Donate a Book Plate
Help the Monterey Park Library Foundation help the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library. By purchasing a book plate to be placed inside a book for adults, children, or teens; you enable the library to actually purchase the book from our vendors at a group discount while saving processing costs. See sample book plates below:
Photography Exhibit
Interested in volunteering?
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!
Transforming Life After 50 Study
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.
Employment Development Department Outreach
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
Outpost of Wonder, Ricardo 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
New Release DVDs available for $2 for 2 days -- Bluray $3 for 2 days
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
Visit the Library Career Center
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
Homework Assistance Program
The Children's Services Department offers a free Homework Assistance Program for elementary school children who need help with their homework while studying at the library.
Local high school students conduct this Homework Assistance Program by volunteering their time and expertise on school subjects such as English, mathematics and science. The program is held in the Homework Asisstance Room Monday through Thursday from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. during the school year.
Please call the Children’s Desk at (626) 307-1358 for details.
How Libraries Stack Up: 2010
In America, we go to libraries to find jobs, create new careers and help grow our small businesses. We borrow books, journals, music and movies. We learn to use the latest technology. We get the tools and information needed to reenter the workforce. We get our questions answered, engage in civic activities, meet with friends and co-workers and improve our skills at one of the 16,600 U.S. public libraries. Every day, our public libraries deliver millions of dollars in resources and support that meet the critical needs of our communities.
