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Elizabeth Graney, Librarian, Literature & Fiction Department, October 6, 2025

If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times—the book was better! There's nothing like debating the differences between a favorite book and its translation to the screen. But if you don't know your beloved series is coming out as a movie or that the fun-looking preview you saw was adapted from a book, how can you join the debate? The Library is here to the rescue! Here, we will be...

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Gina Hemphill

Going for the Gold: African Americans and the Games of the XXIII Olympiad

Christina Rice, Senior Librarian, Photo Collection, Monday, February 3, 2020

We have to wait until the summer of 2028 for Los Angeles to host the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad, but when we do, we will join Paris and London as only the third city to host the Summer Games three times, having previously done so in 1932 and famously, in 1984.


Miri Koral Director of the California Institute for Yiddish Culture

Coming to America: Miri Koral's Immigrant Story and the Role of Yiddish in Her Life

Wendy Westgate, Librarian, Exploration & Creativity Department, Friday, January 31, 2020

Miri Koral is the Founding Director of the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language and a native speaker of Yiddish. She will be facilitating the book discussions for the Yiddish Book Center's "Coming to America" Reading Groups for Public Libraries, starting in February.


Chris McCormick and his latest book, The Gimmicks

Interview With an Author: Chris McCormick

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Thursday, January 30, 2020

Chris McCormick is the author of a collection of stories, Desert Boys, winner of the 2017 Stonewall Book Award.


Kobe Bryant reads a book with The Last Bookstore's book tunnel in the background

Kobe's Bookshelf

Keith Kesler, Social Media Librarian, Public Relations Department, Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Kobe Bryant’s post-basketball life was dedicated to inspiring young people through storytelling.


Exterior view of the Lincoln Heights Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library

Helping Everyone to Help Themselves - Andrew Carnegie and Libraries

Photo Friends, Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1835 and immigrated to the United States in 1848. Landing in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Andrew Carnegie started working as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill. He worked twelve hours a day, six days a week.


Women sprinkles cheese on lasagna

Think You Know All About Lasagna?

Bob Timmermann, Senior Librarian, History & Genealogy Department, Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Why am I writing about lasagna? Its origins became a topic for discussion among my brothers and I—and I wanted answers.


Tochi Onyebuchi and his adult fiction debut novel, Riot Baby

Interview With an Author: Tochi Onyebuchi

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Thursday, January 16, 2020

Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel,


Artist and Zine-Maker Esther Pearl Watson

Whatcha Mean, What’s a Zine?

Angi Brzycki, Senior Librarian, Digitization & Special Collections, Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Meet Esther Pearl Watson, a Los Angeles based artist, illustrator, children’s book author and zine maker.


street mural of rapper Nipsey Hussle

Books that Inspired Nipsey Hussle

Keith Kesler, Social Media Librarian, Public Relations Department, Friday, January 10, 2020

Nipsey Hussle was a rapper, entrepreneur, and community activist from Los Angeles. In March of 2019, Hussle was fatally shot outside his store Marathon Clothing.


View of the Rose Bowl entrance flanked by tall palms on either sides

First and 100: A Century of Rose Bowl Football

Tina Lernø, Librarian, Digital Content Team, Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Happy New Year, Happy Rose Bowl, Happy Football! Did you know that the Rose Bowl Stadium is nearing its 100th year? The story of the Rose Parade and the subsequent football games have been going on long before.


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