Susan Orlean, the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief (kind-of inspiration for the movie "Adaptation") and Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, as...
Saunders is a kind of literary guide, taking us on a tour of the human condition. In his previous stories, he has outlined for us the cage built from capitalism and longing from which none of us is free. But in his latest collection, there is hope that these bars might have the capacity to bend.
I write here about my experience not as an administrator since I am not one of those, or even as a librarian although I am one of those. I offer this opinion only as an impenitent bin rat that has collected songs going back to the original days of vinyl.
Since the library doesn't have any rules against children running wild, that would be okay, right? No. It wouldn't.
Librarians have been focused on creating practices to help kids and teens understand that information online is content that must be evaluated, and that the power to create meaningful content themselves is, literally, at their fingertips.
When you're a teenaged book lover summer reading is the best reading! The freest reading! It's staying up all night under the covers with a flashlight because you don't have class in the morning reading!
I will state right up front that I am a librarian. I am also a big fan of Bill Maher. But as far as I'm concerned he really stuck his foot in it on Oct. 14 when he said, "We have the Internet. We don't need a library at all."
Libraries are located at a unique intersection of spatial design. They are spaces that store, articulate and distribute formats (media), which are vessels of information.
Story comes courtesy of the City Maven. By Alice M. Walton Privacy screens on public computers are the city of Los Angeles’ answer to patrons...
The voters in Los Angeles overwhelmingly approved Tuesday a charter amendment that will secure Los Angeles Public Library's funding for years to come....
Due to drastically reduced library hours and staff, which were caused by severe, City Hall-approved budget cuts, Markson says her outreach work to loc...
Los Angeles-based artist Yunhee Min will lead a tour and discussion of the exhibition Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977.
