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630 W. 5th StreetLos Angeles, CA 90071
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213-228-7000
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- Kren Malone, Director
Upcoming Events at Central Library
Thursday mornings at 11 a.m.
Activities and play to help babies 0-18 months and their parents/caregivers bond. For more information, please contact children@lapl.org.
Every Thursday at 11 a.m.
Would you like to improve your reading, writing, or conversation skills? Adults can work with a tutor for 15-20 minutes. Walk-in tutoring...
May 16, 2024 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Shing Yin Khor, one of the two 2023/24 LAPL Creators in Residence, will be in the Central Library rotunda creating art in real time!
Thursdays at 12:30 p.m.
Take an hour-long tour through the Los Angeles Central Library. Your docent guide will share stories about the history, art, and...
Thursdays at 12:30 p.m.
Unwind, recharge, and reset with leaders from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Thursdays at 2:30 p.m.
An interactive program of conscious breathing, vocal exercises, improvisation, and music, Neighborhood Sing promotes self-expression...
May 16, 2024 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Learn about email and receive hands-on training on how to create your own FREE email account. Students should be comfortable using a mouse...
Every Friday at 11 a.m.
Would you like to improve your reading, writing, or conversation skills? Adults can work with a tutor for 15-20 minutes. Walk-in tutoring...
Fridays at 12:30 p.m.
Take an hour-long tour through the Los Angeles Central Library. Your docent guide will share stories about the history, art, and...
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 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
May 10, 2024
By Elizabeth Graney, Librarian
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... Continued
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