In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Bristow Public Library is happy to announce the opening of their new genealogical, Indigenous, and local history research resource for the Bristow area. This Bristow Library Board Inc. funded project is known as the Choska Talfa Room pronounced 'chus kuh / tall fuh'. This Grand Opening come-and-go event is November 30th, from 11:31 a.m. to 12:31 p.m. This event is free and open to the public with light refreshments. Bristow Public Library is located on the North side of 7th Street, across from Bristow City Hall.
Choska Talfa means 'Place of the Post Oaks' in the Muscogee language and is what the Bristow area was called by its earliest Muscogee Nation inhabitants. The newly overhauled room houses the library's growing collections of research materials pertaining to tribal and early Oklahoman histories. The Choska Talfa Room is organized using the new Fus Fixico Classification System, a classification system contrived by Bristow Public Library's very own Director, Heather Hutto, and Local History Librarian, Amanda Harding. This new classification system is specifically designed for tribal and Oklahoma history collections. This system was created over the last year and has been operating in beta since June. The Fus Fixico Classification System is meant to grow in tandem with improved Library of Congress subject headings.
Please come support our local library, local historians, and our new Friends of the Library group this month.
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Montfort & Allie B. Jones Memorial Library Bristow Public Library 111 West 7th Ave. Bristow, OK 74010 (918) 367-6562 joneslibrarybristow@gmail.com