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News
July 3rd & 4th: Holiday Hours
The library will close at 5:00 pm on Thursday, July 3rd. We will be closed on Friday, July 4th in observance of the Independence Day holiday and will reopen for regular hours on Saturday, July 5th at 1:00 pm.
Lactation/Meditation Room at the Library
The library has a private room available for lactation, nursing, and meditation purposes. The room features a lounge chair, side table, desk, coat closet, floor lamp, power outlets, a white noise machine, a meditation cushion, a meditation bench, a prayer mat, and a yoga mat. Reservations can be made online at https://ou-tulsa.libcal.com/reserve/lactation.
Exhibits
Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America
Meals can tell us how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders, and classes. Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America looks at the Chesapeake region, during the early colonial era, where European settlers relied upon indentured servants, Native Americans, and African slave labor for life-saving knowledge of farming and food acquisition, and to gain economic prosperity. It is through the labor of slaves, like those at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, that we can learn about the ways that meals transcend taste and sustenance.
Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture

Under the leadership of Bruce Goff (1904-82), Herb Greene (b. 1929), Mendel Glickman (1895-1967), and many others, OU faculty developed a curriculum that emphasized individual creativity, organic forms, and experimentation. This radical approach to design drew students to Oklahoma from as far away as Japan and South America and later spread the American School influence to their practices in California, Hawaii, Japan, and beyond.