The Torrance Public Library serves the City of Torrance, CA with six libraries, home delivery service, programs and outreach. Check us out at www.Library.TorranceCA.gov
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- Location:
- Torrance, CA, 90503
- Phone:
- 310-618-5959
- Mon - Thurs:
- 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
- Fri:
- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- Sat:
- 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
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Walteria Library Refurbishment ProjectUpdated last Tuesday
Henderson Library RefurbishmentUpdated about 2 weeks ago
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Events
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- Landscapes of Power
Katy Geissert Civic Center Library ...
Wednesday, September 23 at 7:00pm - Route 66 Lost and Found
Katy Geissert Civic Center Library
Wednesday, August 12 at 7:00pm - Ignite Creativity Through Art
Katy Geissert Civic Center Library
Wednesday, July 29 at 7:00pm - El Retiro Library Open House
El Retiro Library
Thursday, July 23 at 3:00pm - Henderson Library Refurbishmen...
Henderson Library
Wednesday, July 8 at 7:00pm - History of Torrance's Branch L...
Katy Geissert Civic Center Library
Wednesday, July 1 at 6:45pm - Are We Running Dry?
Katy Geissert Civic Center Library
Saturday, June 27 at 2:00am - Finals Study Nights
Henderson Library
Monday, June 15 at 8:00pm - Chillin' With Books
Henderson Library
Thursday, June 11 at 5:30pm - Culinary History of the South Bay
Katy Geissert Civic Center Library
Wednesday, June 10 at 7:00pm
Torrance Public Library
Sometimes an author can envision what later becomes true. Take a look at this story from the New York Times, and then at a teen novel in the library ... Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/nyregi
Source: www.nytimes.com
The parents of Francisco Hernandez Jr., who has Asperger’s syndrome, wonder how he went unnoticed for so long despite police searches.
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Pop-up books are perennially popular, though they tend to not last long in the library. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketco
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The man behind the modern pop-up book, Waldo "Wally" Hunt, has died. Hunt, a Los Angeles advertising executive, sold his company and traveled to New York, where he became disenchanted. He was charmed by a pop-up book imported from Czechoslovakia....
Torrance Public Library
In preparation for Thanksgiving, allow the New Yorker to work up your hunger with some cookbooks. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/bo
Source: www.newyorker.com
Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925
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With the changing world of books, comes a changing world of authorship. Interesting new services allow online writers to become published authors. http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwrit
Source: www.nytimes.com
Writing a book wil
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The story of how a disrespected writer becomes a source for quality filmmaking. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/new
Source: www.latimes.com
So many people are killed -- so graphically -- in some of his books that it's almost unimaginable. In his latest novel, it's after the end of the world, and besides wandering and waiting, almost nothing happens. ...
Torrance Public Library There's some WOW at the Torrance Art Museum! http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_13827971
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Torrance Art Museum
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One of the hazards that can befall you as you play this game is dropping a book in the bathtub. Something book lovers may do once in a while. http://www.bookpatrol.net/2009/11/bookch
Source: www.bookpatrol.net
Remember your Trivial Pursuit days? Waiting patiently for your chance to answer a question from the Arts & Literature category. Or those times when you made up your own rules and just read the questions from that category.Enter Bookchase. ...
Torrance Public Library
That lovely "old book" smell people speak so fondly of? Acidic decay! An interesting new technique to "sniff" old books and determine which are in most need of preservation. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2
Source: www.eurekalert.org
Scientists are reporting development of a new test that can measure the degradation of old books and precious historical documents from their smell. The nondestructive "sniff" test could help ...
Torrance Public Library
The cover of a book has to draw the eye, and entice a potential reader to pick it up. Take a look at this interesting look at how the same science fiction novel inspired lots of different covers. http://io9.com/5406979/the-unexpected-ar
Source: io9.com
A single book can inspire a wide range of covers, and sometimes those covers can be works of art themselves. We look at some classic science fiction novels and the various covers they've worn throughout the years.
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Children's Librarians know the name Effie Lee Morris, for all her great accomplishments in connecting children and libraries. http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/m
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Are you a "usage obsessive?" Then here is a book for you! http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/
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Language may change, but pedantry is forever. And as Jan Freeman demonstrates in "Ambrose Bierce's 'Write It Right': The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for ...
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A new winner of the National Book Award. http://shelf-life.ew.com/2009/11/18/colu
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Let the Great World Spin, Irish-born writer Colum McCann’s well-received novel about 1970s New York City, won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night. Other winners announced at the 60th annual ceremony in New York City included T.J. ...
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Can you carry your personal library in your pocket? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/techno
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Some readers prefer the convenience of small-screen smartphones to e-readers.
Torrance Public Library Refurbishment of the Walteria Library, November 2009 - February, 2010
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It is the Centennial of the Free Public Library in California. Celebrate 100 years of access to great libraries! http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2
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