Members of the press are invited to contact us about arranging interviews with our expert staff, visiting library buildings, attending programs, or learning about the many services YDL offers the community.
For media inquiries, please contact:
Sam Killian
Community Relations Coordinator
734-879-1303
[email protected]
Recent Press Releases
Your Library Card Packs a Punch
Last September, YDL issued over 400 new library cards. This year, you can help us make National Library Card Sign-up Month even bigger! Since 1987, September has marked an annual effort to get a library card in as many hands as possible. This year, the American...
A Garden for a Rainy Day
YDL-Superior has a new rain garden to learn from.
Reading Together Downtown
The Ypsilanti District Library will have super-charged storytimes downtown this summer, thanks to an initiative funded by the Ann Arbor Rotary Club. The $4,900 grant is is sponsoring YDL's Reading Together Downtown initiative. Now that YDL-Michigan has reopened, YDL...
Recent Media Coverage
Library social worker connects patrons with resources and a listening ear
May 20, 2025
Concentrate story about our social worker
Ypsilanti's downtown library will open next week after lengthy delays - MLive.com
April 12, 2025
MLive spreads the news that the downtown branch will reopen April 14
2 years after flooding, see inside Ypsilanti's renovated downtown library - MLive.com
March 15, 2025
MLive shares pictures of the downtown branch as it approached reopening in April
Bethany Kennedy focuses on service as Ypsilanti library board trustee
March 2, 2025
The Eastern Echo shares an interview with library board President Bethany Kennedy
This Michigan project celebrates the rich history of community farmers and gardeners
March 1, 2025
PBS covers the work of our Ypsi Farmers & Gardeners Oral History Project.
Ypsi library's youth chess club adds rated tournaments and supports female players with new grant
February 26, 2025
Concentrate story about our chess club grant from the US Chess Federation
Eastern Michigan University and Ypsilanti District Library collaborate to provide social work services to community
February 12, 2025
EMU Today coverage of the EMU/YDL social work collaboration
15 Black History Month events coming to Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti
January 31, 2025
MLive lists YDL events as part of their Black History Month highlights.
Ypsilanti District Library seeks position for on-site social worker
January 30, 2025
WEMU covers our search for a Library Social Worker
Library social worker? New Ypsilanti role handles patrons with ‘life challenges’
January 27, 2025
Library social worker? New Ypsilanti role handles patrons with ‘life challenges’
Ypsilanti District Library adding social worker to help connect patrons with resources
January 23, 2025
Fox 2 Detroit covers our social worker grant.
The Hate U Give, American Fiction: Ypsilanti library’s most borrowed books of 2024
January 21, 2025
MLive reveals YDL’s most borrowed books of 2024
Plant a seed, foster growth with WCC’s seed library
January 15, 2025
Washtenaw Voice calls out the YDL Seed Library
Digitize, preserve your family history at the Ypsilanti library
January 15, 2025
MLive covers our program where patrons could digitize family photos and documents.
Recent Staff Publications
Submission in Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education
2021
In the latest issue of Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education, Catherine Calabro Cavin from 826michigan, Cathy Fleischer and Ann Blakeslee, from Eastern Michigan University and Mary Garboden from YDL talk about how they created and sustain YpsiWrites, a community writing center that supports youth and adults.