All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Saturday, February 11, 2017
2:00pm
The Library screens a series of romantic shorts and clips as it resumes a special new, intergenerational movie series welcoming individuals with...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
They were unlikely heroes at a time – amid the nation’s Great Depression and added regional scourges of the Dust Bowl – when hope and inspiration was...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
6:30pm
Not far from where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in 2014 is the headquarters of Emerson Electric, a Fortune 5...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
6:30pm
What led the New York Stock Exchange to suspend trading without warning one day in July 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollabl...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 29, 2017
1:30pm
This event, in the lower-level Truman Forum Auditorium, will be held despite the temporary closure of the Plaza Branch t...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 14, 2017
2:00pm
The all-female Ovarian Psycos bicycle brigade has been riding through Eastside Los Angeles since 2011, cruising barrios and boulevards where women wer...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 12, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Hanging in the balance as the nation elected a new president was a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created the previous February, when Justice Antonin Scal...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Sunday, January 8, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists read from comedian Michael Ian Black’s Naked!, the hilarious book about a boy who r...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 15, 2016
6:30pm
The morning of December 7, 1941, remains burned in Dorinda Nicholson’s memory. Japanese bombers swooped so low over her home near the tip of Hawaii’s...