Baldwin Hills Branch Library

Specialties

The Baldwin Hills Branch Library is one of 72 branches of the Los Angeles Public Library. Together with the Central Library, we serve the City of Los Angeles and those living in California with books, magazines, DVDs, audiobooks, e-​media (including e-​books, e-​audio books, e-​movies) and a wide assortment of databases. Because we are linked together with the Central Library and the other 72 branches, you have access to over 6 million items and can request through a hold or telephone transfer request to have books, DVDs, etc. transferred from one location to another. We offer a wide variety of programming for the community and have a community room with 80 person capacity. Our branch’s events can be seen at www​.lapl​.org under About the Library, Branch Libraries, and by clicking on Baldwin Hills. There is a link to a special Job Hunting Resource Guide on the main page as well. Join us each summer for the Summer Reading Club as well! Or join one of our Book Clubs and discuss a book.

History

Established in 1926.

Library service was first established in this community in 1926 at the Calvary Methodist Church on West Adams. In 1929 it moved to a small building at Orange and West Adams and in 1932 into a new building at 2619 S. La Brea. A facility was built in 1961 with 1957 library bond funds at 2906 S. La Brea. The branch was part of the 1998 Library Bond measure. A new facility was built on the existing site and opened on March 23, 2002.