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Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest and most diverse urban population of any library in the nation. Tweets en español @laplenespanol .

Los Angeles, California, USA
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How it started How it's going
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As an update, books are still working.
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That's why you don't start celebrating in June.
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San Diego Public Library staff are feeling a bit groggy this morning. Must be from all that sweeping. 🧹 @LAPublicLibrary how are you doing? @Padres @BiblioSzabo
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Raise your hand if you were inspired to read by @levarburton . #NationalLibraryWeek
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And on the second day of #LibraryCardSignUpMonth Keanu was born 🥳🎂🎁
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The library The library with a blue check without a blue check
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With your library card, you can stream or download BTS songs from 2013 to present through Freegal:
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L.A. Public Library
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Guess without any World Series titles you get excited about regular season sweeps. 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑
@SDPublicLibrary
San Diego Public Library
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San Diego Public Library staff are feeling a bit groggy this morning. Must be from all that sweeping. 🧹 @LAPublicLibrary how are you doing? @Padres @BiblioSzabo
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Free 📚 for life for Bellinger. #Dodgers
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The unusual substance falling from the sky is called rain. Learn more about it at the library:
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Should we ever stop retweeting this?
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San Diego Public Library
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San Diego Public Library staff are feeling a bit groggy this morning. Must be from all that sweeping. 🧹 @LAPublicLibrary how are you doing? @Padres @BiblioSzabo
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@jenspeak @sapna @nytimes Just brainstorming here, this new model might include: ∙ An online portal for locating books: ∙ Locations throughout the city: ∙ Services to borrow books, movies, and music online:
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Just putting this out there.
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L.A. Public Library
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Last time the @Lakers and @Dodgers won it all. Feels good to do it again!
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L.A. Public Library
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Lit up for the Purple and Gold.
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We checked the archive and this has happened before. #LARain
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😵‍💫 Still #AlwaysLA
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Los Angeles Public Library has been fine free since 2020
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L.A. Public Library
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@chrissyteigen Have your people get in touch with our people and we'll make this happen.
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To celebrate what would have been Stan Lee's 97th birthday we dug up a few images from the 1998 Comic Art and Animation Festival. #StanLeeForever
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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LA PUBLIC LIBRARY AND LA COUNTY LIBRARY ARE ACTUALLY TOTALLY DIFFERENT LIBRARY SYSTEMS.
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L.A. Public Library
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On the second day of #LibraryCardSignUpMonth Keanu was born. ⁠ ⁠ Learn about all the benefits that come with having the #BestCardInLA at
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Government buildings are the hot music venues of 2021.
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L.A. Public Library
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@Loganchance We'll let that first sentence slide off our backs. Thanks for promoting our services.
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L.A. Public Library
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The #BestCardInLA , but you don't have to take our word for it:
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Lindsay Ellis is an author, Hugo finalist & video essayist who creates online content about media, narrative & film theory. She recently agreed to talk to us about her debut novel "Axiom's End."
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L.A. Public Library
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Always a big supporter of libraries. @TheRealStanLee at the 1998 Comic Art & Animation Festival held at Central Library
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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If you thought your library card was blocked, check it again. We've been clearing overdue fines, and we'd love to welcome you back!
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L.A. Public Library
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"People still use the library?" #DealbreakersIn5Words
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L.A. Public Library
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This Map Explains the Hidden Ways L.A. Places Got Their Names: via @lamag @etymology_nerd
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L.A. Public Library
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Kobe's Bookshelf - We looked through old interviews and social media posts to piece together a reading list of books that inspired the Black Mamba:
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L.A. Public Library
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@JudeAtwood Tilda Swinton as the Central Library Rotunda
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L.A. Public Library
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🎶 BTS – Map of the Soul: 7 🎇 Listen online here 👉 or download the Freegal app & listen with the #BestCardInLA .
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Everyone gets an extra hour of reading today
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L.A. Public Library
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New 👑 The Linda Lindas on our social accounts: #1 Video on YouTube with more views than Real Talk with RuPaul. #1 Instagram post topping Keanu Reeves with a library card. #1 Twitter impressions passing Amanda Gorman inauguration post.
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L.A. Public Library
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@SFPublicLibrary
SF Public Library
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Uhhh you may just be getting warmed up but we're on fire 🔥🔥🔥 @LAPublicLibrary @michaelambert
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Free 📚 for life for Taylor as well.
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L.A. Public Library
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Hope those pearls fit in your carry-on.
@cobblibrary
Cobb County Public Library
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We've all got our pearls on tonight! Go, @braves !! @lapubliclibrary @dodgers #ForTheA
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L.A. Public Library
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Easy choice:
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L.A. Public Library
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The City of Angels is a city of readers! On the Overdrive platform, Los Angeles Public Library is the top-circulating library in the United States for the second year in a row.
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L.A. Public Library
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"Do people still use libraries?"🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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L.A. Public Library
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Regardless of the location, seats are still free at the library.
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L.A. Public Library
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Before Los Angeles, there was Yangna, home to the Tongva people, Native Americans who numbered at least 5,000 in the Los Angeles Basin before the arrival of Europeans: #IndigenousPeoplesDay2020
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L.A. Public Library
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Don't discount the LAPL bump. Amanda Gorman: The Linda Lindas:
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Hey @SFPublicLibrary how are you doing?
