Monthly Trivia Question…

 This month’s question is what is betel nut?

Telescope Night

 

The ever-popular Telescope Night returns (weather permitting) to the Arroyo Seco Library on Tuesday, November 12.  We will begin at 6:00 and wrap things up shortly before the library closes at 8:00.  We should be able to see the Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn.  Mark your calendar and plan to drop by.  Do note that the event is weather dependent, so if there are clouds on the day give us a call after 3:00 for word on the status of the program.

For those who don’t know what Telescope Night is…  During Telescope Night a group of local astronomers, the Sidewalk Astronomers (http://www.sidewalkastronomers.us/), sets up telescopes outside the library and points them at objects of interest in the night sky.  Everyone is invited to take as many turns as they’d like looking through the telescopes.  The Sidewalk Astronomers are very knowledgeable and will answer your questions & chat about how they made the telescopes.  Bring your questions with you.

Programming Coming up This Week

Note that the library is an election polling place through election day. Stop by and vote!

Find the in person programs at our branch as well as a selection of the exciting, virtual programs offered by branches across the city during the week below (programs in person at our branch unless otherwise noted). Visit our online calendar for our complete program selection….

Monday
11:00 Virtual Toddler Storytime (Register)

Tuesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
5:00 Walk-In Tutor for Adults

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine

Thursday 
9:00-5:00 Q.Me Free Legal Clinic (Register)

Friday
10:00 Yoga & Meditation With Master John (email dmatthews@lapl.org )

Saturday
12:00 Scholarships & Financial Aid: What Parents Need to Know (email teenservices@lapl.org for link)
2:00 STAR Reader: Toni

Catch up with us on various sites...

LAPL platforms:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lapubliclibrary/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lapubliclibrary/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/losangeleslibrary

Arroyo Seco Social Media:
Blog: arroyoseco5.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArroyoSecoLibrary
Instagram: www.instagram.com/arroyosecolapl

LAPL’s Digital Collection: Fashion Plates

 

Today we’ll browse into the Fashion Plate collection and take a look at this illustration from August of 1813. Here we have a morning walking dress.  White ankle length dress with high collar.  The back of the dress is covered with a green mantle with tassels on the corners.  Additional accessories include yellow gloves, light green parasol, and straw bonnet with green ribbon.

Access the image here

Arroyo Book Club November Pick….

 

November is a non-fiction month for the Arroyo Book Club. November is also Native American Heritage Month so this time around we will be reading a striking memoir. Specifically, Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa. The catalog describes the book with, “a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition.”

Stop by the branch to pick up a copy to read, while they last. You will find them in the usual location, just ask if you don’t know where that is.  The book may also be found as an ebook (an option if all the paper books are checked out) in Hoopla. Find it here 

We will meet to discuss the book on Saturday, November 23 at 3 p.m., unusually, it will be before Thanksgiving. It will be a hybrid meeting so you have the option of attending in person or via Zoom. If you’d like to join us via Zoom let us know at ayosco@lapl.org so we can get the link to you.

Programming Coming up This Week

Note that the library is an election polling place through election day. Stop by and vote!

Find the in person programs at our branch as well as a selection of the exciting, virtual programs offered by branches across the city during the week below (programs in person at our branch unless otherwise noted). Visit our online calendar for our complete program selection….

Monday
4:00 Birds on the Move
6:00 Scholarships and Financial Aid: What Parents Need to Know (email ptuck@lapl.org for link)

Tuesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
5:00 Walk-In Tutor for Adults

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine

Thursday 
9:00-5:00 Q.Me Free Legal Clinic (Register)

Friday
10:00 Yoga & Meditation With Master John (email dmatthews@lapl.org )

Saturday
2:00 STAR Reader: Toni

Catch up with us on various sites...

LAPL platforms:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lapubliclibrary/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lapubliclibrary/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/losangeleslibrary

Arroyo Seco Social Media:
Blog: arroyoseco5.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArroyoSecoLibrary
Instagram: www.instagram.com/arroyosecolapl

LAPL’s Digital Collection: Maps

 

Turning our attention to the map collection, take a look at a 1915 United States Forest Service map of the Angeles National Forest.

Find the full map here

AWG

(Arroyo Writing Group)

Are you interested in trying your hand at writing? We welcome you whether you are new to the art or and old expert looking for convivial place to share your work. Join our new group for practice both writing short pieces across many genres and sharing your writing with others.

