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How the Los Angeles Public Library helped readers pick fiction before the internet
The Los Angeles Public Library stores thousands of index cards with staff reviews of books dating back to the 1920s. A ...
Before the internet, how the LA Public Library helped readers pick their next novel
The Los Angeles Public Library stores thousands of index cards with staff reviews of books dating back to the 1920s. A librarian explains how they were used and what we can learn from them today.
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Glendale Central Library to Host Author Talk with Nancy Kricorian
The Glendale Library, Arts & Culture is hosting a conversation with Nancy Kricorian and Shahé Mankerian to discuss her latest ...
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The Los Angeles Public Library offers free services to support immigrant families
The Los Angeles Public Library continues to provide essential support to immigrant families through the New Americans Initiative, a program designed to offer guidance, advice and key resources to ...
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Before the internet, how the LA Public Library helped readers pick their next novel
If you lived in the Los Angeles area, you could reference the Los Angeles Public Library's index of fiction book review cards ... housed in large drawers near the Central Library reference ...
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Letters to the Editor: Relocating priceless Getty collections to downtown would not necessarily ensure their safety
To the editor: Before encouraging the Getty Center and Getty Villa to move holdings to the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles ... that hit the Central Library in 1986 ...
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Micro museums in Inland Empire, LA get closer look in ‘Also on View’
discuss their book “Also on View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles” with interviewer Tom Carroll at the Los Angeles Central Library in Nov. 2024. (Photo by David Allen ...
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Joan Didion made her mark on L.A. Here are 10 places she knew and loved
And whether she intended to or not, Didion has become known as one of Los Angeles’ foremost mythmakers — a conceit that is central to yet another new Didion book, a cultural biography ...
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Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, March 6-14
Santa Barbara International Orchid Show: The 77th annual show, with the 2025 theme “Exotic Gardens,” includes garden exhibits, floral arrangements, marketplace of orchid plants, orchid-theme ...
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Huntington Beach leaders announce plan to fight ACLU lawsuit against library system
Some of these books pertaining to the human body, puberty and toilet training were shelved to be relocated to the library's adult section. Erin Spivey, a plaintiff in the case, was one of the city ...