Sunday, February 8, 2026

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

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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Monthly Trivia Question…

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

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Love Talker

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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.


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Sunday, February 1, 2026

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

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

LAPL’s Digital Collection: Book Plates

 

a small black and white plate featuring a mask with the letters "FPA" below it

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

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Game Day: Expanded

 

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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


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Monday, January 26, 2026

Arroyo Book Club’s February Pick…

 

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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.


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Sunday, January 25, 2026

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

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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Monthly Trivia Question (Answer)….

 

painting showing man addressing a political body all in 18th c. dress

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.


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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

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.


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Sunday, January 18, 2026

Programming Coming up This Week

Note that the Library will be closed on Monday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
3:00 DIY Archives: Info Session

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

Saturday
10:30 Shape Party
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
3:00 Arroyo Book Club (in person OR online / ayosco@lapl.org for link)

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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

LAPL’s Digital Collection: Movie Posters

 

head of a woman surrounded by several others under movie title & star names

Today’s movie poster is for the 1933 movie Hot Pepper. The poster shows depictions of Pepper (Lupe Velez) and Harry Quirt (Edmund Lowe) with Jim Flagg (Victor McLaglen) surrounded by women. Text from the poster notes: Hot Pepper with Edmond Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Lupe Velez, El Brendel; A comedy drama with the characters Quirt and Flagg originally created by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson;Directed by John Blystone; A Fox Picture. 

View the full image here: https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/movie/id/4/rec/8

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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Telescope Night

 

backlit image of a man looking through a telescope

The ever-popular Telescope Night returns (weather permitting) to the Arroyo Seco Library on Tuesday, January 27.  We will begin at 6:30 and wrap things up shortly before the library closes at 8:00.  We should be able to see Saturn, Jupiter and the Moon.  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, 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.


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Sunday, January 11, 2026

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 Pokémon Club

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

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

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

Saturday
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

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