The new library location is in Historic Greenwood and just a half mile from the current site.
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Quick Facts:
- Name will stay Rudisill Regional Library
- B.S. Roberts Park will remain south of E. King St.
- 33,000 sf New Building
African American Resource Center
The new building creates a dedicated space for the African American Resource Center that is featured prominently along Greenwood Ave. The center embodies the spirit of Sankofa by, “going back to the past in order to build for the future.” The past is represented in the Sankofa Freedom Award Winner’s wall display, images of Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District, and by relocating the existing lobby’s art piece into the new AARC. The center will also feature a series of display cases that will be curated with changing artifacts and exhibits that will offer new surprises during each visit and allow the AARC to continue to feel new and fresh into the future.
Genealogy is returning to Rudisill Regional Library. The African American Resource Center will house an extension of our larger Genealogy Resource Center, which is located at Hardesty Regional Library. This center will focus on African American ancestry with physical materials as well as computers dedicated to online genealogy resources for customers.
BOK Harmony Hall Event Center
A new Event Center will be added to the second floor of the building. The Event Center will be one of the largest meeting spaces in the Tulsa City-County Library system.
Children’s Area and Jeanne B. Goodwin Storytime Room
One of the largest areas to grow in the renovated design will be the children’s area that will nearly double in size. The children’s area will feature interactive, learning walls and will contain the new Jeanne B. Goodwin Storytime Room.
