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The County of Los Angeles Public Library or County Library system serves residents living in 51 of the 88 incorporated cities of Los Angeles County and those living in unincorporated areas resulting in a service area extending over 3,000 square miles. The Library system is overseen by the Library Commission of 20 appointed members who report on administration, operation, and service to the County Board of Supervisors who operate County Library as a special fund department. Incorporation is: In business, incorporation is the creation of a corporation. ...
Map of California showing Los Angeles County. ...
In law, a region of land is unincorporated if it is not a part of any municipality. ...
Librarians and patrons in a typical larger urban public library A public library is a library which is accessible by the public and is often operated by civil servants and funded from public sources. ...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County. ...
Library services are provided by 84 Regional and Community Libraries, 4 bookmobiles, and 7 special reference/resource centers. Circulating books, periodicals, computer access and audio visual materials are available to visitors. The system also offers Consumer health information under CHIPS (Consumer Health Information Program and Services), and four ethnic resource centers that provide specialized resource materials focusing on the American Indian, African American, Asian-Pacific American, and Chicano communities. Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...
African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ...
An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...
A Chicano is a person of no descent born in the United States. ...
County Library was established in 1912 under authority of the County Free Library Act. 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ...
Branches
- A C Bilbrew (Los Angeles)
- Agoura Hills
- Alondra (Norwalk)
- Angelo M. Iacoboni (Lakewood)
- Antelope Valley (Lancaster)¹
- Anthony Quinn (Los Angeles)
- Artesia
- Avalon
- Baldwin Park
- Bell
- Bell Gardens
- Canyon Country Jo Anne Darcy
- Carson Regional
- Charter Oak (Covina)
- Chet Holifield (Montebello)
- City Terrace (Los Angeles)
- Claremont
- Clifton M. Brakensiek (Bellflower)
- Compton
- Cudahy
- Culver City Julian Dixon
- Diamond Bar
- Duarte
- East Los Angeles
- East Rancho Dominguez (Compton)
- El Camino Real (Los Angeles)
- El Monte
- Florence (Los Angeles)
- Gardena Mayme Dear
- George Nye, Jr. (Lakewood)
| - Graham (Los Angeles)
- Hacienda Heights
- Hawaiian Gardens
- Hawthorne
- Hermosa Beach
- Hollydale (South Gate)
- Huntington Park
- Juvenile Hall (Los Angeles)
- La Cañada Flintridge
- La Crescenta
- La Mirada
- La Puente
- La Verne
- Lake Los Angeles (Palmdale)
- Lancaster Regional
- Las Virgenes (Lancaster)¹
- Lawndale Library
- Leland R. Weaver (South Gate)
- Lennox
- Littlerock
- Live Oak (Arcadia)
- Lloyd Taber-Marina del Rey
- Lomita
- Los Nietos (Whittier)
- Lynwood
- Malibu
- Manhattan Beach
- Masao W. Satow (Gardena)
- Maywood Cesar Chavez
| - Montebello
- Newhall
- Norwalk
- Norwood (El Monte)
- Paramount
- Pico Rivera
- Quartz Hill
- Rivera (Pico Rivera)
- Rosemead
- Rowland Heights
- San Dimas
- San Fernando
- San Gabriel
- Santa Clarita Valley¹
- Sorensen (Whittier)
- South El Monte
- South Whittier
- Sunkist (La Puente)
- Temple Cityb
- Urban Outreach (West Covina)¹
- Valencia Library
- Victoria Park (Carson]
- View Park (Los Angeles)
- Walnut
- West Covina
- West Hollywood
- Westlake Village
- Willowbrook (Los Angeles)
- Wiseburn (Hawthorne)
- Woodcrest (Los Angeles)
| ¹Denotes Bookmobile
Extrenal links - County of Los Angeles Library system (http://www.colapublib.org/index.html)
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