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BiblioBoard features books, articles, images, photographs, maps, pamphlets, and documents as well as streaming audio and video content on a wide variety of topics. 

An index to biographical dictionaries and directories. Each record provides name, birth and death dates, and the titles of the books in which a biographical sketch of the individual can be found.

Read, watch and listen to books and book videos! This fun Scholastic website reinforces reading skills for early readers, reluctant readers and English language learners for grades preK-3.

Index to adult fiction which takes place in California. Index can be searched by author, title, locale, decade in which the story takes place, and/or major characters.

Detailed film information on over 100,000 films from more than 170 countries from 1900 through 2003.

Contains information on core subjects from Science to Literature to History of student-focused subject material. Includes the content of the Discovering Collection database.

Collection of nearly 100 leading industry journals for information professionals that includes such topics as information infrastructure, data processing techniques, and metadata architectures.

Collection of original illustrations for children's books. 

Readers' advisory resource for adults that is prepared and maintained by Los Angeles Public Library Librarians.

Guide to the many resources LAPL offers for our local author community.

Libby is an innovative in-browser and mobile app from OverDrive designed to make borrowing and enjoying e-books, magazines, streaming services and audiobooks from the library easier than ever. Libby is available on your browser and for  Android and iOS.

Index to 110 large-format photos and architect renderings of the Central Library and branches. Call the Rare Books Department at (213) 228-7350 for an appointment to view the images.

Access to thousands of full-text poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches.

Broad range of subject content containing criticisms, biographies, primary sources, reviews, and multimedia on writers and works around the world.

MakeMake es una plataforma de libros digitales, interactivos y animados que ofrece acceso a una colección de literatura infantil y juvenil única, proveniente de América Latina. En MakeMake encontrarás más de 300 cuentos ilustrados, historietas, novelas, mitos y leyendas para lectores desde los 3 años en adelante.

Up-to-the-minute biographies of leaders and achievers from around the world in the areas of business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government, entertainment and more. Access to all biographies that have appeared in 24 Marquis Who's Who print titles since 1985, and Who Was Who in America volumes from1607-1985.

An online resource for finding great books. Reviews, book discussion guides and annotated book lists are constantly updated. Find books by the same author, or similar books by another author. Browse by subject, genre, and theme for over 150,000 titles. 

An online resource for finding great fiction books for kids, especially pre-K through eighth grade.

Online version of the multivolume Oxford English Dictionary

Quick reference and scholarly articles from a broad range of subjects in over 100 titles that include key titles from the Oxford Companion series and the complete Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

An index to plays which remain unpublished or have only been published in periodicals. Includes references to reviews.

Interested in getting your novel, memoir, poetry collection, children's book and more in eBook and print-ready formats?

A collection of reference eBooks and databases on Business, Careers, History, Literature, Science and Social Science. 

A listing created by the Central Library's Literature & Fiction Dept.