LAPL’s Digital Collection: Autographs

 

Today’s entry from the autograph collection features the signature of Henry Mills Alden.  Alden (1836-1919) was an Author and the editor of Harper's Magazine. Find the full image here: https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/autograph/id/52/rec/1

Recipe Zine-Making with LA Zine Fest

 Saturday, October 3 at 2:30 p.m.

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.

This event is part of our Recipes, Zines, & Memory-Keeping series.  Plan to arrive early for the preceding Jams, Jelly, & Maramlades program and don’t forget to check out the collections & resources table.

The Arroyo Book Club October Pick….

 

October is a fiction month for the Arroyo Book Club, so we will be reading The Women by Kristin Hannah for our discussion. It is the story of one woman who joins the Army Nurse Corps to follow her brother to Vietnam. To quote from the catalog description:

 “The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm's way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.”

 Stop by the branch for a copy of the book.

 We will come together to discuss the book on Saturday, October 24 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
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

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

Jams, Jelly, & Marmalades with Brie Wakeland Muszynski

 Saturday, October 3 at 1:00 p.m.

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.

LAPL’s Digital Collection: Menus

 

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

Walk 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

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)

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

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.

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.

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

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

 

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.

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.

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

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’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)? 

How to Solve the Climate Crisis

 -in 60 minutes-

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.

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

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: Movie Posters

 

The movie featured in today’s poster is The Mark of Zorro. This was a 1920 movie and in the poster Don Diego Vega/Señor Zorro (Douglas Fairbanks) is shown leaning on a large barrel, upon which there is a portrait of Fairbanks. The text on the poster says “Douglas Fairbanks in 'The Mark of Zorro'; Directed by Fred Niblo from the "All Story Weekly" novel "The Curse of Capistrano" by Johnston McCulley.”

Find the full poster here: https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/movie/id/6/rec/1

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.

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

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