We periodically highlight “Resources To Know” which lead you to important information sources for research, as well as the core collection of classic titles in the
We are celebrating another achievement today: our Flickr online photo gallery has clocked 1.5 million views after just three years since we began offering up our digital images to the
This month, the County of Los Angeles released it’s long-awaited Bicycle Master Plan (214p. PDF), along with extensive technical appendices (195p.) This comprehensive approach to
This past weekend, the Metro Transportation Library & Archive participated in the 6th Annual LA as Subject Archives Bazaar. The annual event brings together more
The mutual love affair between people and their place is one of the most powerful influences in our lives, yet rarely thought of in terms
History comes alive once again on Saturday, October 22, as more than 80 of Southern California’s rare and archival collections come together at the 6th
Whether considered for alignment following the Los Angeles River, or connecting the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach, Los Angeles’ historic monorail proposals each have their own fascinating story.
Archives are anything but static warehouses of historic resources — the are dynamic, organic things. New items are added, while the collection is sometimes reorganized to
Last week, we took a look at one of Los Angeles’ proposed “future stations of the past”: the history behind the never-realized plans for a
After exploring the fate of transit stations previously planned for Wilshire & La Brea and a downtown “Metroport,” we now turn our attention to early