The Oak Lawn Branch of the Dallas Public Library, located at 4100 Cedar Springs Road in the Kroger parking lot, is one of four branch libraries in the city being recommended for closure, according to an email, dated Jan. 16, from Dallas Public Library Director Manya Shorr to “Dallas Public Library Shareholders.”
The other three branches Shorr is recommending be closed are the Renner Frankford branch at 6400 Frankford Road, Arcadia Park at 1302 North Justin Ave., and Skyline at 6006 Everglade Road, which has been closed since last Oct. 2, according to the Dallas City Library website.
The closures come in the wake of the adoption of the 2026 city budget which, according to a press release posted on the library website last October to announce the Skyline branch closure, left the library “not funded at a level to provide impactful, meaningful service at 28 locations and eight floors at the Central Library.”…