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.

The current Main library 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.

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.

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

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