cause of death in 15-24 year olds and 90% of those who died by suicide had an underlying mental illness such as depression. Suicide and depression can be difficult subjects to approach, but fortunately, many young adult novels dealing these topics have been written in recent years. Books may provide an excellent way to reach out to teens struggling with depression or dealing with it in their family or friends.

Lights! Camera! Uncensored!

Celebrating Banned Books Week Through Film

September 6 The Color Purple, Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library, 6 p.m. September 16 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library, 6 p.m. September 21

Tuesday Night Movies

A weekly film series for adults at 6 p.m. in Auditorium A-5.

Don't miss these Tuesday Night Movies!

Films

150 Historic Maps Added to Dig DC

D.C. History

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Hours

Location

901 G St. NW

Washington, D.C. 20001

202-727-0321

INTERIM SERVICES:

LIBRARY EXPRESS (1990 K St. NW): Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Friday - Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Sunday, Closed

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (including Washingtoniana and Black Studies)

*** Historical Society of Washington (BY APPOINTMENT): Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and one Saturday per month, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Ready Reference Walk-in Hours, Tuesday - Friday, 2-4 p.m. Visit dclibrary.org/node/56712 for details.

*** Library of Congress, Newspaper and Current Periodicals Reading Room (BY APPOINTMENT ONLY): Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.; Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

***Georgetown Library Peabody Room: Monday and Wednesday, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. and second and fourth Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

MEMORY LAB (Located at Northeast Library, 330 7th St., NE.): hours are the same as Northeast Library.