🎃 This Halloween, join us for a night with Emil Ferris, creator of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters! Costumes encouraged! Thurs, Oct 31, 5:30 PM The Michigan & State Theaters. Partners: @vaultofmidnight | Ann Arbor District Library | @umichlibrary 👻 #PennyStampsSeries #emilferris More: pennystampsevents.org

When the library books a celebrity who travels with a puppet, in addition to interviewing the celebrity, we obviously must invite the puppet to be on our puppet talk show. Huge thanks to Andy “Brak & other things” Merrill 🪷 💙 for visiting Ann Arbor District Library and indulging us! youtube.com/watch?v=4kcYki…

Walking around with a rare and highly-sought S.G. Narwhalpants perched proudly upon your shoulder: now that’s scary! Happy Halloween!

So excited to be taking this first step towards an amazing new Downtown Library on its current site for the people of the AADL district. Rezoning the current site opens up new approaches to the project that will benefit the whole community! mlive.com/news/ann-arbor…

Please join us at 6 PM on Saturday 11/16, to welcome former Simpsons showrunner, food personality, and collectible vinyl toy impresario BILL OAKLEY to the Downtown Library! Bill's work is a delight across many media, and a fun evening is a surety! aadl.org/node/629419

Please join us at the Downtown Library at 6:30 tonight for music and refreshments to celebrate the dedication of a new Black History Bicentennial Mural! Local artists were asked to reinterpret images from AADL Archives and the results are spectacular: aadl.org/blackhistorymu…

This weekend, Michigan Football and Northwestern Football face off for the George Jewett Trophy, celebrating the legacy of George Jewett Jr.—the first African-American college football player in FBS history.

The U–M Summer Symposium in Theoretical Physics brought great minds to A2 for 15 years between WWI & WWII. One evening in 1939, Enrico Fermi tried to convince his friend Werner Heisenberg not to return to Germany, where he would be compelled to help Nazis develop nuclear weapons.

Our Ann Arbor 200 Bicentennial project wraps up this month, including: -A weekly documentary film fest -A new play about Theoretical Physics -A LEGO recreation of the county courthouse -The history of Mime in Ann Arbor IN MIME -Release of a new Hip Hop history track and more!

This Saturday Downtown we've got 2 big Bicentennial events! Join us at Noon to help us build the new LEGO courthouse around the old LEGO courthouse, as in 1954. Then at 2 PM, it's the world premiere of LAST SUMMER, a new play about Fermi and Heisenberg in Ann Arbor in 1939.

Hugely excited to release a new track from Athletic Mic League as part of our Ann Arbor 200 bicentennial project. Big thanks to Jamall Bufford and company for producing this track about their history. Download it now: aadl.org/madehistory

As Ann Arbor's bicentennial year comes to a close, we're featuring Ann Arbor 200 projects that'll appeal to history lovers of all ages! Taking it back to #5...Rick Cocco's 'Recapturing Ann Arbor' documents our ever-changing city with then-and-now images. aadl.org/recapturingann…

Ann Arbor 200 project #152 is both a map and a work of art. The Natural Ann Arbor Map by Marcy Marchello focuses on the nature of Ann Arbor, highlighting the Huron River, parks, trails, and wildlife in hand-drawn illustrations and text. → aadl.org/naturalannarbor

Ann Arbor 200 project #109 features Bobby and the Old Professor, a beloved science series created by R. Ray Baker with help from U-M experts. Each week, the series simplified science for kids, covering subjects like radios, ancient pottery, & volcanos. 🔬 aadl.org/bobbyandtheold…

2025 seems like a great time to start a blog. So, I'm restarting the AADL Director's Blog! For my first post, I look back over our Bicentennial Project, highlighting my favorites. There are so many of them! So, here are my Top 100 of the Ann Arbor 200: aadl.org/aa200top100

The Kids Area at the Downtown Library has closed for about 8 weeks of updates and reorganization! In the meantime, we’ve got a temporary Kids Room set up in the Lobby. Read all about it on my blog: aadl.org/node/636931

With what's happening at IMLS, we've been getting some questions about how this might impact Ann Arbor District Library. Once I started writing about all the good that IMLS does, I couldn't stop. So here's 2500 words on what IMLS does for us all. aadl.org/whatIMLSdoes

AADL is proud to announce a new opportunity for the community. Applications are now open for the Downtown Library Lobby Shops: small, short-term, very inexpensive downtown retail space inside the Downtown Library. Apply by 6/1! More info here: aadl.org/lobbyshops