As the Los Angeles Public Library celebrates 150 years, the city’s readers are back in force with fewer pandemic restrictions. Do you want to know what they’re reading? Read on.

Library patrons like myself are familiar with long wait times on popular titles: For example, don't even think about putting in a hold for Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem at the Los Angeles ...

City Librarian John Szabo stood tall behind a table, ... “The Los Angeles Public Library is about stories,” Szabo told a group of 30 people gathered inside the library’s Rare Books Room.

LOS ANGELES - On the morning of August 9, 2023, Santa Monica police officers responded to a call for service at the Ocean Park Branch of the city's public library. A library employee, attempting ...

A key survey of homelessness in Los Angeles determined that the number of people sleeping without shelter fell again. More ...

To help alleviate the city’s $1 billion budget shortfall, the Los Angeles Zoo is raising the price of admission for the first time since 2019 ...

Welcome to the sensory room at Harbor City-Harbor Gateway Branch Library, the first of its kind in the Los Angeles Public Library system. “I don't really want to be the quiet library where you ...

Citing anticipated protests and ongoing safety concerns in the downtown area, the Los Angeles Public Library announced Friday it will temporarily close three of its branches on Saturday. The ...

John F. Szabo, the city librarian of Los Angeles since 2012, says it’s a unique step not only for the LAPL but also for any public library system.

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The Los Angeles Public Library has acquired the “Lydia R. Otero Archive,” consisting of photographs, articles, personal items and more belonging to non-binary Latinx activist and author Lydia ...