Four Dallas Public Library branches could be on the chopping block this year. The Oak Lawn Branch, the Skyline Branch in the ...

Would you pay a $250 fee for a library card? The Dallas Morning News reader Mark Holtz wondered why the Dallas Public Library ...

On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council voted in a 10-5 straw poll to support a budget amendment allocating about $386,000 to keep the Skillman Southwestern Library open an additional year. Dallas City ...

After almost three decades of serving the community, the Skillman Southwestern Library is closing Saturday. Last week, the Dallas City Council approved a $5.2 billion budget, which included $43 ...

Sarah and daughter Anna Evans attend a budget town hall to ask questions about proposed branch closures and express support for public libraries on Aug. 19, 2025, at the Martin Luther King Jr.

We all know that public libraries are where you go to check out books, but did you also know it can be a great place to get a little TLC for beloved stuffed animals? KERA’s Morning Edition host Andrew ...

Dallas Public Library leaders always knew they’d have to get “creative” to make the library system outlined in a massive, 20-year facilities plan approved by the Dallas City Council last year a ...

In the heart of downtown Dallas sits the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library. If you venture onto the seventh floor into a darkened back room, you’ll find a piece of what July Fourth is all about: an ...

Dallas Public Library officials say the effort to digitize hundreds of artifacts associated with Juanita Craft, a civil rights leader and former Dallas City Council member, is on pause due to federal ...

The future of funding that supports family reading programs, technology classes for job seekers, digitization of local archives and other library programming across Texas is unclear following a recent ...

I know it’s mid-September. Still, we’re roughly a month and a half away from Halloween, which in Texas means trying to figure out if your child needs a cold-weather costume or a hot-weather costume.