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Your local library offers a cornucopia of free resources all year — including musical instruments and legal aid — but during the summer there’s an extra incentive to visit (in addition to the air ...

Today, millions of Angelenos use the Central Library downtown (which turns 100 this year) and over 70 branch locations to access the Los Angeles Public Library’s collection of over 8 million books.

Before the internet made book reviews widely accessible, where would curious minds go to find information about a new novel's subject matter or a plot? If you lived in the Los Angeles area, you could ...