As we spend the year commemorating the centennial of Central Library, it's also necessary to acknowledge a less celebratory, but still important milestone—the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Central Library Fire. The blaze, which ignited shortly before 11 a.m. on April 29, took over seven hours to extinguish and claimed roughly 400,000 books due to fire, smoke, or water damage. The tragic event...
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Librarians Billie Connor, Helene Mochedlover, and Katie Leidich sit across the street from Central Library during the Fire. Leo Jarzomb/Los Angeles Herald Examiner Collection
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Interview With an Author: Alix E. Harrow
A former academic and adjunct, Alix E. Harrow is a Hugo-award winning writer living in Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids.
Shades of L.A.: The Filipino American Experience
Photo Friends, Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Thirty years ago the Los Angeles Public Library embarked on a ground-breaking, collection-building project—reaching out to the diverse communities of the region for family photographs that would provide depth and nuance to an understanding of this region’s multi-cultural history.
Read It First! Movie Adaptations in Theaters This Month
It feels good to be back! After 19 months, films are once again back in theaters! It’s time for this blog to return to its original purpose, to let you know about new film adaptations as they hit the big (and small) screen.
Interview With an Author: Simon R. Green
Simon R. Green is the New York Times best-selling author of more than sixty science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels.
Interview With Alicia Maher
Hilda Guerrero, Librarian, Science, Technology, & Patents Department , Wednesday, September 29, 2021
El Salvador, affectionately called el pulgarcito de America (the little thumb of America) due to its status as the smallest country in Central America, doesn’t usually receive the recognition it deserves, especially not in the culinary sphere.
Interview With Zine Maker - Suemi Guerra
Suemi Guerra is an educator and zinemaker. She is also the author of the fictional zine, Suicidal Goldfish. She is currently working on the fiction zine Las Fakes.
Interview With an Author: Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter is a songwriter and novelist from Moscow, Idaho.
Read it First - Banned Books on the Big Screen
Every year during the last week of September, the American Library Association and libraries everywhere celebrate Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week promotes freedom of expression, freedom of access to information, and the freedom to read.
Interview With an Author: Cadwell Turnbull
Cadwell Turnbull is a graduate from the North Carolina State University’s Creative Writing M.F.A. in Fiction and English M.A. in Linguistics. Turnbull is also a graduate of Clarion West 2016.
