Sunday, September 27, 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
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help
4:00 Regulate and Recharge
6:30 Supporting Struggling Readers at Home (online: bit.ly/laplsupportsreaders)

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help

Saturday
1:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
1:00 Recipes, Zines, & Memory Keeping

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Friday, September 25, 2026

Jams, Jelly, & Marmalades with Brie Wakeland Muszynski

 Saturday, October 3 at 1:00 p.m.

bowl of strawberries & jars of jam

Join Certified Food Preservation Instructor Brie Wakeland Muszynski for a presentation on how to safely make jams, jellies, and marmalades at home. The presentation includes tasting samples, and a jam making zine.

This event is part of our Recipes, Zines, & Memory-Keeping series.  Plan to stay for the Recipe Zine-Making program and don’t forget to check out the collections & resources table.


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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

LAPL’s Digital Collection: Menus

 

menu image

This is the Lunch/Dinner menu for Dixie’s Chicken, a restaurant located in Salem, MA. The menu is circa 1945.  And, interestingly, feels compelled to include the text “positively no dancing” which makes you wonder about the event that necessitated that addition.  View the full menu here: https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/menus/id/15/rec/1

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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Walk Highland Park

collage of photos of Highland Park

We will set out on foot to explore the Highland Park area once again on Thursday, October 15 at 5:30 p.m. We will meet in the library lobby and decide upon a route that may involve, hills, stairs, or both. We will return after dark. People of all ages are invited so make it a family affair. Dogs are welcome to come too but they will need to wait outside for the walk to begin.

Don’t hesitate to give us a call at 323-255-0537 if you have any questions. Email ayosco@lapl.org


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Sunday, September 20, 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
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help
4:00 Pokémon Club

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help
6:00 Círculo de lectores

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime with ASL
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help

Saturday
10:30 Washi Tape and Sticker Art
1:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
3:00 Arroyo Book Club (in person or via Zoom / ayosco@lapl.org)

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Friday, September 18, 2026

Recipes, Zines, & Memory-Keeping

Saturday, October 3
1pm-4pm

Memories are often made around the dinner table, in the kitchen, and at our favorite neighborhood restaurants. How can we preserve those moments that shape us and share them with our love ones? Join us for an afternoon of cooking and zine-making with an eye on storytelling as archival practice.

1:00pm: Jams, Jelly, & Marmalades with Brie Wakeland Muszynski
Join Certified Food Preservation Instructor Brie Wakeland Muszynski for a presentation on how to safely make jams, jellies, and marmalades at home. The presentation includes tasting samples, and a jam making zine.

2:30pm: Recipe Zine-Making with LA Zine Fest
Make a zine with the Los Angeles Zine Fest! Learn the history of zines and how you can create your own eight page mini-zine to record a recipe to share or give as a gift. Participants will have the option to photocopy and exchange zines.

Throughout the afternoon, check out the collections and resources table where we’ll have neighborhood highlights from the LAPL Menu Collection, information about DIY archiving with LAPL, and a free raffle to win a personal archiving starter kit.

Early arrival encouraged for workshops.  Learn more at lapl.org/community.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Monthly Trivia Question (Answer)….

 


This month’s trivia question asked how you could find a poem on the topic of the start of school. While there are many ways one way is to make use of the library’s database “Lit Finder.” Once in the database you’d want to do an advanced search using the search term school and limiting the results to full text poems. One of the results is the (somewhat saccharine) poem “The Father in School” by Amos R. Wells. The poem begins:

Unfamiliar work and rule, --

Little Lad's first day in school.

"Stay!  O papa, stay with me!"

Thus he murmurs tearfully.

And, though business calls away,

Papa stays the livelong day.

Wells, Amos Russel. "The Father in School." The Collected Poems of Amos R. Wells, by Amos R. Wells, Christian Endeavor World, 1921, p. 44. Gale Literature: LitFinder

Find the Lit Finder database on the library’s Research page (https://www.lapl.org/digital-library/search) search for it by title and access it with your library card.


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Sunday, September 13, 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
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help
4:00 Your Author: Heidi Moreno

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help

Saturday
1:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
3:00 How to Solve The Climate Crisis in 60 Minutes

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

LAPL’s Digital Collection: Book Plates

 

black and white plate of an Olympic runner holding a torch above the library's name which is bordered by a decorative trim

This bookplate is for the Akron Public Library. It is dated 1908 and is a black and white plate of an Olympic runner holding a torch above the library's name which is bordered by a decorative trim.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2026

The Haunting of Tram Car 015

 


The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P.  Djèlí Clark is set in an alternate history Cairo.  In this world a researcher managed to open a hole between our universe and one inhabited by mythological beings sometime in the mid-1800s. The resulting migration of some of those beings as well as the technological and scientific discoveries enabled by the whole situation resulted in Egypt coming to prominence in the world. In this particular story we follow two investigators for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities as they investigate a tram car that is haunted getting a close look at this interesting different version of the world along the way.

This is a fascinating exercise in world building that is supported by an interesting plot and likeable characters. I would heartily recommend it.


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Sunday, September 6, 2026

Programming Coming up This Week

Note that the library will be closed on Monday, September 7 for Labor Day.

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 Labor Day

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help
6:00 Círculo de lectores

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help

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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Monthly Trivia Question…

 This month’s trivia question is more about process.  Let’s celebrate the start of a new school year with a poem. How could you find a poem on that topic (i.e. the start of the school year)? 

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Monday, August 31, 2026

How to Solve the Climate Crisis

 -in 60 minutes-

image of lightning storm over a city

Saturday, September 19 at 3 p.m. at the Arroyo Seco Branch Library

Join us for an interactive game, where you get to play a benevolent world overlord and try to solve the climate crisis in just 60 minutes. Nothing like working against the clock on one of the biggest challenges of our lifetime! 

This interactive game will utilize the climate solutions simulator En-ROADS, co-developed by the climate nonprofit Climate Interactive and the MIT Sloan School of Management. This session is open to all, no expertise on climate science or solutions needed. We will not overwhelm you with data, but rather help you build a mental model of what needs to happen for us to ensure a livable future. 

Our goal is to give you hope and inspiration about possible real-world solutions – no doomerism here! 

Email us at ayosco@lapl.org for more information.


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Sunday, August 30, 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
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help
4:00 Cardboard Marble Run

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help
4:00 Shrinky Dink Fun

Thursday 
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00-6:00 Student Zone Homework Help

Saturday
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

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