Japanese Taiko Drumming

Join us for an afternoon of Japanese Taiko Drumming on Wednesday, January 22 at 4pm. This is an experience not to be missed.  All ages are welcome!  

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
1:00-5:00 Cybernaut Computer Assistance

Monday
4:00 Children’s Program

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Cybernaut Computer Assistance
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
5:00 Walk-In Tutor for Adults
6:00 Telescope Night with the Sidewalk Astronomers

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine
4:00 Teen Program

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Cybernaut Computer Assistance
6:00 Arroyo Writing Group

Saturday
2:00 STAR Reader: Toni
3:00 Your Student Loan Guide: Find Relief, Reduce Payments, and Plan Your Future

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…

 This month let’s ask a health question. What is a goiter?

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
1:00-5:00 Cybernaut Computer Assistance

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Cybernaut Computer Assistance
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

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Cybernaut Computer Assistance
12:00 Building Your Financial Future (LAPL YouTube)

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

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: Autographs

 

The next entry we’re sharing from our digital collection comes from the Autograph collection. Here we have the signature (& some supplemental documents) of Author and Poet Charles Follen Adams. Signature taken in 1907.  Materials cover period from 1901-1910

Access the full document here

2025 Winter Reading Challenge: Live Laugh Library

 

Have you made a New Year’s Resolution to read more?  Do you already read a lot and need an excuse to read even more? Do you just like the idea, now that we mention it, of planning to read more?  Whatever your reason the 2025 Winter Reading Challenge is here for you!

This year’s Winter Reading Challenge begins on January 2 and runs through February 28

Complete ten hours of reading and be entered into a drawing to win a gift card from The Library Store.

How do you play?

• Register and track your progress online (https://lapl.beanstack.org/) or on the Beanstack Tracker App, or pick up a game board at any Los Angeles Public Library location.
• Read for 15 minutes and then color in a circle.
• When all the circles are colored in, the challenge is complete!

Cute little coloring pencil set sign up prize for even more incentive (while supplies last)

So get the whole family signed up and start reading!

The Arroyo Book Club’s January Pick

 

Our January read will be Fuzz by Mary Roach. To quote the book description: 

Join Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree?

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.  

We will meet to discuss the book on Saturday, January 25 at 3 p.m. 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

Please note the library will close at 5 pm on Tuesday the 31th and remain closed all day Wednesday the 1st. 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….

Sunday
1:00-5:00 Cybernaut Computer Assistance
3:00 Meditative Art

Monday
11:00 Virtual Toddler Storytime (register: https://tinyurl.com/EdendaleStorytime)

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Cybernaut Computer Assistance
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
Library Closes at 5pm

Wednesday
Library Closed for New Year

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Cybernaut Computer Assistance
12:30 Russian for Beginners (email language@lapl.org for link)

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

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: Menus

 

This time let’s turn our attention to the menu collection.  Here’s one for Aashiana from the 1980s. The menu notations were done by Merrill Shindler. The restaurant was located on Wilshire Blvd.

Access the full menu here

Popular Read Alikes

 

If you liked

Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler

(One of the branch's most checked out titles last month)

Than try these

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

 

If you Liked

The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté

(One of the branch's most checked out non-fiction books last month)

Than try these

Ask Me About My Uterus by Abby Norman

Inflamed by Rupa Marya & Raj Patel

Weathering by Arline T. Geronimus

Emotional Labor by Rose Hackman

Programming Coming up This Week

Please note the library will close at 1 pm on Tuesday the 24th and remain closed all day Wednesday the 25th. 

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….

The Señorita Mariposa StoryWalk is available offsite at the Audubon Center for enjoyment throughout the week.

Monday
11:00 Virtual Toddler Storytime (register)

Tuesday
Library Closes at 1pm

Wednesday
Library Closed for Christmas

Thursday 
12:30 Russian for Beginners (email language@lapl.org for link)

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

Saturday
2:00 STAR Reader: Toni
3:00 Arroyo Book Club (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

The Arroyo Writing Group’s January Prompt

The Arroyo Writing Group will meet on January 16th at 6 p.m. We will be sharing our responses to the writing prompt:

You are asked to review a luxury hotel on the beach

The Arroyo Writing Group is for anyone interested in trying their 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 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 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….

Start writing and make plans to join us

Monthly Trivia Question (Answer)….

 

This month we asked can you find an image of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and the Royal Princesses? One such image is seen in part in the included image. Aten, the Solar Disk, blessing the royal family; detail of sunk relief fragment from Tell el-Amarna [Dynasty XVIII]. Date ca. 1350 B.C.E.

The image was found in JSTOR. JSTOR provides access to journal articles, books, images and primary sources. Access includes ARTSTOR, JSTOR's cross disciplinary collection of over 2 million images from around the world, all rights-cleared and discoverable.  It is a resource you can access with your library card from any branch computer.

Citation:

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and the Royal Princesses. limestone, ca. 1350 B.C.E. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.18134402.  Accessed 29 Aug. 2024.

Meditative Art

 

When: December 29 at 3 p.m.

What: Swing by for a relaxing, art filled afternoon. We will be creating zentangles or working on an old-fashioned coloring project. Set your cares aside and join us

Who: Adults primarily but we will have child friendly activities as well.

Where: The Arroyo Seco Library at 6145 N. Figueroa Street in Highland Park

See you there!