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Press Releases (pdf)
11-10-11 - Exhibit, “As the City Grew: Historical Maps of Los Angeles”
11-4-11 - “LAPL to go ” App Upgrade Lets Silver Lake Branch Patrons Use Smartphones To Check Out Library Materials
10-21-11 - Conference to Create a Blueprint for a National Digital Public Library to Convene at Los Angeles Public Library November 15 – 17, 2011
10-5-11 - Los Angeles Public Library Creates Public Librarian Residency Fellowship
9-08-11 - Exhibit, "A Nation Emerges: The Mexican Revolution Revealed "
7-14-11 - Mayor & City Councilmembers join City Librarian at Press Conference Monday, July 18, at Central Library, to Announce all 73 libraries are Re-Opening on Mondays - thanks to Voter Approved Measure L
6-29-11 - L.A. City and County Libraries Partner to Offer Free Music Downloads
6-22-11 - Library to Launch Self-Checkout App for Smartphones at Silver Lake Branch
6-16-11 - Author Walter Mosley Receives Los Angeles Public Library's 2011 Literary Award
4-11-11 - Free, New Garden Tour offered by LAPL Docents starting April 16
4-4-11 - Los Angeles Public Library to Host Free Book Discussion & Signing by Maya Soetoro-Ng, Author of the New Children’s Picture Book “Ladder to the Moon”, April 19th.
03-31-11 - “Joy Luck Club” Selected for Nationwide Big Read Program to be Subject of Los Angeles Public Library Reading Clubs
03-30-11 - LAPL Co-Sponsors LéaLA, City's First Spanish-language Book Fair, April 29-May1 LAPL Co-Patrocinará LéaLA, La Primera Feria del Libro en Español, April 29-May1
03-22-11 - Robertson Branch Service Hours Change
03-09-11 - MEASURE L PASSES: Thank You L.A. Voters!
02-16-11 - Board of Library Commissioners Meeting at Robertson Branch 2/24/11
11-02-10 - Teens Invited to Free Screening of Short Films
10-13-10 - More than 200 Teens Expected at Student Smart Kick Off
10-13-10 - Free Programs offered at Branch Libraries during Nationwide Teen Read Week
10-13-10 -
Silver Lake Branch Awarded Platinum LEED Certificate
10-01-10 - Paula Madison Appointed to Board of Library Commissioners
09-24-10 - Learn the Language of Money at Los Angeles Public Library Aprenda el Lenguaje del Dinero en La Biblioteca Pública de Los Angeles 洛杉磯市立圖書館總馆及部份分館將於十月七日起免費舉辦英文、西
班牙文、中文與韓文的理財知識教育講座 .
09-09-10 - Nominate a Librarian for the 2010 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times “I Love My Librarian Award”
08-26-10 - “Forty Years of Sesame Street Illustration” exhibit at Central Library
08-24-10 - Ray Bradbury will attend a special Central Library screening of "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" as part of a week celebrating the author.
06-25-10 - Change to Library service hours beginning July 18
05-27-10 - Carlos Singer Appointed to Board of Library Commissioners
04-30-10 - Author Stephen King to Receive Los Angeles Public Library
2010 Literary Award
02-25-10 - Digital Bookmobile pit stop at Library features lots of Cyber 'Candy'
02-17-10 - Kenneth Brecher Appointed President of Library Foundation of Los Angeles
01-19-10 - Los Angeles Public Library Awarded $5.5 Million Federal
Recovery Act Grant for New Computers and Technology
Archived Press Releases
Library in the News
"At Your Library" Episodes Library Cuts Hurt Students Tenuous State of L.A.’s Public Libraries City of Airheads: Dismantling L.A.’s Vaunted Library System Funding the Wrong Programs
WWE Stars at Los Angeles Public Library LA Daily News: Classic still sings to today's readers LAPL Plays Supporting Role in Blockbuster Film “Inception" L.A. Times' Sandy Banks on Library Cuts Public Libraries: We Lose Them at Our Peril Comedian Jay Leno's Crack about LAPL budget troubles generates Letter of Protest Central Library a Top 7 Valentine's Day destinations in SoCal City Librarian Invited to Guadalajara International Book Fair LAPL Represented at World's 2nd Largest Int'l Book Fair Largest International Book Fair in Western Hemisphere Invites LAPL (en Guadalajara's International Book Fair Kicks Off (en Español) CBS News "Good Times At The Library" CBS News "The Economy and Libraries" NBC Nightly News "Increase in Library Usage" LA Times "More People Checking Out Library to Save Money" CNN "Hard Economic Times a Boon for Libraries"
Silver Lake Branch Library Nov. 16 Grand Opening Video Clip
At Your Library--Great Teen Escape, Show 3 , LA City Channel 35
At Your Library--Community Center, Show 1 , LA City Channel 35
KWHY-TV Channel 22 "Con Chile y Limon" show visits Teen'Scape
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