Literacy is customarily contrasted with orality (oral tradition), which encompasses a broad set of strategies for communicating through oral and aural media. In real world situations, however, literate and oral modes of communication coexist and
The Oshkosh Public Library will be closed on Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 due to library classes. We will reopen on Friday, January 23rd, 2015 for regular business hours.
The Upper and Lower Reading Rooms in the Old Library will also open 11am-5pm on the first Sunday of each vacation (Sunday 4 December 2016; Sunday 12 March 2017 and Sunday 18 June 2017). See below for forthcoming closed periods.