Metro Special Collections & Research

It's a great time to be a film fan during the annual festival! (Photograph from 2010, via the Nathan Poppe Collection)

The Local History Readalong continues. Whether you're following along on your own or via Storygraph, make sure to read something colorful this month for Pride!

Today in History: We had to double-check our math, just in case, but this poster from the 1994 Paseo Arts Festival is 32 years old today!
(from the Paseo Arts Association Collection)

conGRADulations to any and all graduates out there!
(Image from May 4, 1932, via the Jones Historical Society Collection)

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Millennial vs Gen Z captions, featuring items from the Dunning Collection.

New month, new UMAmi zine!

Our local history readalong continues celebrating May as Older Americans Month! Check out an autobiography, one of these compilations, or any of our hundreds of personal history interviews to hear the unique wisdom of our community elders.

We're not saying the Belle Isle Library was intentionally modeled after the Millennium Falcon, but we're not *not* saying it.... For adventures in galaxies near and far, plus plenty of nerdy friends who are always willing to help fight the empire, we go to the library.

The two print workers for The Daily Oklahoman in this photograph from 84 years ago look like they could tell some stories. (Image via the Dunning Collection)

We asked Metropolitan Library System Poet Laureate Hallie Waugh for her picks in honor of National Poetry Month, and she delivered!