Bevins Wins Award for Worthington Article
Alexandra Bevins has received one of Bowling Green State University’s Local History Publication Awards for her article on DPL’s Worthington Project.
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September is Library Card Sign-up Month!
Celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month this September with Defiance Public Library System and the American Library Association.
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A Visit from the First Lady of Ohio!
On Wednesdsay, Sept. 28, Defiance Public Library hosted Fran DeWine, First Lady of Ohio, for a very special visit & storytime session. We were honored to welcome Mrs. DeWine to our lovely library, and thankful she and her team made time to stop by our little jewel at the confluence!
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Children’s Room at JML Gets a Makeover: See the Photos
The Children’s Room at Hicksville’s Johnson Memorial Library was closed to the public from Aug. 26-29 to allow staffers Amber and Karlee to give the space a makeover. The results were revealed Monday, Aug. 30! First, let’s take a look at what the room looked like before Amber and Karlee
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The Summer Reading Challenge is just around the corner!
“Tails & Tales” Summer Reading Challenge begins June 1 at Defiance Public Library System Summer library programs for all ages enhance lifelong learning and provide meaningful, enjoyable experiences available to everyone in the community. This year, Defiance Public Library System is excited to host the Tails & Tales Summer Reading
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Out with the New, in with the Old!
We here at DPLS are exceptionally excited to announce that following nearly a decade in storage at the Defiance Development and Visitors’ Bureau (nine years, to be exact!), the big, beautiful desk that many remember as the centerpiece of our main lobby at the Defiance Public Library has returned! Well,
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Susan is Here!
Here at the Defiance Public Library, we’ve recently welcomed this (unintentionally chilling) cardboard rendering of the indomitable Susan B. Anthony: Susan B. Anthony, committed to social equality, played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement. As such, what better way to encourage curiosity about the history of voting rights,
The Rise and Fall of Julius Caesar…
In case you haven’t heard (and you haven’t, because the info is being shared for the first time on THIS blog RIGHT now), DPLS has a Literary Yarns Scavenger Hunt in the works for the month of September. SO, we’ve been busy bringing some of the characters from Cindy Wang’s
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Welcome!
Welcome to the all-new Defiance Public Library System blog! Thanks for stopping by! Here, we’ll share information and updates from your Defiance County libraries, helpful resources, stories and photos of the fun we’re having in our buildings, occasional library humor (it’s better than it sounds, I promise), and top-secret government
