Library Blog

  • Outstanding News: BPL to Receive Libraries Transforming Communities Grant

    Outstanding News: BPL to Receive Libraries Transforming Communities Grant

    The Bristow Public Library is proud to be chosen to be part of Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities, an American Library Association initiative that provides community engagement and accessibility resources to small and rural libraries to help them better serve people with disabilities. Stay tuned for more details. https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2023/05/ala-announces-240-recipients-library-accessibility-funding-small-and-rural Our community members within…


  • Just Getting Started: Library Celebrates Director’s First Anniversary and Accomplishments

    One year ago our soon-to-be director toured our town. A recent graduate from a top library program AND a native small-town Oklahoman, she was eager to find a small community to serve and follow her passion: rural library development. As she toured the facilities, met her governing board, and wandered around the charming and quirky…


  • Staff Picks: Best Pandemic Books

    As this year draws to a close, we can’t help but feel like the last two years have simultaneously blurred together and dragged on for what seems like an era. So this year, we decided to review books we have discovered and enjoyed during the pandemic. While we hope never, ever, to repeat a pandemic,…