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This is a list of public libraries in Los Angeles County, California: County of Los Angeles Public Library - 7.8 million items; Los Angeles Public Library - 6.3 million items; Alhambra Civic Center Library; Altadena Library District; Arcadia Public Library; Azusa City Library; Beverly Hills Public Library; Burbank Public Library; Cerritos ...
The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) is a public library system in the City of Los Angeles, California, operating separate from the Los Angeles County Public Library system. The system holds more than six million volumes, [ 3 ] and with around 19 million residents in the Greater Los Angeles area, it serves the largest metropolitan ...
Richard J. Riordan Central Library, primarily known as the Los Angeles Central Library, is the main branch of the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), in Downtown Los Angeles. It is named after Mayor of Los Angeles Richard Riordan. It consists of two buildings: the Goodhue Building and the Tom Bradley addition, from 1925 and 1993, respectively. [3]
The North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library, formerly Sidney Lanier Branch Library, also referred to as North Hollywood Branch and North Hollywood Library, is a branch library in the Los Angeles Public Library system, located at 5211 N. Tujunga Avenue in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery was founded as Rosedale Cemetery in 1884, when Los Angeles was a small city of around 28,000 people, on 65 acres (260,000 m 2) of land between Washington and Venice boulevards (then 16th Street) between Normandie Avenue and Walton and Catalina Streets.
Cahuenga Branch is the third oldest branch library facility in the Los Angeles Public Library system. Located at 4591 Santa Monica Boulevard in the East Hollywood section of Los Angeles, it was built in 1916 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie.
Lincoln Heights Branch Library is the second oldest branch library in the Los Angeles Public Library system. Located in the Lincoln Heights section of Los Angeles, California , it was built in the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival styles in 1916 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie .
Funding from the City of Los Angeles Community Development Department was used by Martinez-Hirsch Associates to design and lead the renovation and expansion of the damaged building. [8] Although the library officials expected to be at the temporary location for many years, the library was re-opened on July 3, 1991. [7]