Long Beach Public Library

The Long Beach Public Library (LBPL) is an American public library system located in Long Beach, California.

For the library on Long Island, see Long Beach Public Library (New York).

Main Library
A child reading a book inside the Main library.

The Main Library's first building was a Carnegie funded library. The Library opened in 1909 within Pacific Park, now known as Lincoln Park, downtown on Pacific Avenue at Broadway. When the building site was condemned for construction of a New Main Library and City Hall building in the late 1970s, the library was moved to a building located on Ximeno Avenue, for a period of about 18 months.

In 2015, the Long Beach Public Library became the first library in California to begin circulating zines publicly in its collection. Now the main branch houses a few hundred zines to take home.

In January 2019, the Main Library was permanently closed in lieu of the new location, which reopened on September 21, 2019 as the Billie Jean King Main Library, with King attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony herself.[1] The building occupies a first floor and lower level at 101 Pacific Ave, at the intersection of Ocean Boulevard and Pacific Avenue, across the park from its former location.

Branches
Main
Alamitos
Ruth Bach
Bay Shore
Brewitt
Burnett
Dana
El Dorado
Bret Harte
Los Altos
Mark Twain
Michelle Obama
A map of each library location under the Long Beach Public Library system.

The Long Beach Public Library operates the following branches:

Databases and downloadable media

References
  1. "Long Beach makes it official: It's the Billie Jean King Main Library now". Press Telegram. 2019-09-22. Retrieved 2020-08-25.

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