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The Midwest City Library began in the 1950s with a collection of donated books. By the 1960s it was located in a 4500-square-foot area at the Municipal Golf Course and had became a part of the Metropolitan Library System. In the 1980s a bond issue was passed and the current 36,000-square-foot facility was built and opened in September of 1987. On permanent display in the lobby is the painting Summer Skies, Oklahoma by Wilson Hurley.
Book drop: Drive-thru bookdrop in circle drive on south side of building
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Collection |
- 80,000 fiction and nonfiction items for adults and children including hardback and paperback books, periodicals, books on compact discs, DVDs, and music compact disc.
- Reference materials for in-library use
- Computer access to the library system's collection of 1,000,000 items
 Free Wireless Internet- Vertical files
- Materials to support literacy programs
- Materials via interlibrary loan
- Career materials collection
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 Services |
- Reference assistance
- Computers with production software, childrens software, and Internet access.
- Meeting rooms for public use, reservations required
- Tours and instruction in the use of library resources
- Copy machine
- Quiet reading room
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| Programs |
Weekly Preschool Storytimes (ages 3-5)
Weekly Lapsit Play and Storytimes (ages 10 months-3 years)
- Weekly Game Day
- Monthly Toddler Aerobics (ages 3-5)
- Monthly Book Bug Club (grades 1-3)
- Monthly Kids Book Club (grades 3-6)
- Monthly Young Writers Club (grades 4-6)
- Monthly T.A.L.K.: Teens Advising Library Keepers (ages 11 and up)
- Community quilting classes, meets weekly
- Special holiday programs for all ages
- Summer reading program along with special children's summer programs
- Traveling exhibits and art displays
Monthly flyers with detailed information are available in the library.
Located in the library: Literacy Link Office, offering adult literacy classes to the people of eastern Oklahoma County. (phone 732-2737) |
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