Yearly Archives: 2017


February Special Events Library

February Special Events at the Oakland Public Library (Children’s Dept.)      The Oakland Garden Club will be visiting the Library on Thursday, February 9 from 3:45 to 4:30 p.m.  Oakland children, ages 5 & up, will be making a valentine surprise for their favorite person.  The program will be held […]


Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. As Reviewed by Ted Odenwald Thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash hit, “Hamilton,” the biography which inspired that play has resurfaced as a must-read (or re-read) work. Ron Chernow’s methodical research and incisive analysis has produced a vivid portrait of the life […]


January 2017 Events at the Library

January Special Events at the Oakland Public Library (Children’s Dept.) Tots Library Club is an unstructured, early literacy experience for 0 to 24-month-olds and their caregiver. TLC will be held on Thursdays in the Oakland Public Library’s story gallery starting Thursday, January 19, and ending June 8. Come for playtime […]