Monday, August 24, 2026

The Arroyo Book Club September Pick….

 


The Arroyo Book Club will be reading An Immense World by Ed Yong for our September discussion. To quote from the catalog description:

 The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension -- the world as it is truly perceived by other animals…

Stop by the branch for a copy of the book.

We will come together to discuss the book on Saturday, September 26 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, August 23, 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 & Recharge: Sensory Play

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

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

Saturday
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Monthly Trivia Question (Answer)….

 

This month our question was who was Charlotte de Berry. She was a pirate. To quote our source:

“De Berry’s legendary exploits include killing a British navy captain, taking charge of his ship, and converting the crew to piracy.” However, to further quote our source: “Charlotte de Berry may have actually lived, or she may be a totally fictional character created by Edward Lloyd in History of the Pirates, published in 1836. Lloyd’s history is the first written source to mention de Berry and did not appear until two hundred years after her birth; it appears odd that so much time would pass with no reference to her. Furthermore, the book contains many anachronisms and appears to have drawn stories from other fictions. Lloyd’s book is the source for information about de Berry in later books.”

Real or not we found out about her from Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives.  This ebook can be found on the library’s Research page search for it by title and access it with your library card.


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Monday, August 17, 2026

2026 Time Capsule (Inclusion)

 

central 100 logo against blue background


The library is looking to include the thoughts of library users in the time capsule it plans to bury this year.  You are invited to use special Central 100 stationary to tell us how you use the library, or what you have been able to learn or accomplish with the help of library collections, spaces, services, or programs and librarians/staff. Please feel free to include any pertinent biographical information about yourself and write in the language of your choice.

From the responses received the library will select 100 contributions to form a collective portrait of the Los Angeles Public Library in 2026. The selected submissions will be placed inside the new centennial time capsule, which will be reinstalled in the cornerstone of Central Library and set to be opened in 2126.

The deadline for submission is September 5th. Please stop by the branch to pick up the special stationary, compose your entry, and then return it for consideration.


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Sunday, August 16, 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 Chill Out Sunday Movie

Monday
4:00 DIY Fidget Sticks

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

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

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

Saturday
10:30 Pokémon Club
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
3:00 Arroyo Book Club (in person OR Zoom / ayosco@lapl.org)

Catch up with us on various sites...


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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

LAPL’s Digital Collection: Travel Posters

 

man and a woman on bicycles with sea behind them

This travel poster is advertising Bermuda.  In it a couple takes a nighttime bicycle ride along a shore in Bermuda. The poster is undated and the poster’s artist is Adolph Treidler. Find the full poster here: https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/travel/id/152/rec/1


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Monday, August 10, 2026

Chill Out Sunday Movie!

 

popcorn bucket, reel of video, and director's clapboard

Escape the heat with a cool film! 

Sunday, August 16 at 2 p.m.

We will be enjoying Fantastic Mr. Fox. An animated version of the Roald Dahl book directed by Wes Anderson.

Everyone is welcome!

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Sunday, August 9, 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 events for our complete program selection….

Sunday
1:00-5:00 Tech Help

Tuesday
10:00-3:30 Tech Help
3:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
6:00 Community Archives Mixer & Craft Night

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

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

Saturday
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

Sunday
2:00 Chill Out Sunday Movie

Catch up with us on various sites...


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Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Monthly Trivia Question…

 This month our question is who was Charlotte de Berry?

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Monday, August 3, 2026

Just One Damned Thing After Another

 


Madeline (aka Max) Maxwell is a historian with a cool new job that lets her witness history first hand instead of researching it second hand --- her employer has time travel.  After surviving a harrowing training regime she begins her work only to discover that there is a secret cabal of time travelers seeking to profit from history.  She and her comrades in arms at St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research must do some serious plotting to come out on top and preserve their organization.

If time traveling hijinks sound good to you then you’ll want to pick up Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor.  Be warned, this is the start of a series.


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Sunday, August 2, 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 Messy Art

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

Wednesday
10:30 Baby & Toddler Storytime
3:00 STAR Reader: Miss Katherine
3:00 Breakdance With Eric Nishimoto

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

Saturday
10:30 Billy Bonkers Magic
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

LAPL’s Digital Collection: Fashion Plates

 


This is a 1789 fashion plate from an unknown magazine. It shows a woman in floor length blue dress with a yellow bodice, wearing a large bonnet with floating red ribbons. She also wears a long yellow shawl with red diamond patterns on the end.

Find image here: https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/fashion/id/8/rec/1

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Monday, July 27, 2026

Centennial Book Club Pick…

image of book cover features old style telephone

 
For our August meeting the Arroyo Book Club temporarily becomes the Centennial Book Club as we celebrate our own Central Library’s 100th anniversary by reading and discussing a book published in 1926. The book we will be reading is The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. 
To quote from the book’s description:
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose. 
However, the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death. Luckily one of Roger's friends and the newest resident to retire to this normally quiet village takes over—none other than Monsieur Hercule Poirot . . . 
Not only beloved by generations of readers, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was one of Agatha Christie's own favorite works—a brilliant whodunit that firmly established the author's reputation as the Queen of Mystery.

We have copies of the book for you to keep (while supplies last). If you prefer an e-book, you will find it on Hoopla.

We will come together to discuss the book on Saturday, August 22 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.

Those with a whimsical turn of mind are welcome to join us attired in what a 1926 book club attendee would be wearing.

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Sunday, July 26, 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 Brick Building Challenge

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

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

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

Saturday
11:00 STAR Reader: Jeffrey
3:00 Drum Fun!

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