LA County Library is one of the largest public

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s in the United States which serves residents living in 49 of the 88 incorporated cities of

Los Angeles County Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States and in the U.S. state of California, with 9,861,224 residents estimated as of 2022. It is the ...

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. United States, and those living in

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s resulting in a service area extending over . LA County Library serves the surrounding regions to the city of Los Angeles, not be confused with the

Los Angeles Public Library The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) is a public library system in Los Angeles, California. The system holds more than six million volumes, and with around 19 million residents in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, it serves the large ...

(LAPL) which serves areas within the city of Los Angeles.

History and politics

On February 25, 1911, California enacted the County Free Library Law, by which all county governments were authorized to establish a "county free library" to serve all areas of the county where cities and towns had not already established free public libraries. This led to the establishment of the Los Angeles County Free Library, later to become the Los Angeles County Public Library system of branches. Circa 1914, the collection was kept on the “10th floor of the Hall of Records, North Broadway and Franklin Streets.” The

, headquartered in

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, is overseen by the Library Commission of 20 appointed members who report on administration, operation, and service to the

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who operate County Library as a special fund department.

Skye Patrick Skye-Ephifanie Patrick is an American librarian, named Library Journal's Librarian of the Year in 2019. She has been Library Director of the Los Angeles County library system since February 2016 and was its first African American director. She ...

was appointed County Librarian on February 1, 2016. LA County Library was a finalist for the IMLS National Medal in 2018 and 2019. LA County Library won the 2018 Marketer of the Year Award, the 2019 Librarian of the Year Award for Skye Patrick, and the 2019 Library of the Year Award. All three awards were from ''Library Journal'' and this was the first time a single organization held all three awards at the same time.

Services and resources

The library provides many resources, including literacy services and programs for families and children.Murray, Stuart A. P. “The Library: An Illustrated History.” New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012, p. 263. The library system offers consumer health information under CHIPS (Consumer Health Information Program and Services).

Branches

*Acton Agua Dulce Library *Agoura Hills Library *Antelope Valley BookMobile *Castaic Library *City Terrace Library *Claremont Library *Clifton M. Brakensiek Library *Compton Library *Cudahy Library *Culver City Julian Dixon Library *Diamond Bar Library *Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library *Duarte Library *East Los Angeles Library *East Rancho Dominguez Library *El Camino Real Library *El Monte Library *Florence Library *Gardena Mayme Dear Library *George Nye Jr. Library *Graham Library *Hacienda Heights Library *Hawaiian Gardens Library *Hawthorne Library *Hermosa Beach Library *Hollydale Library *Huntington Park Library *Angelo M. Iacoboni Library *La Cañada Flintridge Library *La Crescenta Library *La Mirada Library *La Puente Library *La Verne Library *Lake Los Angeles Library *Lancaster Library *Lawndale Library *Leland R. Weaver Library *Lennox Library *Littlerock Library *Live Oak Library *Lloyd Taber-Marina del Rey Library *Lomita Library *Los Nietos Library *Lynwood Library *Malibu Library *Manhattan Beach Library *Masao W. Satow Library *Maywood César Chávez Library *Montebello Library *Norwalk Library *Norwood Library *Paramount Library *Pico Rivera Library *Quartz Hill Library *Rivera Library *Rosemead Library *Rowland Heights Library *San Dimas Library *San Fernando Library *San Gabriel Library *Santa Clarita Valley Bookmobile *Sorensen Library *South El Monte Library *South Whittier Library *Stevenson Ranch Library *Sunkist Library *Temple City Library *Topanga Library *Urban Outreach Bookmobile *View Park BeBe Moore Campbell Library *Walnut Library *West Covina Library *

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*Westlake Village Library *Willowbrook Library *Wiseburn Library *Woodcrest Library

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County of Los Angeles Library system
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History and politics

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