Who: Anyone of any level of experience. All that’s required is an interest in writing, a willingness to share your work, and an ability to give positive feedback to others.

What: Our new writing group. Each month we will engage with a different writing prompt preparing our own short work in response and bringing it to share at our meeting. Prompts will range freely across genres.

Where: The Arroyo Seco Library / 6145 N. Figueroa St, 90042 / 323-255-0537 / ayosco@lapl.org

When: We will meet on the Third Thursday of each Month at 6 p.m.

Why: The why is down to you. It might be for the practice writing. It might be for the practice sharing what you write with others. It might be for the company of others who are also trying to compose. It might be….

Our first meeting will be November 21 at 6 p.m.  

Our first writing prompt is: Write something that starts from an event you remember from your childhood…

Start writing and make plans to join us.

Programming Coming up This Week

Find the in person programs at our branch as well as a selection of the exciting, virtual programs offered by branches across the city during the week below (programs in person at our branch unless otherwise noted). Visit our online calendar for our complete program selection….

Sunday
3:00 Pop-Up Book Making

Monday
3:00-5:00 LA Saves Informational Table
4:00 Dessert Dumpling Demo (registration required)

Tuesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
5:00 Walk-In Tutor for Adults

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine
6:00 Círculo de Lectores

Friday
10:00 Yoga & Meditation With Master John (email dmatthews@lapl.org )

Saturday
10:30 Creepy Crawly Crafts
2:00 STAR Reader: Toni
3:00 Arroyo Book Club Meeting (In Person OR via Zoom / email ayosco@lapl.org)

Catch up with us on various sites...

LAPL platforms:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lapubliclibrary/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lapubliclibrary/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/losangeleslibrary

Arroyo Seco Social Media:
Blog: arroyoseco5.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArroyoSecoLibrary
Instagram: www.instagram.com/arroyosecolapl

Monthly Trivia Question (Answer)….

 

This month we asked where is Suriname and what is their official language. Suriname is a South American country located north of Brazil.  Its official language is Dutch but Sranan Tongo (literally, “Suriname language”), a Creole language, is the most common choice for informal conversation.

The question, and answer, were found in CultureGrams.  This database provides brief country reports with concise information on the history, people, customs, lifestyle, society, travel information and more for over 175 countries.

Find the CultureGrams  on the library’s Research & Homework page under “C” and access it with your library card.

Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson gives us an in depth look at the near future in a tale focused on dealing with the problem that is climate change in The Ministry for the Future.   This book follows Mary Murphy who is in charge of a UN agency tasked with protecting the unborn future citizens of the world and called the Ministry of the Future.  This is but one thread though it does weave through the entire book.  It is joined by other threads and by single chapter vignettes all of which paint the story of the calamity & tragedy that await us in the coming decades. The story is lightened with the optimism of solution as Mary, in her work, and many of the vignettes, in their tales, speak of solutions.  

All in all a powerful book that is quite hard to read and can at points leave you angry about where we are. It is important however to know where we are and to share the author’s optimism that hard work and radical change might (might) help us past it. Recommended. 

Programming Coming up This Week

Note that the library will be closed on Monday in celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Find the in person programs at our branch as well as a selection of the exciting, virtual programs offered by branches across the city during the remainder of the week below (programs in person at our branch unless otherwise noted). Visit our online calendar for our complete program selection….

Monday
Library Closed in Celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Tuesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
5:00 Walk-In Tutor for Adults

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine

Thursday
1:00 Q.Me Free Legal Clinic (Register)

Friday
10:00 Yoga & Meditation With Master John (email dmatthews@lapl.org )

Saturday
2:00 STAR Reader: Toni

Sunday
3:00 Pop Up Book Making

Catch up with us on various sites...

LAPL platforms:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lapubliclibrary/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lapubliclibrary/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/losangeleslibrary

Arroyo Seco Social Media:
Blog: arroyoseco5.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArroyoSecoLibrary
Instagram: www.instagram.com/arroyosecolapl

LAPL’s Digital Collection: Fruit Crate

 

Here is another fruit crate label from Fillmore, CA – a town this author has a personal link to. This time we see the label from Red Ball. The portrayed landscape is likely up the Sespe River.

Access the label here

Make a Simple Pop-Up Book

Feeling crafty? Want to tell a story? Why not satisfy both cravings. Join us on Sunday, October 20 at 3 PM as we construct small pop-up books.

Program is intended for adults and teens.