Creative Experience has the software you need for your next creative project, whether it’s producing a podcast, designing an album cover, or dipping your toes into video game development. But one program we offer that doesn’t quite fall into the “creative project” category is Adobe Acrobat Pro. Creative project or not, Acrobat Pro is available to…

We’ve installed a new exhibit in the Rare Books & Manuscripts reading room that features items from the Theodore C. Link Collection.

Did you know that at least two of this year’s Oscars presenters (Steve Martin and Tom Hanks) are published authors of fiction? Or that actor Sidney Poitier wrot

George Fox Steedman left two legacies in St. Louis.  He is remembered at the St. Louis Public Library for his gift of the Steedman Architectural Library.  This

It's Friday, and it's time to kick off your weekend with some new music releases! These brand new records can be downloaded now, for FREE, with your St. Louis Public Library card.

This month's plant in focus: The Cleome flower

Often someone will walk into the Patent & Trademark Resource Center and say "I'd like to get a patent for my logo". It is easy to confuse patents and trademarks, because they are both intellectual property, and even share an office. However, they protect very different things. A US patent protects one of three things: a…

This two-day expo offers tried-and-true methods for researching Germanic ancestors!

Essays might not the first genre you think of when you're looking for literature to read. An essay, much like a short story, can pack a great deal of punch in f

It's Friday, and it's time to kick off your weekend with some new music releases! These brand new records can be downloaded now, for FREE, with your St. Louis Public Library card.

The Battle of Okinawa was the last major land battle in World War II's Pacific Theater, and ranks as one of the bloodiest contests in either theater. It began o

This month at St. Louis Public Library and across the country, we celebrate Black History Month and its 2020 theme, African Americans and the Vote.

If you are thinking ahead to giving an annual performance review, it's a good time to brush up on giving effective feedback.

Visit Carpenter Library to see displays from local artists!

You can now search for hospital records for Army personnel during WWII or the Korean War—but it really helps to know his / her service number!

While Pennsylvania did not conduct state censuses, it did conduct Septennial Censuses—which sometimes enumerated women and slaves!

If your Union Army or Navy ancestor lived in Kansas after the war, he may be included in this ALE record collection!

If your Civil War ancestor lived in New York State after the war, these New York GAR Records may prove useful indeed!

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and in Center for the Reader we aren't celebrating with flowers or chocolate. Instead we are taking a moment this Febru

Opioids are a class of drugs naturally found in the opium poppy plant.  They can be highly addictive.