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This blog post series looks at the history of the 1905 firing of Mary L. Jones as Los Angeles City Librarian.
This blog post series looks at the history of the 1905 firing of Mary L. Jones as Los Angeles City Librarian.
This blog post series looks at the history of the 1905 firing of Mary L. Jones as Los Angeles City Librarian.
This blog post series looks at the history of the 1905 firing of Mary L. Jones as Los Angeles City Librarian.
Chances are if you have heard of any of the early women City Librarians of Los Angeles Public Library, you may know about Mary E.
“A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.”—Author Lilian Jackson Braun
This year, 2016, marks the 30th anniversary of the most catastrophic fire of a library building in the U.S. It occurred at our Central Library.
On the morning of April 29, 1986, librarian Dan Dupill was answering telephone calls at the Literature Reference Desk at Central Library. The antiquated phone system was slow, and the volume of calls high in those pre-Internet days, so getting through to a Reference Librarian could be a challenge.
Banned Books Week offers the opportunity to introduce one of the most colorful librarians in city history and her battle with the moralistic mugwumps of fin de siecle Los Angeles.
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