Birmingham Public Library Blog

The Birmingham Public Library (BPL) will launch its 2025 Grow with Google Small Business Workshop series on Tuesday, May 27, continuing a partnership that began in August 2018, when BPL became the first library system in Alabama selected by Google to host these free digital skills programs. Since then, BPL has offered numerous Grow with Google workshops aimed at helping library patrons, entrepreneurs, and small business owners build essential computer and marketing skills. A Track Record of Digital Empowerment  Past workshops have included:  September 2019 – A city-wide series led by BPL IT staff  October 2019 – Reach Customers Online with Google and Spruce Up Your Holiday Marketing Plan November 2019 – Grow with Google Livestream for veteran-owned businesses  December 2020 – Power Your Job Search with Google Tools  May 2021 – Make Your Website Work for You  June 2021 – Use YouTube to Grow Your Business In June 2019, BPL’s role in bridging the digital divid...

The Birmingham Public Library invites you a special opening reception for two new exhibitions: Electromagnetic Field Gothic   by Ryan Meyer and Portraits of Ghosts  by Thomas Rooney. Join us this Friday, May 9 , at the Central Library to meet the artists and explore their thought-provoking work. The reception will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.  in the Fourth Floor Gallery and is free and open to the public. These exhibitions are part of BPL ’s Art for Everyone  series, which highlights the work of emerging and established artists who live and work in Alabama. They are made possible by a grant awarded to the Friends Foundation of BPL by the Alabama State Council on the Arts . About the Exhibitions Ryan Meyer, Negative Field Electromagnetic Field Gothic is a conceptual typeface project by artist and designer Ryan Meyer. What started as a mark-making style that visualizes the pervasive electromagnetic field, became a system of letterforms and symbols display...