- Address:
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630 W. 5th StreetLos Angeles, CA 90071
- Phone:
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213-228-7000
- Email:
- Contact form
- Librarian:
- Kren Malone, Director
Hours of Service
| Mon: | 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
| Tues: | 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
| Weds: | 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
| Thurs: | 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
| Fri: | 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
| Sat: | 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
| Sun: | 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. |
Upcoming Events at Central Library
3rd Saturday of the month at 9:30 a.m.
Sales feature hundreds of used books, magazines, and DVDs and are sponsored by the Central Library support groups: Central Library Docents...
Saturdays at 11 a.m.
Take an hour-long tour through the Los Angeles Central Library. Your docent guide will share stories about the history, art, and...
The 3rd Saturday of Every Month from 11 a.m. - 12 noon
Learn the basics and play songs on the ukulele. Bring your own ukulele or use one of ours. No registration is required.
Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Join this inclusive, in-person poetry workshop where poets of all levels can come together, share their work, and foster a vibrant poetry...
Every Saturday at 11:00 a.m.
Would you like to improve your reading, writing, or conversation skills? Adults can work with a tutor for 20 minutes. Walk-in tutoring is...
May 18, 2024 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
This session will give an overview of Chinese genealogy books (also known as zupu or jiapu): what they are, how they can be used in your...
May 18, 2024 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
11:30 a.m.
May 18, 2024 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Celebrate the diversity of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in Los Angeles at AAPI Joy, a free festival...
Every Saturday from 11:30 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Do you want to practice your English pronunciation and better understand those unusual expressions called idioms? This class is for you!...
3rd Saturday of the month at 12:30 p.m.
Take an hour-long tour through Central Library's gardens. Your docent guide will share stories about the gardens as they were originally...
What We're Reading
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The outsider : the life and work of Lafcadio Hearn : the man who introduced voodoo, Creole cooking,
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The Kamogawa food detectives
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Sharks in the rivers
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Musical tables : poems
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The Final Girl Support Group
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A year of last things : poems
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Camp Damascus
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Leave Me Alone With the Recipes: The Life, Art, and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles
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The Djinn waits a hundred years
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Women of Good Fortune
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Breaking through : my life in science
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Tanya Holland's California Soul: Recipes From a Culinary Journey West
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The Fox Wife
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Walk through fire
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The Book of Doors
Recent Blog Posts from LAPL Blog
May 17, 2024
By Vi Ha, Senior Librarian
Long-time visitors of Chinatown will be very familiar with the storefront with Sing Song, a Tyrus Wong (1910-2016) drawn logo of a bashful little boy in a traditional Chinese haircut with a robe... Continued
May 16, 2024
By Daryl M., Librarian
Douglas Westerbeke is a librarian who lives in Ohio and works at one of the largest libraries in the US. He has spent the last decade on the local panel of the International Dublin Literary Award,... Continued
May 15, 2024
By Maya Peterpaul, Librarian
Vintage city directories contained alphabetized lists of the names of residents and their street addresses (if they existed). Additional information could include their occupation, spouse, property... Continued
May 13, 2024
Dr. Leana Wen (pronounced Lee-nah) is an emergency physician and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is a columnist for The Washington Post, where she writes a twice-weekly... Continued
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