Wilshire Branch Library

Address:: 149 N. Saint Andrews Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone:: 323-957-4550
Fax:: 323-957-4555
Email:: Contact form
Librarian:: Eric Kennedy, Acting Senior Librarian

The Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society designated the Wilshire Branch as a Historic Landmark - 1999 Historic Landmark Award #66. The collection highlights Korean and Spanish Films and contains a good selection of other foreign language films. Refer to the branch history section for more information concerning the library’s unique history.

Upcoming Events at Wilshire Branch Library

Cover of "They Called Us Enemy" by George Takei

August 25, 2020 6:30 PM

Cookies & Comics Book Club

Do you love graphic novels? Does your family get tired of having to talk about Watchmen AGAIN? Looking for someone to geek out with you...

What We Are Reading

The Ghosts of Sherwood

Vaughn, Carrie

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A Star is Bored

Lane, Byron

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The year 1000 : when explorers connected the world -- and globalization began

Hansen, Valerie, 1958-

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Pretty as a picture : a novel

Little, Elizabeth, 1981-

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Read me, Los Angeles

Orphan, Katie

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The chiffon trenches : a memoir

Talley, André Leon

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When we were magic

Gailey, Sarah

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The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

Tokuda-Hall, Maggie

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Conventionally Yours

Albert, Annabeth

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Under the Rainbow

Laskey, Celia

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What We Are Reading

The Ghosts of Sherwood

A Star is Bored

The year 1000 : when explorers connected the world -- and globalization began

Pretty as a picture : a novel

Read me, Los Angeles

The chiffon trenches : a memoir

When we were magic

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

Conventionally Yours

Under the Rainbow

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