@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:
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."
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.
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.
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
Keanu Reeves' birthday coincides with
#LibraryCardSignUp
Month. 🤯
Sign up for an e-card and enjoy all the digital offerings available from the library:
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!
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.
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. 🔗
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:
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:
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
:
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.
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