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To highlight Banned Books Week (October 4-10, 2026) this blog post remembers Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh President Samuel Harden Church and his ceremonial protest of Nazi bookburnings.

Thanks to your support, teens like Trinity have access to academic and career assistance at the Library all year long, so they’re ready to seize new opportunities and follow their dreams.

If you have a horror fan in your life, you know that we just can’t get enough. More gore, more monsters and more fear! Pittsburgh has a rich horror history … Continued

Getting into poetry can feel like discovering a secret club that you absolutely do not feel cool enough to be at!

On March 1, 1937, broom maker Charles Scott scaled a massive bale of hay in a third-floor workshop of the Pittsburgh Blind Association (PBA) and rang a large bell.

Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt was Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s first Black librarian and worked at CLP from 1944-1949.

Check out this playlist featuring music from Pittsburgh’s most famous Black jazz artists.

In December of 2022, members of Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) presented a tribute celebration honoring the legacy of the late Vivian Davidson Hewitt in CLP – Homewood Auditorium.

Learn about the specifics of the First Amendment, how censorship has been defined and challenged over time, and what all of this means to private companies and on social media.

There are a number of things parents and caregivers can do to support the development of their child’s early literacy skills. Among them are five simple practices: singing, talking, reading, writing, and playing.