News & Media

Welcome to the Dormont Public Library news center. Please click the links below to learn more about current and ongoing news and events.

• “Delivering Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ to Readers World-Wide” (Wall Street Journal – Friday, July 10, 2015)
• “Bookstores Get Ready for ‘Watchman’ Release” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Sunday, July 12, 2015)
• “Book Launch Party” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Thursday, July 16, 2015)
• “Library marks 70th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Friday, July 24, 2015)
• “Sights and Sounds – ‘Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 70 Years Later'” (South Hills Almanac – Wednesday, July 29, 2015)
• “Dormont library program to pay tribute to Japanese culture” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Thursday, July 30, 2015)
• “Pittsburgh events commemorate 1945 nuclear bombings of Japan” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Thursday, August 6, 2015)
• “No Hindi takers, but conversations still planned at Dormont library” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Friday, August 7, 2015)
• “Hiroshima and Nagasaki – English” (Ameblo.jp – August 12, 2015 – original text by Yoko Motoyama, translation by Mayumi Loper)
• “Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Japanese” (Ameblo.jp – August 12, 2015 – original text by Yoko Motoyama, translation by Mayumi Loper)
• “Dormont Library and the Japan-America Society Commemorate 70 Years Since the Atomic Bomb” (InCommunity Keystone Oaks – Fall 2015)
• “Libraries Across Western PA Offer Coloring Classes for Adults” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – October 28, 2015)
• “Dormont’s Sugarplum House Tour Spotlights 100-to-120-year-old Homes” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – November 25, 2015)
• “Sugarplum House Tour to Benefit Dormont Public Library” (South Hills Almanac – November 27, 2015)
• “Adult Coloring Books Test Grown-ups’ Ability to Stay Inside the Lines” (Wall Street Journal – December 27, 2015)
• “Upcoming Book Launch Events for Theresa Brown’s The Shift” (Littsburgh – Monday, May 2, 2016)
• “Letter from the Director of the Hiroshima Peace Promotion Division to Dormont Public Library” (May 9, 2016)
• “Dormont Library gets grant to build retaining wall, handicapped ramp” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – May 27, 2016)
• “Luke Skywalker acquitted on all charges by Pittsburgh-area ‘jury'” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 13, 2019)
• “Some libraries slowly reopening their doors” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – March 28, 2021)
• “Allegheny County libraries will get a technology update in the coming months” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – February 24, 2024)