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Happy Earth Day! Celebrate our planet with a good book, a movie, or just some time outdoors. Got a green thumb or wanting to find out? Check out these ebooks and audiobooks: https://lacountylibrary.overdrive.com/

You love your Library! You make #LibraryGivingDay and every day a success. Because you’re a Library Champion, Thank you! Your generous and continuing support for LA County Library makes a lasting impact. You help the Library provide opportunities for children, teens, and adults to learn, explore, and create a stronger community.... Your donation makes a difference. Thank you, Library Champion! https://www.lacolibraryfoundation.org/contribute

Welcome back! 30 County library locations opened today, with more to come. Plus, you can still use Sidewalk Service (pictured below, Community Library Manager Sue Yamamoto and a happy Library Champion at Rosemead Library).

Love to read? Ready to Explore? Your Library has you covered...sign up today for Spring & Summer Discovery Program! Each month, read or explore a Library challenge. You’ll be entered to win a prize. For ALL ages, from babies and toddlers to centenarians. Sign up today at https://lacountylibrary.beanstack.com/reader365

Love Your Library? Today is #LibraryGivingDay! This national online celebration gives Library lovers like you an opportunity to support YOUR LA County Library. With your gift, you’re helping the Library serve up books, programs, and services like laptop and hotspot loans, homework help, and early literacy that people need and love. Your Library is here for you and your community. You’re building a positive future when you give for your Library. ... Make your gift today and help spread the word. Thank you! https://www.lacolibraryfoundation.org/contribute

Happy #NationalLibraryWorkersDay! A shout-out to your amazing LA County Library workers - at 86 library locations, navigating a mobile fleet, and working behind the scenes to make it all work for you. Show them your love - make a virtual visit to your library today. Read, learn, explore! #NationalLibraryWeek

So excited for all you Library Champions...your LA County Library is reopening!

César Chávez Day celebrating the work and legacy of the founder, with Dolores Huerta, of the United Farm Workers union. He organized, and called on people nationwide to support, safe working conditions and a living wage for the millions of farmworkers who get food to the nation’s tables. Nearly six decades later, his work is unfinished.

Beloved children’s book author. Former librarian. Cat lover. That’s Beverly Cleary. Let’s celebrate her legacy, stories that have and will continue to delight generations of young readers. Ms. Cleary said she wrote about ordinary children and their lives, imperfect and humorous, like Henry Huggins, and Beezus and Ramona Quimby, and later, about an adventurous mouse with a motorcycle. Her goal? To write books that made children want to read. She succeeded! Image/Wikimedia commons: the author and her cat, Kitty, ca.1955.

Looking for a local adventure this weekend? Head to Judy Baca's incredible community creation "The Great Wall of Los Angeles" (SF Valley - Coldwater Canyon Avenue between Oxnard Street & Burbank Boulevard). The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (a generous funder of LA County Library Foundation) explores Ms. Baca's inspiration as part of its hard driving The Monument Project.

Together, we will triumph. With tremendous sadness, we again decry the racism and racial violence that persists today, and that terrifies, threatens, and even kills our family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and community members. LA County Library Foundation stands in solidarity with Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans. ... We will work with and support you to achieve racial equity and social justice. Together, we will forge the community we want and need, one marked by understanding, equity, and inclusion for every person.

Food is often the way we get to know, understand, and celebrate other cultures. It's also delicious! Learn about traditional Korean Cooking - join chef and culinary historian Hae Jung Cho tomorrow at 11am. FREE, sign up at https://bit.ly/3rzBOWG Don't forget your cultural gem Asian Pacific Resource Center, L A County Library Check out their booklist for learning about, and acting for, racial equity and social justice https://lacountylibrary.org/booklist-details/478/

Want a glimpse into our nation’s diverse cultural heritage? Check out this amazing booklist of Asian Pacific American Authors! You’ll find something to match just about every reader’s taste and age. In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re pointing to a few titles by women authors: from Growing up Filipino by Cecilia Manquerra Brainard to The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka, to When heaven and earth changed places: a Vietnamese woman’s journey from war to pea...ce by Le Ly Hayslip. Plus, there’s Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee, Yobo: Korean American Writing in Hawai’i by Nora Okja Keller, and Southland by Nina Revoyr. And the list goes on see for yourself! https://lacountylibrary.org/booklist-details/183/

Happy #PiDay! Bake a pie - sample a cookbook from your Libraryyou can download Perfect pies: the best sweet and savory recipes from America’s pie-baking champion or place a hold and pick up Easy as Pie (for kids) with Sidewalk Service at your local library. Celebrate the magic of math with a movie, free to stream from your Library on Hoopla - Hidden Figures or check out The last equation of Isaac Severy: a novel in clues or learn about the amazing Maryam Mirzaskhan...i, the only woman to win mathematics’ most prestigious honor, the Fields Medal. She helped the world see math in a new way. Whatever you do, have a great day! And in case you’re wonderingPi (Greek letter ) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter approximately 3.14159. Looking for a fun fact for the day? @neildegrassetyson wants you to know that you only have to take Pi to 32 decimal places for all 10 Arabic numerals to appear at least once: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950 https://lacountylibrary.org/

Want a weekend adventure? Check out this great suggestion from the Library's American Indian Resource Center!

Be a Champion...vote! Your Library makes voting easy with information, voting centers, and ballot drop boxes. Get the scoop at https://lacountylibrary.org/vote/

Seen on the street! The streets of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Library Champion Judy Du F. reports that Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards just dubbed San Miguel the World’s Best Small City. Get the issue for free with your LA County Library Card at https://bit.ly/3kvMEcQ. Or search the catalog for a book or music about Frida Kahlo, the artist who inspired street muralist @persak_art

Wondering if your vote counts? Consider this...women in California got the vote nine years before the 19th Amendment passed. And they got it by about ONE vote per precinct! YOUR vote can create the future you want for yourself and your community. You can cast your ballot in a Vote by Mail Drop Box at several library locations. Learn more at plan.lavote.net.

How cool is this?! Celebrate your right to vote with a special edition LA County Library Card get yours today. And get ready to vote in this important November election. Your Library has the info you need.

Curious about Catalina Island? Tune in tomorrow for a reading and discussion about the Tongva creation story about that special place.

Got a Tween or Teen at Home...looking for something to do? Look no further than your Library! MAKE at HOME: Lemon Battery this Friday, October 9 at 4 pm. Practice your maker skills and create a STEAM project at home with a few household items. Materials are listed on the registration page at https://bit.ly/2HSHqte Sponsored by Edison International and YOU, Library Champions thank you!

Thank you, Library Champions! Like your Library, you are audacious, creative, unstoppable. Thank you for your generous support! https://www.lacolibraryfoundation.org/contribute

Audacious. Creative. Unstoppable. That's YOUR LA County Library. Here for You, with what you need. Your donation today will make a difference - Thank you! https://www.lacolibraryfoundation.org/contribute

Celebrate a champion of justice and gender equality, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg - RBG - who passed away yesterday. Continue her legacy with your actions every day. Learn more about RGB and why she's inspired so many - your Library has ebooks, audiobooks, and physical books. https://catalog.lacountylibrary.org

Happy Citizenship Day! Your Library is there for you - with a Citizenship in a Bag kit and citizenship book recommendations for children, teens and adults.

Thank you to all you Library Champions for liking this page! You're making a difference.

What’s your Library Story? Check out the Library Foundation enews. https://www.lacolibraryfoundation.org/newsletter

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