Friday is National Arbor Day: a day to celebrate trees. When we look around Los Angeles today with its beautiful tree-filled parks and palm-lined streets, it's hard to imagine it being any different. But when Los Angeles was first settled, it was a landscape mostly devoid of trees, with only chaparral and scrub as far as the eye could see. The four species of trees that made up the landscape...
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Historia de aprendizaje y superación: Maggie Severiano
Alicia Chavarin, Adult Literacy Coordinator, Benjamin Franklin Branch Library, Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Maggie Severiano ha participado en el programa de alfabetización para adultos en la Biblioteca Benjamín Franklin desde el 2014.
A Week to Remember: Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov was born on April 22, 1899. Praised for his wit and wordplay, Nabokov is best known for the novels he wrote in the 1950s and 1960s.
Uncovering Meaning in Poems
Every April is National Poetry Month - I've always enjoyed this time of year because April gives me a chance to reflect on poetry that is personally meaningful to me.
Music Memories: Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison was born on April 23, 1936. Orbison was a singer/songwriter, most popular in the early 1960s, who specialized in grandly melodramatic ballads of romantic suffering and torment.
Pet Lovers on Parade: What Blessing of the Animals Looked Like in Vintage Los Angeles
When it comes to cats versus dogs, or birds, rabbits, and horses, what makes your pet special? Is it all your love and nurturing? Its abject cuteness and sass? What if you could receive a blessing for your pet—more special still?
Interview With an Author: Scotto Moore
Scotto Moore is a Seattle playwright whose works include several speculative fiction themed plays.
Fight Back Against Fraud With the Library
Have you heard of the “Health Jolting Chair”? What use would you have for a “Lung Expander” or an “Ozone Generator”? Would you trust an “Electric Girdle for Men”?
A Week to Remember: Happy Birthday, Jeffrey Archer!
Jeffrey Archer was born on April 15, 1940. Archer is a British novelist and former politician whose own life has been colorful and eventful enough to be the stuff of fiction.
Portrait of an Artist: LAPL x Gajin Fujita
Gajin Fujita takes us into his studio to discuss the role the public library played in inspiring his art as well as the meaning behind Guardian Angel which is featured on our new Los Angeles Public Library art library card. As Gajin says,
Music Memories: The 2019 National Recording Registry additions
In 2000, Congress created the National Recording Preservation Board, an agency of the Library of Congress, to select titles each year for a National Recording Registry.