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January 24, 2024

Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureateship Extended

The Mercantile Library announces the reappointment of Professor Yalie Saweda Kamara as Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate for 2024. During her 2022-’23 Laureateship, Kamara...

January 24, 2024

Celebrating the Launch of BESAYDOO

Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Yalie Saweda Kamara celebrated the launch of her award-winning highly acclaimed, debut full-length poetry collection BESAYDOO, at the Contemporary...

January 05, 2024

The Mini-Merc Opens

2024 is off to an incredibly exciting start for your Mercantile Librarians. 2023 ended with our packing up our desks, artwork, office supplies, and books in...

January 04, 2024

BIG NEWS

MERCANTILE LIBRARY ANNOUNCES TEMPORARY MOVE TO NEW SPACE AS PART OF HISTORIC EXPANSION PROJECT The Mercantile Library is temporarily relocating its staff and some books to...

December 18, 2023

Connecting the Dots: Community Partners

We didn’t have to look far to find spaces for the Mini-Merc and some of our events. As a matter of fact, less than a...

November 08, 2022

The Tale of an Art-Carved Library Table

There’s a new piece of furniture in the Reading Room, an ornately carved library table with a motif of acanthus leaves, that’s right at home...

November 07, 2022

100+ Books Loved by Mercantile Readers

If you’ve visited the Library in the last couple of years, you might have noticed that one of the windows looking into the lobby was...

June 08, 2022

Britini Bicknaver uncovers a paradise Lost and found at the Library

I was sixteen when I first went to the Mercantile Library. My uncle brought me as he was teaching me how to drive and used...