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Vintage "National Library Week" poster.

“Creating Our Own Story”: How Metro Transportation Library & Archive Has Shared Collections And Information Since 1937

April 10-16 marksĀ National Library Week! Every April, The American Library Association sponsors a week-long celebration of libraries. This year’s theme is “Create Your Own Story,” one that is quite fitting for us. As a library, we have always been challenged to create our own story because we are unique in so many ways. We are [...]

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About Us

About Us

Metro’s Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library & Archive is one of the most comprehensive and innovative transportation research facilities in the United states. Our collection contains approximately 250,000 items significant to transporation in Southern California and beyond, 40% of which are found nowhere else. We provide a diverse suite of web-hosted resources, including extensive Flickr [...]

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