San Diego Public Library staff are feeling a bit groggy this morning. Must be from all that sweeping. 🧹@LAPublicLibrary how are you doing? @Padres@BiblioSzabo
San Diego Public Library staff are feeling a bit groggy this morning. Must be from all that sweeping. 🧹@LAPublicLibrary how are you doing? @Padres@BiblioSzabo
San Diego Public Library staff are feeling a bit groggy this morning. Must be from all that sweeping. 🧹@LAPublicLibrary how are you doing? @Padres@BiblioSzabo
N95 masks are available for the public at all LAPL locations while supplies last.
Visit lapl.org/branches for hours and updates.
Emergency information and resources can be found at lapl.org/be-ready.
ALT White text on blue background reads "N95 masks are available at all Los Angeles Public Library locations".
#1 in the 🌎
For the second year running, Los Angeles Public Library is the number one lending library in the world on Overdrive/Libby with over 14 million items borrowed in 2024.
We couldn't have done it without you 🫶📚🎉
In memory of El Toro 💙⚾️💙
The phenomenon known as Fernando-mania swept through L.A. in 1981, when Valenzuela started 8-0, led the Dodgers to the World Series, and won both the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards. Herald Examiner - Rob Brown
Lindsay Ellis is an author, Hugo finalist & video essayist who creates online content about media, narrative & film theory. She recently agreed to talk to us about her debut novel "Axiom's End." lapl.me/kr5Mgmt
ALT author Lindsay Ellis and the book cover of "Axiom's End"
Kobe's Bookshelf - We looked through old interviews and social media posts to piece together a reading list of books that inspired the Black Mamba: lapl.me/xwiGbam
ICYMI
It’s Parade Day for our Los Angeles Dodgers! 🧢
Central Library is closed today due to extensive street closures and restricted access to allow for the Dodgers Championship Victory Parade. Find LAPL branches open near you on our website: lapl.org/branches
ALT Book titles: The Perfect Season, Sweet Smell of Success, All of You Every Single One, Into the Streets, Forever Blue, The Unbreakables
New 👑
The Linda Lindas on our social accounts:
#1 Video on YouTube with more views than Real Talk with RuPaul.
#1 Instagram post topping Keanu Reeves with a library card.
#1 Twitter impressions passing Amanda Gorman inauguration post.
Answers to a couple of questions we've gotten from New Yorkers.
✅ Yes we have a library system in Los Angeles, it's only 152 years old.
✅ We do read in Los Angeles. LAPL is the number one lending library on Overdrive/Libby in the world
The City of Angels is a city of readers!
On the Overdrive platform, Los Angeles Public Library is the top-circulating library in the United States for the second year in a row.
For the Champions 💙⚾️💙
Central Library is closed on Friday due to extensive street closures and restricted access to allow for the Dodgers Championship Victory Parade.
Before Los Angeles, there was Yangna, home to the Tongva people, Native Americans who numbered at least 5,000 in the Los Angeles Basin before the arrival of Europeans: lapl.org/collections-resourc…#IndigenousPeoplesDay2020
ALT Kirkman-Harriman Pictorial and Historical Map of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles Public Library Map Collection.
For the Champions 💙⚾️💙
Central Library is closed on Monday due to extensive street closures and restricted access to allow for the Dodgers Championship Victory Parade. Unless noted otherwise, all other library branches will be open.
lapl.org/branches
Keanu Reeves' birthday coincides with #LibraryCardSignUp Month. 🤯
Sign up for an e-card and enjoy all the digital offerings available from the library: lapl.me/MS1OrOM
We gave it all we had. #Dodgers
Congrats to the Braves and @cobblibrary. Considering who you're playing in the World Series we might kind of be rooting for you.
Thanks to everyone for following along, it's been a blast!