About Downtown Library
The four-story Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library is located in the Arts District of downtown Oklahoma City. Library service in downtown OKC first began in 1901 when the Carnegie Library opened at NW 3rd and Robinson Ave. In 1954, the new Main Library was dedicated at Dean A. McGee Ave and Robinson Ave. On December 14, 1993, Oklahoma City voters approved a five-year, one-cent increase in the city's sales tax to fund nine building projects for the downtown area (called MAPS) which including a technologically adaptable Downtown Library/Learning Center. The RJN Downtown Library opened to the public on August 17, 2004. The building is 114,130 square feet and includes classrooms, study rooms, conference rooms, a children’s program room, the Route 66 Computer Lab, 46th Star Auditorium, and Friends Event Room. This state-of-the-art library is a great place for Oklahoma County families.
Book drop locations: Walk-up returns on the west and north sides of the building.
Contact Information
300 Park Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK
73102
Phone: (405) 231-8650
Hours of Operation
Monday - Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 6pm
Oklahoma Room
Call for times
Services
- Technology
- Public use computers with internet access and printing capabilities
- Mobile and offsite printing
- Free Wi-Fi
- Color copy machine with outbound fax and scan capability
- One-on-one computer instruction (call for appointment)
- Collections
- Self-serve holds shelf and self-check machines
- Catalog computers dedicated to searching only Metro Library's collection
- Library staff who can provide assistance locating information, using print and electronic sources, and provide readers' advisory
- Place and pick up interlibrary loan requests
- Tours and instruction in use of library resources (by appointment)
- Spaces
- Study rooms - Free (reservations required)
- Meeting rooms - Cost (reservations required)
- Quiet reading room
- Special Collections
- Genealogy Collection
- Holocaust Collection
- Oklahoma Collection
- Topographic maps from the U.S. Geological Survey
- Vertical file, a collection 90 years in the making. Contents include newspaper clippings; meeting and/or annual reports of committees and agencies; flyers and programs; and maps
- Microform collections of newspapers, magazines, and limited numbers of Federal and Oklahoma government publications