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Summer With the Library

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Take the Summer With the Library Survey to help us plan for 2026!

Thank you for participating in this year's Summer With the Library! Help us to improve our Summer With the Library program by filling out this survey. When you fill out the survey, you are entered into a drawing for one of 3 $50 Library Store gift cards.

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Summer with the Library is supported in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library. This program is also made possible with support from the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and Flora L. Thornton Endowment for Literacy, Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund, Maxwell H. and Muriel S. Gluck Endowment, Moley Family Foundation, Susan Frances Moley, Walter and Holly Thomson Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee, Mattel Children’s Foundation, The Albert Parvin Foundation, and The Council of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles

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Why support the Library?

The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States.

Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities.

With more people than ever before using the library—a record 17 million last year alone—your support helps the Library provide people with the resources they need to succeed and thrive.

How to support the Library

You can support the Los Angeles Public Library in several ways:

Join a “Friends” group. There is a “Friends of the Library” group for most branch libraries and departments of the Central Library. Friends groups raise money for improvements to their library through memberships, used book sales and other activities. For more information click here or talk to your local librarian.

Join the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. The Library Foundation is a non-profit organization that raises funds for Library enhancement programs such as adult and early literacy, children and teen reading clubs, technology, and cultural programs. Foundation members receive a variety of benefits with their membership. For more information, see http://www.lfla.org.

Make a donation by check to the Los Angeles Public Library and send it to:
Support the Library, 630 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles CA 90071 or call (213) 228-7272.

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