![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She shouts out several library services that I recognize from our own library (and, honestly, some new ideas I hadn’t considered!) including the jobs of different departments, storytimes, teen workshops, collection development, and more.īut as stated before, these narratives all orbit around the story of the library fire. In the present, she paints LAPL (and other libraries across the United States) as a champion of social work, where people can find innumerous resources in a variety of different fields. In LA specifically, she walks through the founding of the library, its original rules and regulations, and some of its turbulent decisions regarding directors and personnel. Regarding library history, she focuses on LA but also has plenty to say about libraries in general: from how Andrew Carnegie’s charity helped supplement building projects in the late 1800s and early 1900s, to the gains and losses libraries have experienced throughout the world. This is the crux of Susan Orlean’s narrative The Library Book - a recounting of that day and its aftermath, the history of the library in LA up to that point, and what their current (pre-COVID) library system looks like. In 1986, the Los Angeles Public Library experienced something that hurts my soul: their central library branch burned for seven hours, and more than 1 million books in the collection there were damaged or destroyed. Reviewed by Kamryn Kronschnabel, Patron Services Librarian ![]()
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