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L.A. Public Library
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We are on other social platforms. Find us by our name.
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L.A. Public Library
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Happy Friday the 13th.
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L.A. Public Library
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@SDPublicLibrary @Padres @BiblioSzabo 💀💀💀 We usually reserve our posts for games that really matter.
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L.A. Public Library
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Keanu Reeves' birthday coincides with #LibraryCardSignUp Month. 🤯⁠ ⁠ Sign up for an e-card and enjoy all the digital offerings available from the library:
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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Public libraries, the trusted resource when magnets inexplicably fall off your fridge. #StrangerThings
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L.A. Public Library
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We gave it all we had. #Dodgers Congrats to the Braves and @cobblibrary . Considering who you're playing in the World Series we might kind of be rooting for you. Thanks to everyone for following along, it's been a blast!
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L.A. Public Library
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Tough one to top.
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L.A. Public Library
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Love is telling people about the library.
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L.A. Public Library
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Must have been a glitch because that doesn’t look correct.
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L.A. Public Library
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About 120K less than the Art Basel Banana.
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L.A. Public Library
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LIBBY IS GREAT BUT THERE'S A WHOLE OTHER APP CALLED HOOPLA AND YOU CAN CHECK OUT E-BOOKS, AUDIOBOOKS, AND GRAPHIC NOVELS AND THE BEST PART IS EVERYTHING IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND.
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L.A. Public Library
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One benefit of the 🌧️
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L.A. Public Library
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Been waiting for the right time to bring out the googly eyes.
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L.A. Public Library
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@1followernodad We're adding round the clock staffing to keep an eye on this book stack.
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L.A. Public Library
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The Los Angeles Public Library launched a limited-edition library card to honor P-22 yesterday! Did you get yours? Available now at all locations while supplies last. 🔗
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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We are excited to partner with @NonameBooks to keep you up to date in finding all the selections free of charge. This month they are reading "The Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon and "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi:
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Before Los Angeles, there was Yangna, home to the Tongva people, Native Americans who numbered at least 5,000 in the Los Angeles Basin before the arrival of Europeans:
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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On this day in 1935, the Griffith Observatory officially opened. Explore photos in our archive:
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L.A. Public Library
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The message is simple:
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L.A. Public Library
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We read at dawn.
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L.A. Public Library
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Never in doubt. #Dodgers
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Sometimes you've got to step away to get a shot.⁠
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L.A. Public Library
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Give it up for the Book Cart Prancers. 💃 💯 🙌 #pride #prideparade
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L.A. Public Library
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@Shaya_in_LA @shutupElizmoe Thanks for the heads up. We do not currently have home testing kits available at the library but this information will be passed along.
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L.A. Public Library
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Are you interested in hiking? Introducing Expedition LA! 🎒 The hiking bundle is available at Central Library, Baldwin Hills, and Chatsworth branch libraries for a three week checkout, no renewals. Call your local branch for availability.
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No red envelope but we've still got DVDs.
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Great game. Thanks for joining in the fun!
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SF Public Library
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Good game @LAPublicLibrary ! Good luck at the @SuperBowl . 🥲
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L.A. Public Library
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Yes or no?
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On the second day of #LibraryCardSignUp Month, Keanu was born. Join the club and get your card:
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L.A. Public Library
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Christmas greetings from Los Angeles Public Library. The 1929 card below was a small nugget in a concerted booster campaign that portrayed California as the ideal place to live in order to get away from the snowy east coast weather.
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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Happy Birthday LA! Explore 237 years of LA history through our online archive:
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Legend "I'm really here because of others. I've been blessed, fortunate to be there to tell you about what others have done." Photo dated: January 6, 1982.
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Los Angeles Public Library at the 1992 #RoseParade .
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Rare in game post.
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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Your library is now providing online access to newspapers from the Southern California News Group, including the Los Angeles Daily News, Daily Bulletin, and Pasadena Star-News + more! Access all these local papers at no cost with the #BestCardInLA :
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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Usually only happens on days that end in "y".
@natlibscot
National Library of Scotland
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Those days when you just want to tweet a picture of Keanu with a Library card.
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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If anyone is still on here, we wanted to let you know the library will be closed Thursday, November 23 & Friday, November 24 in observance of Thanksgiving.
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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Got to be prepared. #ShakeOut #Earthquake
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L.A. Public Library
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This is actually what we’ve come to expect.
@Support
Support
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Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We're aware and working to get this fixed.
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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Always a pleasure @SFPublicLibrary Ready @cincylibrary ?
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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The #BestCardInLA just got even better. You can now use your library card to enjoy many of L.A.’s top museums and attractions for FREE!
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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Going back to Atlanta!
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L.A. Public Library
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You know it's rough when you look to the Titanic soundtrack for solace. Thanks for a great season Dodgers.
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L.A. Public Library
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Don’t stress too much about the due date of your books, the library has been fine free since 2020.
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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Always felt like this was going to 5. #Dodgers
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@LAPublicLibrary
L.A. Public Library
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We need to acknowledge Ms. Bridget "Biddy" Mason on what would have been her 200th birthday. Biddy Mason was brought to Los Angeles as a slave in 1851; she died free and one of the city’s wealthiest women: via @CurbedLA
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