Programming Coming up This Week

Note that the library will be closed on Monday for the Presidents’ Day Holiday.

Find the in person programs at our branch during the week below (all programs are in person at our branch unless otherwise noted). Visit our online calendar for our complete program selection….

Sunday
1:00-5:00 Tech Help

Monday
Library closed for Presidents’ Day

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine
4:00-6:00 Walk-In Tutoring

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
4:00 Shrinky Dink Fun

Friday
3:00 DIY Archives: Virtual Info Session (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diy-archives-virtual-info-session-tickets-1981867965435)

Saturday
9:30-12:30 VITA Income Tax Preparation (Free)

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

 

Today we’re looking at a menu for the Beverly Hills restaurant Dolores.  This is a lunch/dinner menu from 1968.  Dolores was located at 8531 Wilshire Blvd. Find the full menu here: https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/menus/id/7/rec/3

Vernal Shrinky-Dinks

 

Feeling crafty? Swing by on February 19 at 4 pm and design your own amulet or magnet out of shrinky-dink plastic and then watch the power of heat transform them.  We have plenty of material for this program so bring all your friends.

Everyone is welcome!

Arroyo has an Archival Scanner (take advantage)

 

Ready to scan those old photos, slides & negatives? You're closer than you think, with resources at the Arroyo Seco Library.  Appointments are available on Tuesdays & Thursdays between 10 and 2 and on Sunday between 12 and 4.  Sign up at lapl.org/sommunity/diy

Programming Coming up This Week

Find the in person programs at our branch during the week below (all programs are in person at our branch unless otherwise noted). Visit our online calendar for our complete program selection….

Sunday
1:00-5:00 Tech Help

Monday
3:00-5:00 DOT TAP Information Table
4:00 Kids’ Program

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
10:00 Basics of Taxes (Library’s YouTube)
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime with ASL
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine
4:00-6:00 Walk-In Tutoring
6:00 Círculo de Lectores

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
10:00 Fundamentos de los Impuestos (Library’s YouTube)

Saturday
9:30-12:30 VITA Income Tax Preparation (Free)
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

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 the question is what do you know about the “Hymn to the Nile”?

Love Talker

Laurie, a history grad student, gets an alarming call about her beloved Great-Aunt Lizzie.  Lizzie has had an encounter with the faeries.  Alarmed she sets off for the family homestead in Maryland where she finds her half-brother who is similarly alarmed.  Together they set out to find just what is going on with Lizzie and wind up ferreting out a sinister plot and old family secrets.

If you enjoy a light mystery with overtones of romance (not too many) then you’ll enjoy this book, The Love Talker by Elizabeth Peters.

Programming Coming up This Week

Find the in person programs at our branch during the week below (all programs are in person at our branch unless otherwise noted). Visit our online calendar for our complete program selection….

Sunday
1:00-5:00 Tech Help
2:00 Game Day: Expanded

Monday
4:00 Kids’ Program

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime with ASL
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine
4:00-6:00 Walk-In Tutoring

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime

Saturday
9:30-12:30 VITA Income Tax Preparation (Free)
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

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: Book Plates

 

Today’s book plate is for Gerald Adrian’s books.  It is a small black and white plate featuring a mask with the letters "FPA" below it. Find the image here

Game Day: Expanded

 

Who: Gamers and Would Be Gamers
What: We have acquired a slew of games. Join us and we’ll select one, figure out the rules, and dive in
When: Sunday, February 1 at 2 PM
Where: Arroyo Seco Library, 6145 N. Figueroa Street.
Why: For fun, to meet people, to challenge yourself…

Questions: Give us a call at 323-255-0537

Arroyo Book Club’s February Pick…

 

The Arroyo Book Club will be reading The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride for our February discussion. As the catalog description puts it:

"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows… When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us."

Stop by the branch to pick up a copy to read. You will find them in the usual location, just ask if you don’t know where that is.  

We will come together to discuss the book on Saturday, February 28 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 send an email to ayosco@lapl.org so we can get the link to you.

Programming Coming up This Week

Find the in person programs at our branch during the week below (all programs are in person at our branch unless otherwise noted). Visit our online calendar for our complete program selection….

Sunday
1:00-5:00 Tech Help

Monday
4:00 Regulate and Recharge

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
6:30 Telescope Night with the Sidewalk Astronomers

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime with ASL
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine
4:00-6:00 Walk-In Tutoring
6:00 Círculo de Lectores

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime

Friday
10:30 Sensory Storytime With USC's Insp!re Lab

Saturday
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

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 for the name of a man instrumental in the wars for independence in South America?  There are many right answers but we were thinking of Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín.  

Bolívar was influential in achieving independence in the Spanish territories that included modern-day Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. José de San Martín played major and minor roles in the liberation of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chile. Both of these men worked simultaneously on different ends of South America, and then met in the middle to liberate Peru together.

The question, and answer, were found in Latino American Experience. The Latino American Experience provides over 200 volumes of content, from encyclopedias to biographies, and primary documents dating from pre-Colonial civilizations, that explore Latino history and contemporary culture in the United States. Includes a timeline, images, maps, and lesson plans.  Find it on the library’s Research & Homework page under “L” and access it with your library card.

Committed

 

In Committed Adam Stern recounts his experience as a Psychiatric Resident.  Stern shares his experiences during his first and second years, his encounters with patients, interacting with his teachers and his fellow residents, his self-doubt, and his growing competence. The book is a fascinating look at the workings of a psychiatric ward and is told entirely in a conversational, no medical experience or knowledge needed to understand what’s going on, manner.

I would recommend this to anyone who likes to “walk in someone else’s shoes” via memoir.