Events

How To Fold A Taco: Cómo doblar un taco Storywalk® at the Verdugo Hills Pool!

Join us every Monday this summer at Linnie Canal Park, also known as the Duck Playground, located on the Venice Canals, for a series titled Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan. Come to read, discuss, and enjoy the art!

Join us in the joy of reading books with our STAR volunteer, Mrs. Judi!

Visit the Sun Valley Branch to read to Grant, our lovely friend. Practice your reading, cuddling, combing, or just enjoying the dog's presence.

Join the Loyola Village Book Club in the Community Room to discuss The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi. New members are welcome.

Let’s read Guts by Raina Telegemeier! ¡Leamos Agallas por Raina Telgemeier!

Our Manga Book Club aims to unite manga and anime lovers! We will be reading Komi Can't Communicate during our meeting!

Each month, we cover a different series and focus on the first volume. This club is for teens by teens! Would you like to suggest a series to read?

In celebration of Central 100, join us for a discussion with Stephen Gee! He will be discussing his book Los Angeles Central Library: A History of its Art and Architecture. 

Join us as we welcome Mirelle Ortega, local author/illustrator of River of Mariposas, Los Angeles Central Library POPS: Celebrating a Century of The Light of Learning and Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land, for which she received a 2023 Pura Belpré Award Illustration Honor and an International Latino Book Award bronze medal. Mirelle will be sharing the book I Am, Yo Soy.

Learn about the earliest manga from over 500 years ago with award winning author-illustrator Sunny Seki.

Join the Los Angeles Public Library's Art, Music, and Recreation Department for an online conversation with authors Todd Marinovich and Lizzy Wright, celebrating the recent release of their book, Marinovich: Outside the Lines in Football, Art, and Addiction. Todd Marinovich, formerly a star quarterback at the University of Southern California...

Join us in the Community Room to hear local author Debra Miller discuss her new memoir, The Most Wonderful Terrible Person: A Memoir of Murder in the Golden State.

Join LAPL's Art Department for a celebration of Andy Beta's newly published Cosmic Music, an in-depth biography of the jazz harpist, singer, composer and spiritual leader, Alice Coltrane.