This post is the eleventh in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home. Chapter 5 Post-Fire Memories: Rio Vista, Spring Street, etc. - part 1 by Bob Anderson - Librarian, Literature &…
This post is the tenth in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home. Chapter 4 Save the Books! - part 2 by Sheryn Morris - Librarian, Literature & Fiction Department Strageties and…
This post is the ninth in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home. Chapter 4 Save the Books! - part 1 by Sheryn Morris - Librarian, Literature & Fiction Department In retrospect, it…
This post is the eigth in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home. Chapter 3 The Legacy of the Central Library Fire - by Christina Rice, Senior Librarian, Photo Collection On the…
This post is the seventh in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home. Chapter 2 From Belle to Burden and Back Again - part 3 by James Sherman, Librarian, Literature & Fiction…
This post is the sixth in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home. Chapter 2 From Belle to Burden and Back Again - part 2 by James Sherman, Librarian, Literature & Fiction Department…
This post is the fifth in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home. Chapter 2 From Belle to Burden and Back Again - part 1 by James Sherman, Librarian, Literature & Fiction Department…
This post is the fourth in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home. Chapter 1 "A Wanderer and Homeless Waif": Los Angeles’ Central Library - part 4 by Glenna Dunning, Former…
This post is the third in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home. Chapter 1 "A Wanderer and Homeless Waif": Los Angeles’ Central Library - part 3 by Glenna Dunning, Former Librarian…
This post is the second in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home. Chapter 1 "A Wanderer and Homeless Waif": Los Angeles’ Central Library - part 2 by Glenna Dunning, Former…
This post is the first in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home: Reflections on Central Library: Photographs From the Collection of Los Angeles Public Library (2018). Feels Like…
While it's true that information on the 2.8 million items in the Central Library is on computer servers that take up a tiny space compared to the hundreds of drawers of catalog cards once used, one…
I have always loved books. When I was five, I pleaded with my mother for books...Little Golden Books, about lambs and engines and whatever...and she helped me learn to read them. In junior high and…
“Habit is persistence in practice.”—Octavia E. ButlerOctavia E. Butler (1947-2006) is a writer, creator, world-builder and genius who made room in the white male-dominated science fiction world for…
