ACTIVITIES ABOUND FOR NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK.Byline: Lori Moody Daily News Staff Writer Opossums, politicians and local writers will be some of the featured guests at branch libraries during National Library Week, which began Sunday. This year's theme, ``Kids Connect the Library,'' celebrates the way public and school libraries serve children. ``It makes everyone in the country aware we're still here,'' said Diana Lisignoli-Cochran, senior librarian at the Encino-Tarzana Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) system serves the residents of Los Angeles, California. . ``The computer age has not made us obsolete. We have the Internet (and) computers here for word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and .'' Here are the week's activities planned by some local branches: West Valley Regional Branch, 19036 Vanowen St., (818) 345-4393. Spring-related stories will be read to children ages 5 and older and their parents at 4 p.m. today. The program also will include crafts. Pacoima Branch, 13605 Van Nuys Blvd., (818) 899-5203. Muralist Edward Garcia at 6:30 p.m. today will discuss the characters in ``Saturday Morning,'' the mural mural Painting applied to and made integral with the surface of a wall or ceiling. Its roots can be found in the universal desire that led prehistoric peoples to create cave paintings—the desire to decorate their surroundings and express their ideas and beliefs. of a Pacoima street scene he painted in the library in 1975. Platt Branch Library, 23600 Victory Blvd., Woodland Hills, (818) 340-9386. Sid Fleischman, author of ``The Whipping WHIPPING, punishment. The infliction of stripes. 2. This mode of punishment, which is still practiced in some of the states, is a relict of barbarism; it has yielded in most of the middle and northern states to the penitentiary system. Boy'' and other children's books, will appear at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. North Hollywood Branch, 5211 Tujunga Ave., (818) 766-7185. Stories will be read to toddlers at 11 a.m. and to preschoolers at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday. Northridge Branch, 9051 Darby Ave., (818) 886-3640. Magician Allen Oshiro is scheduled to perform at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Studio City Branch, 4400 Babcock Ave., 769-5212. City Councilman Michael Feuer Michael Feuer (1958-)[1] is a Californian politician and lawyer. He now represents the 42nd Assembly District which includes Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and part of Los Angeles in the California State Assembly. He was elected in 2006 on the Democratic ticket. is scheduled to read children's stories at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Sylmar Branch, 13059 Glenoaks Blvd., (818) 367-6102, City Councilman Richard Alarcon will read children's stories at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Van Nuys Branch, 6250 Sylmar Ave., (818) 756-8453. Actress/storyteller Judith Helton will portray Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of ``Little House on the Prairie prairie Level or rolling grassland, especially that found in central North America. Decreasing amounts of rainfall, from 40 in. (100 cm) at the forested eastern edge to less than 12 in. ,'' at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Pacoima Branch, 13605 Van Nuys Blvd., (818) 899-5203. Mary Helen Ponce, author of the 1993 book ``Hoyt Street: Growing Up in Pacoima,'' will talk about her book at 11 a.m. Saturday. Encino-Tarzana Branch, 18231 Ventura Blvd., (818) 343-1983. Wildlife on Wheels will bring animals to help tell the Mexican legend of ``Opossum opossum (əpŏs`əm, pŏs`–), name for several marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Didelphidae, native to Central and South America, with one species extending N to the United States. and the Great Firemaker,'' at 1 p.m. Saturday. |
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