Long before Facebook, Instagram, X, and Pinterest existed, people made photo albums and scrapbooks to highlight and document notable events and things they deemed interesting. Scrapbooking was particularly popular because […]
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Hill Avenue Branch Library located at 55 S. Hill Avenue. The library was designed by noted Pasadena firm Marston, Van Pelt and […]
This blog post was written by AnnMarie Kolakowski, Branch Manager of the La Pintoresca Branch Library Today would have been the 76th birthday of author Octavia E. Butler. Last Saturday, […]
Since ancient times rulers and scholars have made efforts to organize and store records for posterity. What might be considered the very first “libraries” were simply temple and palace rooms […]
Contributing writers: AnnMarie Kolakowski and William Gerber February is Black History Month, which celebrates the accomplishments and contributions African Americans have made throughout U.S. history. It also honors and pays […]
When Doris Hoit became the city librarian in 1936, the Pasadena Public Library consisted of the Central Library and four small branches. She envisioned a library system in which no […]
It was sometime in 1889 during a meeting of the Valley Hunt Club that a distinguished professor by the name of Dr. Charles F. Holder shared an idea he had […]
When Jeanette M. Drake came to Pasadena to become its third City Librarian in 1919, the Pasadena Public Library consisted of only the castle-like main library located on the corner […]
With Lincoln’s birthday coming up—an important day for the nation and for the Pasadena Public Library, which dedicated the Central Library on February 12, 1927—our patrons might be interested in […]
The start of the Summer Reading Program is just around the corner! Summer reading has been a longstanding tradition of public libraries, and here at the Pasadena Public Library, this […]