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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.
In 1987, the De Neve Branch and several other branch libraries in Los Angeles were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic group submission. [4] The application noted that the branch libraries had been constructed in a variety of period revival styles to house the initial branch library system of the City of Los ...
In 2015, the Los Angeles Public Library won the National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation's highest honor for a library or museum. Awarded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the medal was presented by First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House ceremony. John Szabo, City Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library
The Bureau of Nooks and Crannies is part of a residency program the library established in partnership with the nonprofit Library Foundation of Los Angeles. Participants receive a $20,000 honorarium.
In 1987, the Richard Henry Dana Branch and several other branch libraries in Los Angeles were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic group submission. [2] The application noted that the branch libraries had been constructed in a variety of period revival styles to house the initial branch library system of the ...
John Szabo – City Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library and National Medal for Museum and Library Service recipient; Henry Richard Tedder – librarian of the Athenaeum Club, London; Florence Davy Thompson – founding librarian at the University of Manitoba; Ella May Thornton - Georgia State Librarian; Louis Timothee – first American ...
The Los Angeles Public Library and LAX collaboration borrows from a program the library launched in 2023, Read Freely, that provides a library card and immediate access to books that have been ...
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.