Central Library will be closed Friday, November 1.

Ani Boyadjian, Principal Librarian, Research and Special Collections


British-American artist Ellen Harvey

A Chat With Artist Ellen Harvey

July 26, 2024

Conceptual British-American artist Ellen Harvey has been commissioned to create an installation for the Los Angeles Public Library/Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ upcoming exhibition, No Prior Art: Illustrations of Invention.


Joyce with Sylvia Beach at 12 rue de l’Odéon - 1922 known by the “Scandal of Ulysses” poster. unknown photographer; source: The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Sylvia Beach, the Dreamer Who Drove the Publication of "Ulysses"

June 14, 2022

June 16 marks Bloomsday, a day of celebration in honor of Irish writer James Joyce’s seminal novel Ulysses (1922).


poster art, resistance

The Resistance Lives!

February 01, 2017

Resist!

Winter Dellenbach, activist, attorney, and proud first organizer of the Los Angeles Resistance, often ends her email correspondence with that simple call. Resist!


Armenian orphans of the Near East Relief orphanage in Alexandropol (now Gyumri, Armenia)

America, We Thank You

March 06, 2015

One hundred years ago, on April 24th, 1915, the Ottoman Turkish government enacted a systematic policy to annihilate its Armenian population. From 1915-1930, over a million and a half souls perished.


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