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10 book covers with a bow around them
Multilingual Collections, Librarian, December 13, 2025

Description: El mejor regalo que puedes ofrecer durante las festividades de invierno es un libro. Si necesitas ideas sobre qué libros regalar (o regalarte a ti mismo), aquí te presentamos los títulos preferidos por nuestros lectores y bibliotecarios en el 2025.

Y si tu resolución para fin de año es leer más, te recomendamos que agregues estos libros a tu lista de lecturas pendientes....

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Kosher Murphy's with green clover

Where Did People Go to Find Irish Bacon and Cabbage in Los Angeles?

Tina Lernø, Librarian, Digital Content Team, Friday, March 16, 2018

Los Angeles isn't the usual place you think of for wearing of the green, (we're still brown from the drought), but nevertheless, St. Patrick's Day is Saturday, March 17.


Pi Day. Pie with digits reading 3.14159265 on it

Celebrate Pi Day With These Mathematical Reads

Neale Stokes, Senior Librarian, Digital Content Team, Wednesday, March 14, 2018

It’s not the loneliest number, but it might be the most famous. Pi (or π) is commonly defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.


3 comic book covers featuring women

Strong Female Protagonist: Women in Comics

Tina Lernø, Librarian, Digital Content Team, Friday, March 9, 2018

The comic book world has long been the domain of men. Both in readers and writers. That is slowly changing, and it’s good news!


Young girl squatting a heavy barbell at a competition

World’s Strongest Teenager: Interview With the Director of "Supergirl"

Neale Stokes, Senior Librarian, Digital Content Team, Saturday, March 3, 2018

At first glance, Naomi Kutin looks like a typical American teenager—until you see her squat a barbell over twice her body weight.


Women taking a photograph

The Eye and the Image: Women Photographers of Los Angeles

Photo Friends, Friday, March 2, 2018

As March is Women’s History Month, it is only appropriate to celebrate some of the women who helped document Los Angeles – big events and small moments – for all to see.


Devil in a Blue Dress movie poster (1995)

African American Mystery Writers and Their African American Detectives

Janice Batzdorff, Librarian, Monday, February 26, 2018

They work in Watts, Chicago, Oakland, and Harlem, go on vacation in Provincetown, MA, and return home to Otis, South Carolina (pop. 5,000). They include an Ivy League professor, an ex-CIA agent, a volatile ex-cop, a journalist, a domestic worker, an attorney, a Ph.D.


portion of the front page of the liberator magazine

The Liberator: Librarians Work to Preserve Early 20th-Century L.A. African American Newspaper

Neale Stokes, Senior Librarian, Digital Content Team, Friday, February 23, 2018

The Liberator is an early 20th-century Los Angeles African American newspaper, whose owner and editor, Jefferson Lewis Edmonds, was formerly enslaved and spent twenty years in bondage before Emancipation.


Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building

The Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company

Kelly Wallace, Librarian, History Department, Thursday, February 22, 2018

In 1920s Los Angeles, insurance companies considered black Americans to be either uninsurable or extremely high risk. As a result, black people were routinely denied coverage or charged exorbitant premiums.


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A City Engaged: Los Angeles in the Civil Rights Era

Christina Rice, Senior Librarian, Photo Collection, Sunday, February 18, 2018

Los Angeles has always been a city of rich cultural diversity, often serving as a beacon of prosperity for migrants and immigrants around the globe.


 The Cheltenham Alphabet Spout, designed by Jud Fine, which graces LUCID, the middle of three ponds in Spine.

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Part III: Cheltenham Comes to Central Library

Central Docents, Central Library, Saturday, February 17, 2018

After nearly a century, the Los Angeles Central Library still reflects architect Bertram G. Goodhue's vision that buildings should be “literate,” using symbolic expressions to make them distinctive and eternal.


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