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Los libros en español más esperados están disponibles en tu biblioteca
Multilingual Collections, Librarian, July 2, 2025

Los libros en español más esperados están disponibles en tu biblioteca. Haz clic en cada título para verlo en nuestro catálogo. ¡No esperes y reserva tu copia hoy mismo!


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Harriet Child Wadleigh

Scandal in the Stacks!

Catherine Sturgeon, Children's Librarian, Angeles Mesa Branch Library, Monday, March 19, 2018

Chances are if you have heard of any of the early women City Librarians of Los Angeles Public Library, you may know about Mary E.


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.


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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.


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