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The Los Angeles Library Association was formed in late 1872, and by early 1873, a well-stocked reading room had opened in the Downey Block at Temple and Main streets under the first librarian, John Littlefield. [7] [8] Los Angeles Public Library is a library with 6 million works located in Los Angeles, United States of America.
Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library. / 34.02778°N 118.19722°W / 34.02778; -118.19722. Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library is a branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library located in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California. It was built in 1927 based on a Spanish Colonial Revival design by architect George L. Lindsay.
Richard J. Riordan Central Library, also known as the Los Angeles Central Library, is the main branch of the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), in Downtown Los Angeles. It is named after Mayor of Los Angeles Richard Riordan . It consists of two buildings: the Goodhue Building and the Tom Bradley addition, from 1925 and 1993, respectively. [3]
Cahuenga Branch is the third oldest branch library facility in the Los Angeles Public Library system. Located at 4591 Santa Monica Boulevard in the East Hollywood section of Los Angeles, it was built in 1916 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie. One of three surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles, it has been designated as a Historic-Cultural ...
County of Los Angeles Public Library - 7.8 million items. Los Angeles Public Library - 6.3 million items. Alhambra Civic Center Library. Altadena Library District. Arcadia Public Library. Azusa City Library. Beverly Hills Public Library. Burbank Public Library. Cerritos Millennium Library.
The Friends of the Beverly Hills Public Library, founded in 1959, raised funds to enhance the library's services. In 1962, a bond issue for a new building failed by 464 votes. A second bond issue to fund the construction of the library, however, passed in 1963. The library opened in August 1965. The facade of the library served as Mike Brady's ...
Designated LAHCM. 1971-04-07 [2] Memorial Branch is a branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library. It was built in 1930 based on a Gothic Revival design by architect John C. Austin, also noted as the lead architect of the Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood Masonic Temple. The library includes a large heraldic work of stained glass ...
Mary Emily Foy (July 13, 1862 – February 21, 1962) was the first woman head librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, appointed to the job in 1880 at the age of 18. She had graduated the year before from Los Angeles High School. [1] She served for only four years but left a legacy for Los Angeles librarians to remember.
The original or "Old" Van Nuys Branch library was built in 1926 based on a Spanish Colonial Revival style design by architects Allen & Allen. [2] In 37 years of operation, the circulation grew from 27,000 to more than 350,000 volumes annually. [2] The old branch was closed in 1964, and replaced with a new branch in the Van Nuys Civic Center on ...
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