Rad to the Max
The LA Public Library offered custom-made and library-branded skateboards as best prizes for top...
City Librarian John Szabo, Club Member, named Librarian of the Year.
Library Journal named John F. Szabo, City Librarian of Los Angeles and Director of Los Angeles Public Library, as its 2025 Librarian of the Year...
Read All About It: It’s the Holidays!
A selection of books and movies reflecting some of the Library’s suggestions for the winter holidays.
Read All About It: It’s Thanksgiving!
As the holidays envelop us, Alive! continues publishing recommendations from our favorite Library – Los Angeles Public Library – for your seasonal reading pleasure and to remember the point of the holiday, gratitude...
Read All About It: It’s Halloween!
Alive! reached out to Librarians at the Los Angeles Public Library, for their recommendations for awesomely scary Halloween reads and watches...
LAPL hosts Parables Convening: An Octavia Butler Celebration
The Los Angeles Public Library celebrated the award-winning science fiction author, Octavia E. Butler, at the Parables Convening: An Octavia E. Butler Celebration...
Library presents end-of-year reading challenge.
The LA Public Library is hosting an end-of-year Reading Challenge for readers of all ages. Track your accomplishments, and you could win a prize from the Library Store!..
Read All About It: It’s Halloween!
Alive! reached out to Librarians at our favorite library, Los Angeles Public Library, for their recommendations for awesomely scare Halloween reads and watches. We decided to ask again, and here are fresh...
Alive! Papers delivered to the Octavia Lab Makerspace
Alive! editor John Burnes (right) stopped by the Central Library’s Octavia Lab makerspace to say hello and thanks for a great August cover...
Central Library’s Octavia Lab makerspace expands the limits of learning.
The Octavia Lab, named after the award-winning science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, is a do-it-yourself makerspace located inside the Los Angeles Public Library’s historic Central Library.
