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Rebecca Constantino founded Access Books in 1999 while doing graduate research on the roles of school and community libraries in Los Angeles. [3] Working with a school in Brentwood, she discovered a plan to throw away hundreds of books to make way for new ones. She salvaged the rejected books and donated them to a public school in Compton. The ...
Patrick has served as Library Director of LA County Library since February 2016 and is its first African American Director.. As of 2023, the Library Director oversees Los Angeles County's 85 libraries, 1 institutional library, 4 Cultural Resource Centers, and a mobile fleet of MākMō maker mobiles and Bookmobiles which serve 3.5 million people with an annual operating budget of over $200 million.
This book, published in 2011 by the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA, aimed to broaden the academic discourse on Latino art and promote additional research in this area. Rodriguez is also the co-editor of Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater (2019), an anthology of plays from the 2014 Encuentro festival produced by ...
As the National Book Awards came to a close on Wednesday, finalists for the prestigious literary prizes took the stage in New York to speak about the Israel-Hamas war. Others spoke out against ...
In 2015 the GLBTRT assumed oversight of the event, renamed GBLT Book Month. [16] [17] Efforts to increase the visibility of queer library materials include promoting the Rainbow Book and the Over the Rainbow Books lists, marketing on social media, and providing tools to library workers. In 2020 the month-long observance became Rainbow Book Month.
Little & Lion is a Junior Library Guild book. [11] BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, [3] and Tablet named it one of the best young adult novels of 2017. [11] Booklist also included it on their 2017 Editors' Choice: Books for Youth list. [12] In 2018, the American Library Association included it on their Best Fiction for Young Adults list and Rainbow ...
There are different ways to manage anxiety while pregnant with a rainbow baby. Dr. Jessica Zucker, a Los Angeles-based psychologist specializing in women's reproductive and maternal mental health ...
The Rainbow Bar and Grill is a bar and restaurant on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States, adjacent to the border of Beverly Hills, California. Its address is 9015 Sunset Boulevard .