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Ypsi Stories Episode 27: From Here to There by Land and Water Part II – Railroads for Ypsilanti
Published: July 8, 2025
Episode 27 of Ypsi Stories.
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Spy a Sign, Score a Badge!
Published: July 3, 2025
This summer, keep your eyes peeled. There’s a new way to earn badges in the YDL Summer Challenge! Spot a sign. Crack the code. Make your own.
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Summer Starts With a Win!
Published: June 26, 2025
Meet the First Winners of YDL’s Summer Challenge Weekly Raffle Prizes!
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Temporary text message disruption
Published: June 13, 2025
On June 17, AT&T will discontinue its email-to-text and text-to-email service. This is part of a larger shift away from SMS text messaging by other providers. We are shifting to a new system for delivering YDL notices via text. However, this means there will be a temporary disruption to YDL text message alerts. Please keep an eye on our website and social media for when the text message alerts will continue. Email alerts will continue to be delivered as usual. You are also still able to check your account online.
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Join YDL at Ypsilanti’s Annual Juneteenth Celebration
Published: June 11, 2025
June 19 is Juneteenth, a now-federal holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the U.S.
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Happy Pride Month from YDL!
Published: June 10, 2025
YDL is celebrating Pride Month by including Pride book displays at each of our branches. Read on to find more information about Pride Month and how you can participate.
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Summer Challenge Kickoff Party!
Published: June 9, 2025
YDL Celebrates the Start of Summer Challenge with an awesome Kickoff party!
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Finally Back on the Block!
Published: April 11, 2025
Patrons and library staff can let out a collective breath as the downtown branch (finally) reopens.
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New Lounge seating and Youth Storytime Room upgrades coming soon
Published: March 28, 2025
Rendering and floor plan for the new lounge space at YDL-Whittaker. Click to enlarge the images. Get ready for space upgrades at the Whittaker branch! This summer, you’ll see a brand new lounge space where the Café used to be, and the Youth Storytime Room will become a multi-purpose space for STEM, cooking, and more. We hope the youth space will be complete before the Summer Challenge begins, and the Café space not long after. YDL engaged Daniels & Zermack Architects to design the renovations to the spaces. New Lounge The Café space will become a comfortable lounge seating area …
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How poetic!
Published: March 21, 2025
We’re looking for the most creative poetry you can produce.
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YDL’s Commitment to Accessibility
Published: March 20, 2025
Accessibility Statement The Ypsilanti District Library is committed to providing open and equitable access to all users, by following accessibility standards and responding to user feedback. We recognize that some site visitors may use our website with the assistance of technology such as screen readers and magnifiers, refreshable braille display, and voice recognition; as well as with captioning, transcripts, and other aids and services. We built our website to comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, level AA. After consulting with our web designers, we have discontinued the ReciteMe accessibility toolbar. Research has shown that third-party accessibility overlays, such as …
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Room Reservations have a New Look
Published: March 4, 2025
To avoid overbooking our available space, we ask that you please make a reservation to use a room.
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2025 Family Read and the Spring Challenge
Published: February 19, 2025
We are thrilled to announce The Puppets of Spelhorst as the 2025 Family Read.
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The Bookmobile Has New Stops
Published: February 7, 2025
Spring is the time of rebirth, so YDL is refreshing some of our Bookmobile routes. Since three of our stops have been unattended for some time, we’re breathing new life into those neighborhoods with brand-new ones! Starting Monday, March 3, we will no longer visit Perry School, Oakbrook Park, or Christ Temple. We’re sad to see them go, but we’re ecstatic to announce new Bookmobile stops at Ainsworth & Ferris, Rue Vendome (between Rue Willette & Rue Deauville), and Wendell Holmes Park (by the baseball diamond) off Wendell Road near Holmes Elementary. The new schedule with those stops looks like …
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Black History Month 2025
Published: February 4, 2025
February is Black History Month. This year’s theme is “Black Resistance,” which recognizes and celebrates the resistance of Black people, organizations, and institutions to racism in the past and present.
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Play Bigger! Enjoy the new giant dollhouse at YDL-Whittaker
Published: December 13, 2024
Create new worlds at YDL-Whittaker with the new dollhouse in the Youth Department. The four-story structure is located by the rotating toy area, and stocked with furniture and other items to keep your little ones occupied for hours! The Beal family donated the dollhouse to YDL in 2023, and our Youth Librarian Liz spent a year restoring and resurfacing it to get it ready for action. See the photo gallery for pictures of the various stages of restoration. Click to see pictures of the finished dollhouse and the work in progress
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Access the New York Times online
Published: December 11, 2024
Read the New York Times online for free with your YDL card! YDL now has an online subscription to the New York Times. Get access to articles, recipes, games, and more with your library card. Create a free account, then visit ypsilibrary.org/download for a 24-hour access code*. Need help? Ask at any of our service desks. Create your NYT account Get the 24-hour access code *Must claim each day to continue accessing NYT content Download the NYT app
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Ypsi Stories Episode 26: Ypsi Experimental Space and the Ineffable Spirit of Community Creativity
Published: December 5, 2024
Episode 26 of Ypsi Stories.
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Fiscal Year 2024-25 Annual Budget Hearing
Published: November 8, 2024
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING YPSILANTI DISTRICT LIBRARY County of Washtenaw, Michigan ON THE ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS IN THE LIBRARY DISTRICT OF THE YPSILANTI DISTRICT LIBRARY PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Ypsilanti District Library Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, the twentieth day of November, 2024, at 6:15 p.m. at YDL-Whittaker Road, 5577 Whittaker Road, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197, to consider the approval and adoption of the operating budget of the Ypsilanti District Library for the fiscal year 2024-2025. Copies of the proposed budget are on file …
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MeL temporarily offline starting Oct. 21
Published: October 17, 2024
As part of our catalog integration, MeL requests will shut down as of Monday, October 21. Requesting should come back online in early November. During the outage: Any requests you make before October 21 are still active in the system and will still arrive and be processed. We will still be able to check MeL items in and out during our downtime. New requests will not go through during the outage. You will still be able to log into your MeL account and check request statuses. Once the integration is complete, you will be able to view checked-out MeL items …
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