William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

06/19/2020

You may have noticed that our Facebook presence has not been updated in a while… The Clark Library is currently active on Instagram () and Twitter (), and though we won’t delete our pages, we will not be actively maintaining them for the foreseeable future. We hope to talk with you on another social media platform soon!

02/20/2020

We hope you will be able to join us for this year's installment of our ongoing series on urban nature and exploration on March 14th at the Clark! More information and a link to RSVP are below.

Birds & Books: Ornithology and Scientific Exploration from the 16th Century to the Present Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street Los Angeles, CA 90018 A workshop co-hosted by the Clark Library, and Occidental College’s Special C...

08/28/2019

We hope you will be able to join us for this exciting event celebrating the life and work of printer and artist Vance Gerry on September 27!

An Animated Character: An Evening of Vance Gerry Friday, September 27, 2019 5:30–7:30 p.m. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018 The Whittington Press has recently released Vance Gerry & The Weather Bird Press, a limited edition book about the life and ...

01/14/2019

The Clark has been in the news lately, but not for anything discovered in the reading room...

Flocks of hard-core bird watchers are converging on a downtown Los Angeles library to catch a glimpse of an extremely rare red-flanked bluetail. The Old World avian species has only been spotted in North America twice before, and has made a temporary home outside W.A. Clark Memorial Library.

01/14/2019

Our manuscripts librarian made a big discovery at the Clark yesterday and almost 100 people have come to the library this morning to see it — but it isn’t in the reading room. Our gardens behind the library have been hosting a rare bird — a Red-Flanked Bluetail, which is a resident of Old World spruce forests and should be spending the winter in East Asia right now. Vagrant birds aren’t anything unusual - birds overshoot their migration routes all the time or migrate in the wrong direction, but a Bluetail in Los Angeles is pretty big deal for birders. This species has only been recorded twice before in California and has only a handful of other North American sightings in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Maybe our new slogan should be Rare Books, Rare Birds? 📷 : @ William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

10/26/2018

Provenance of the Haynes Foundation Letterhead Woodblocks By Dawn Aveline on Tue, 2018-10-09 16:37 August 31, 2018. Research compiled and drafted by Stephanie Geller, MLIS UCLA 2019; Edited by Dawn Aveline, Preservation Officer, UCLA Library; Photographs by Dawn Aveline and Stephanie Geller The prov...

10/04/2018

We spent yesterday afternoon packing seeds for our new seed sharing program, The Clark Library Seed Catalogue. We’ve found some historical heirloom veggies, herbs and flowers from that we think have cool connections to items in our collections and want to share them with you! We’ll start distributing seeds at our Open House in October 10th from 4-7pm. After that The Seed Catalogue will be open for business in the library’s reading room during our regular hours. We hope you will stop by to pick up some seeds for your garden and grow along with us at 🌱🦉🌱