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Have you ever thought of making a poem from book spines? by Library Programming Assistant and resident Children’s Book Fanatic and Expert Carol Raby Here are two examples using books … Read more

Fueled by my interest in the television series Boardwalk Empire, I have discovered the golden rolling 1920s and the fantastic comedian Eddie Cantor. The show features historical events with many … Read more

This series was made from posts written from April 2014 to December 2014 and combined at a later date. Crossing the Bar Tiny book found by Archives & Special Collections … Read more

Editor’s note: with the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend, we thought it’d be a great time to shed a little light upon one way that our Archives … Read more

The final installation of the library’s Black History month reflections features work from two students enrolled in Stella Setka’s Rhetorical Arts class. The students conducted research to identify sources related … Read more

Last Fall, the Hannon Library published three digital collections to commemorate the centennial of the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct on November 5, 2013. The Library received generous funding … Read more

This series was made from posts written from January 2014 to April 2014 and combined at a later date.. Dick and Jane and Vampires Dick and Jane and Vampires. Found … Read more

Recently I watched two film adaptations of Joan of Arc: La passion de Jeanne d’Arc, a 1928 French silent motion picture with a captivating performance by Renée Jeanne Falconetti, and … Read more

Water is intimately tied to the growth of Los Angeles and no more so than during the first quarter of the twentieth century when Los Angeles assumed control of water … Read more

As American Archives Month comes to an end, the Department of Archives and Special Collections is pleased to announce the posting of four new finding aids to the Online Archive … Read more

Hey LMU Parents and Babysitters! Are you ready for Halloween? The library’s Curriculum Materials Collection (CMC) has lots of Halloween themed books for young ghosts and ghouls, in every reading … Read more