Books You’ll Love to Read
If you enjoy biographies try these good reads available at the library:

Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly
Told in Mark Kelly’s voice, the book chronicles their lives, the overwhelming challenges of brain injury and their journey of healing, love and courage.

Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon by Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD with Mim Eichler Rivas
The remarkable life story of Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, his transformation from illegal immigrant to American citizen, gifted student at the University of California, Berkeley and at Harvard Medical School.  Today he is known internationally as a renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer.

Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Robert K. Massie tells with historical mastery the extraordinary story of a young German princess who traveled to Russia and rose to become one of the most powerful and captivating women in history.

The library offers many educational and recreational programs including these great February programs:
Monday Computer Classes
Basic Computer Classes in Cantonese
February 6, 13, and 27 at 7 pm in the Computer Lab

Tuesday Open Lab Computer Classes
Practice your computer skills and learn more about E-mail, Word, Excel, and the Internet.
February 7, 14, 21, and 28 at 7 pm in the Computer Lab

Wednesday Computer Classes
Keyboard Drills in English
February 8, 15, 22, and 29 at 10:30 am in the Computer Lab

Film Programs
International Film Program
Wednesday, February 15 at 2 pm in the Friends Room
Chinese Monthly Film Program
Sunday, February 26 at 2 pm in the Friends Room

Awakening of Body, Mind & Soul Lecture
Speaker Henry Chang will talk about how to live a healthy and green life.
Presentation in Mandarin and English translation is available.
Sunday, February 5 at 1:30 pm in the Friends Room

2012 Labor Law Update Program
Tuesday, February 7 at 6 pm in the Friends Room

LA Opera Talks Program
Learn about the humorous and lighthearted opera, Albert Herring.
Sunday, February 12 at 3 pm in the Large Classroom

For Families and Individuals with Household Incomes of $50,000 or Less
Through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program
Thursday, March 1, 2012
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library
318 south Ramona Avenue
Monterey Park, CA 91754
**Appointment Required**
Please RSVP at 213-833-6036 to schedule an appointment to
receive Free Tax Preparation Services

 

The Office of Congresswoman Judy Chu,
32nd Congressional District
In partnership with
The Chinatown Service Center
Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library
offers
FREE INCOME TAX PREPARATION
Through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program
For taxpayers with an annual income of $50,000 or less
Every Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm
February 5, 2012 through April 15, 2012
at
Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library: 318 S. Ramona Ave,
Monterey Park, CA 91754

Appointment Required
To make an appointment please call (626) 448-1271

You may be able to volunteer only briefly or you might be able to make a longer commitment. We will do our best to accommodate everyone who wants to give their time, but the holidays are not the only time of the year when we need volunteers. Volunteering can be the gift that keeps on giving!

Anyone who is interested in volunteering must complete an application which can be picked up from any of the library’s information desks or downloaded from this website. Here is a link to more information: http://montereyparklibrary.llwip.org/support/volunteer. If you have any questions, please contact Gwen Kishida, Volunteer Coordinator, at (626) 307-1269. We hope that you can get involved with the library!

The Monterey Park Library received a grant from the California State Library to make a study of the baby boomer generation (ages 47-65) in the surrounding community. The research provided information regarding this generation's demographics, interests, education, etc.

Read the complete report.

EDD is currently conducting a public outreach campaign designed to raise customer awareness and encourage usage of new and online Unemployment Insurance (UI) services.

View their poster

Click EDD Debit Card resource page

The Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library Board of Trustees selected Artist Ricardo Mendoza’s multimedia creation, “Outpost of Wonder” for the mural to be located over the west door of the library. The mural was completed in August, 2011, after nearly two years of work by Mr. Mendoza.

The Artist created the mural to focus on his notion of the library as an “….outpost of wonder. The nine planets accompany these forms, representing the library’s physical structure expanding into space. The view is a representation of the library opening and revealing its structure for contemplation as an outpost amongst our greater universe, a resource for broader contemplations. The hands are offering both the seeds of science and nurturing the growing root of knowledge. Suspended just over them are several spheres representing planets and catching the light as three dimensional relief forms with shadow. Some of the dropping seeds are also three-dimensional forms. The thin lines of the suspension cables articulate more visually subtle but alluring geometric contemplations of space inherent in the mural’s parameters and provide allusion to further dimensions of knowledge resourced within the library itself. My goal is to create an inviting work that actively dialogues with the site’s features utilizing multi-dimensional devices while offering moments of intriguing visual discovery by all library visitors regardless of age, ethnicity or purpose for entering.”

Mr. Mendoza was born in San Diego and grew up in southern California and the East Coast and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received a B.F.A. in painting from Otis/Parsons School of Art and an Associate Arts degree from Orange Coast College. His artwork spans diverse neighborhoods and communities throughout Los Angeles. Past public art commissions include the Los Angeles Metro Firestone Blue Line Station, the Pacific Alliance Medical Building, and the Lanark Park Recreation Building. He also did a Martian landscape for AT & T, a cosmological chart of the universe for the film “Psycho Sushi” and an acrylic for “The Viper Room.” He has had exhibitions at Otis – Los Angeles, Flor de Luna Gallery, Museum of Arts – Downtown, and the Echo Park Arts Festival.

by Norman Jaffe

Thanks to a generous donation from the Monterey Park Library Foundation, the library is delighted to offer NEW RELEASES. This special collection has a different fee and checkout period than the library's other DVD collection with all the money going back to this New Release collection. New Releases DVDs are $2 for 2 days. Blurays are $3 for 2 days.

If the DVD is not available on the shelves, you may reserve it so you can check it out in the future. Ask staff at the Reference or Circulation desks. The DVDs can also be reserved through the library catalog website.

Current List of New Release DVDs and Blurays

The Career Center offers:

• Information on Career Paths
• Job Listings
• Resources on Resumes and Cover Letters
• Information on Interviews
• Easy to use Online Resources for Job Seekers
• Computers to assist with Job Searches & Applications
• Classes to help with Job Test Preparation
• Classes to help with Job and Career Searches

Job search website:

monster.com
careerbuilder.com
edd.ca.gov
worldjournal.com

Located on the 1st floor across from the Reference Desk

Open during Regular Library Hours
For more information contact the Reference Desk at (626)-307-1368