Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War

"Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War"  is a traveling exhibition that will come to the Lawton Public Library February 29, 2012-April 13, 2012. We are proud to be one of 200 libraries chosen to host this exhibit.

The following 10 minute video gives interesting and detailed information about the exhibit.



The exhibition was developed by the National Constitution Center in collaboration with the American Library Association. It travels around the country with funds provided by the National Endowment for Humanities grant: great ideas brought to life.

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Library Closed on Halloween

No, we aren't closing for a Trick-or-Treat celebration.  Our Interim Library Director, Assistant City Manager Bryan Long, explains it clearly in the following email:

Please be advised that due to required training to implement the new and improved electronic/online catalog system the Library will not be open to the public on October 31^st.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, however, we are confident that you will agree that once completed this system will provide an invaluable service to the patrons of our Library.

Thank you for your understanding,

Bryan P. Long

Assistant City Manager

City of Lawton

Golden Girls and Guys Day Out

GG&G Day Out is an extension of the library's Mobile Book Service. It provides senior adults an opportunity to fill their day with laughter, entertainment, knowledge, good food and "recapture the sparkle in life."

This monthly program gets seniors out of their homes and into the library to enjoy a new program each month. Light refreshments are served and door prizes are given away. Guests or performers educate, entertain and enrich the lives of the seniors.

Support for this program comes from the Friends of the Library. The Library and the Friends hope Golden Girls and Guys Day Out will provide seniors with life-long learning tools to improve the quality of their lives. Most of all, we want the seniors to have a great day out!

The program for August is:

77th Army Brass Band

August 18, 2011

12:00-2:00 p.m.

Owens Multi-Purpose Center

1405 SW 11th St

Lawton, OK

For more information, contact 580-581-3450 ext. 3

Tree Tracer: Angie Debo

by Paul Follett, 580-581-3450, ext. 6

Come meet Oklahoma’s greatest historian – Angie Debo

“Angie Debo is Oklahoma’s greatest historian,” so proclaims former Governor Brad Henry.  I agree, if not the greatest, she is at least my favorite.

The Southwestern Oklahoma Historical Society and the Lawton Public Library offer a chance to view Angie Debo through the eyes of interpreter Laurette Willis.  Willis will portray Debo Tuesday evening, Aug. 9, at the Worley Center, Great Plains Technology Center located at 4500 SW Lee, Lawton.

The program begins at 7:00 pm with a musical presentation by the 2010 Western Heritage Wrangler Award winner, LeRoy Jones.

Angie Debo was a noted scholar specializing in Native American and Oklahoma History.  Known as a troublemaker for much of her life, she offers an unflinchingly honest portrayal of Native American history.   Today she is regarded as an authority in her field.

Due to her gender, Debo was unable to secure a university position, a place where she rightfully belonged.  Debo taught high school for many years and later taught at the West Texas Teacher’s College.

As an independent scholar, Debo authored and co-authored 13 books and hundreds of articles, some of them controversial at the time.  Her most important title is the classic And Still the Waters Run: the Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes a scathing indictment of Indian allotment policy and practice designed “to swindle tribal members out of their land.”

Completed in 1936, the book was so controversial that the University of Oklahoma Press refused to publish it.  The book finally appeared in print in 1940 with Princeton University Press as publisher.  As a result of the book’s publication, Debo was barred from teaching in Oklahoma for several years.

She earned a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago in 1923.  Women were not accepted into history programs at that time, effectively barring them from the profession.

Her Ph.D. is in history, awarded by the University of Oklahoma in 1933.  Her dissertation, “The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic” was published by the University of Oklahoma Press.  While controversial, the book did receive the John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association.

Today Angie Debo is recognized as an important historical voice.  She is the recipient of the 1988 Scholarly Distinction award offered by the American Historical Association.

She published her last book at age 85, a biography of Geronimo.

Come learn more about this amazing and heroic Oklahoma historian and scholar and one remarkable woman on August 9th at the Great Plains Technology Center.

Portrayer Laurette Willis is an award-winning actor, playwright, and director of DoveTale Productions with over twenty-five years in the entertainment business. She is known for bringing history to life in over 20 original one-woman shows for a variety of community and historical organizations.

Since 2007, she directed and performed in the outdoor drama “Under the Cherokee Moon,” which she wrote for the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah.



Tree Tracer is a column written by Paul Follett and published in the Lawton Constitution newspaper.

Blu-Ray DVDs

The library now has Blu-ray DVDs, a disc format for displaying high definition (HD) video. A Blu-ray player is required to view these DVDs.

The Blu-rays are shelved with the regular DVDs in a fairly bright blue container that is smaller than the DVD holder. They have a sticker at the top of the spine that says “Blu-ray.”



Three Blu-rays* may be checked out for a week on one card.

*Since regular DVDs and Blu-ray DVDs are the same format, you are allowed three DVDs in any combination for one week on one card.
(For example: one regular DVD and two Blu-ray DVDs would equal the three DVDs on one card)

Questions?  Leave us a comment.


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Standing Order Drops

Due to the current economic situation and lack of funds, we have decided to discontinue the following resources:

Telephone books
American Universities & Colleges
Artists & Graphic Designers Market
Christmas with Southern Living
Congressional Staff Directory
Federal Staff Directory
All Fodor's & Forbes Travel Guides
Job Hunters Sourcebook
Paper Money of the United States
Photographers Market
Woodall's (all 3 drop)
Songwriters Market
Biography for Beginners
College Blue Book
New York Times Book Review
American Library Directory
iPage Professional
Best Ideas for Christmas
Christmas Ideas
Holiday Crafts
Current Biography
BOOKPAGE
Play Index

A Night with Angie Debo

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