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Learn a New Language for Free with Transparent Language!

With Transparent Language Online you can learn more than 80 languages including English.  Whether basic or advanced, use it for free online or with the mobile app.  Just sign in with your library card!

Click here to start learning a new language!

The Annual Report is Here!

The Oakland Public Library's 2011-2012 Annual Report is here!  We have accomplished so much, with your support, and we would love to share the story of a year of successes with you.  

Click here for the full report

Visit museums & more for free with your OPL card

Our new Discover & Go program allows you to get free passes to local museums and cultural institutions with your library card. A few of our participating partners are: Asian Art Museum, California Academy of Sciences, California Shakespeare Theater, Exploratorium, Oakland Museum of California, Pacific Pinball Museum, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Click here to learn more about Discover & Go

Upcoming Events

Tuesday
May
21

Computer Tutor Available

Dimond Branch, 12:30pm
Tuesday
May
21

Food Stamp Program

Asian Branch, 2:30pm

From Our Blogs

In Abundance: authors explore how we got fat.

This year's Summer Reading theme: “Reading is So Delicious” got me thinking and reading about what an abundance of delicious may do to our bodies.
 
Two journalists and a doctor, all residents of the Bay Area, tackle just this subject.
 
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