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Catapult presents Public Libraries as an Anti-Poverty Tool: The Role of Libraries in the Fight Against Poverty

CLP - East Liberty 130 S. Whitfield Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Join us to discuss libraries' ever changing role as a safe space that serves our community residents with "cradle to grave" services that are vital to making sure all community residents have access to education, digital inclusivity, community connectivity and even a warm place to rest. How can community organizations, city and county leadership, school … Continued

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Adult Book Buzz

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CLP’s Collection Development Team will share their favorite titles of 2023 and offer a sneak peak of what you’ll see on library shelves this Spring. Registration is required. This program will be offered virtually on Zoom. Register here

Photo portrait of author A.S. King next to the cover of her book, Attack of the Black Rectangles.
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Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Words & Pictures” – A.S. King

CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Register to attend IN-PERSON or WATCH ONLINE. The video link for the livestreamed event will be emailed to all registrants on the day of the lecture. The captioned video will be available to view for one week, expiring on February 29, 2024. In her new book Attack of the Black Rectangles, Amy takes on censorship and intolerance in a … Continued

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County Services Resource Fair

CLP - Homewood 7101 Hamilton Ave, Pittsburgh, United States

Join the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD), Allegheny County Department of Human Services (ACDHS) and other community providers as they provide Narcan as along with substance use and treatment information from local organizations. Participating organizations may include ACHD Overdose Prevention, DHS Drug & Alcohol, JADE Wellness, Pathways to Care & Recovery, Positive Pathways, AHN Perinatal HOPE Program, … Continued

Book cover of Murmur by Cameron Barnett next to his portrait.
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Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Made Local” – Cameron Barnett

CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Murmur A poetry collection that explores the complexity of race and the body for a Black man in contemporary America. The second book by NAACP Image Award finalist Cameron Barnett, Murmur considers the question of how we become who we are. The answers Barnett offers in these poems are neither safe nor easy, as he traces a … Continued

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County Services Resource Fair

CLP - Woods Run 1201 Woods Run Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Join the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD), Allegheny County Department of Human Services (ACDHS) and other community providers as they provide Narcan as along with substance use and treatment information from local organizations. Participating organizations may include ACHD Overdose Prevention, DHS Drug & Alcohol, JADE Wellness, Pathways to Care & Recovery, Positive Pathways, AHN Perinatal HOPE Program, … Continued

Group of adult friends in conversation
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County Services Resource Fair

CLP - Knoxville 400 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Join the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD), Allegheny County Department of Human Services (ACDHS) and other community providers as they provide Narcan as along with substance use and treatment information from local organizations. Participating organizations may include ACHD Overdose Prevention, DHS Drug & Alcohol, JADE Wellness, Pathways to Care & Recovery, Positive Pathways, AHN Perinatal HOPE Program, … Continued

Photo portrait of Edda Fields-Black next to cover art for her book, Combee.
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Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Made Local” – Edda Fields-Black

CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Register to attend in-person. The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants. Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman’s legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the … Continued

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County Services Resource Fair

CLP - Squirrel Hill 5801 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Join the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD), Allegheny County Department of Human Services (ACDHS) and other community providers as they provide Narcan as along with substance use and treatment information from local organizations. Participating organizations may include ACHD Overdose Prevention, DHS Drug & Alcohol, JADE Wellness, Pathways to Care & Recovery, Positive Pathways, AHN Perinatal HOPE Program, … Continued

Photo portrait of Carla Hayden in a purple jacket

Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt Lecture: Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress

CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

This April, during National Library Week, April 7 - 13, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is proud to announce the establishment of the annual Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt Lecture intended to honor and celebrate the first Black librarian at CLP, who served the Hill District community in the 1940s. The inaugural lecture will be presented by … Continued

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Book cover detail from "One Crazy Summer" - Three Black girls in patterned dresses cross a city street
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ALSC 2024 Children’s Literature Lecture Featuring Rita Williams-Garcia:
“A Funny Thing About Memory”

CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, together with the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information, is honored to welcome the Association for Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) 2024 Children’s Literature Lecture presented by bestselling and award-winning author Rita Williams-Garcia. Last held in Pittsburgh in 1989, the ALSC Children’s Literature Lecture is an annual event geared … Continued

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University of Pittsburgh’s Asian Studies Center presents Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History Book Discussion

CLP - Main (Oakland) 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Join The Asian Studies Center team from the University of Pittsburgh for a discussion of Yunte Huang’s biography Daughter of the Dragon about Anna May Wong and her struggles for stardom in Hollywood and her fight against the Asian American stereotypes. This program will take place in the South Wing Reading Room on the second … Continued

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