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Card Catalog Drawer Recognition

Provide support for the Los Angeles Public Library and receive permanent recognition in the landmark Central Library with a contribution to the Library Foundation of $5,000, which may be paid over 5 years.

With this gift, you can have your name engraved on a bronze plaque and placed on one of the historic mahogany card catalog drawers in the Central Library's Lodwrick M. Cook Rotunda. These original card catalog drawers, which are in limited supply, provide a lasting and highly visible way to show your support for the Library.

To name a Card Catalog Drawer and support the Los Angeles Public Library, please process your request through the Library Store or download and print the application form (Adobe Acrobat pdf file), fill it out and mail it with your contribution to: Library Foundation of Los Angeles 630 West Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA 90071, or fax the form with your credit card information to 213/228-7509.

A matching gift from your employer can be applied toward the balance due.

For more information, contact Catherine Cosgrove, Vice President, Development, 213/228-7499.

 
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Gregory Peck Literary Endowment Fund Tile Campaign.

Donors who give $10,000 or more (which may be paid over five years) to the Gregory Peck Literary Endowment receive recognition on tiles inscribed with their names at the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library.

To name a tile and support the Los Angeles Public Library, please download and print the application form (Adobe Acrobat pdf file), fill it out and mail it with your contribution to: Library Foundation of Los Angeles 630 West Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA 90071, or fax the form with your credit card information to 213/228-7509.

For more information, contact Catherine Cosgrove, Vice President, 213/228-7499.

 
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Collections of Books and Materials

Contributions of $25,000 or more to name a collection are placed in the Library Foundation's Collection Fund to provide long term support for the acquisition of books and materials for the Central Library and 71 branch libraries.

For information on Central Library collections available for naming, contact Catherine Cosgrove, Vice President, Development, 213/228-7499.

 
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Branch Library Improvement Projects

For information, contact Catherine Cosgrove, Vice President, Development, 213/228-7499.

 
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ne of the Library's most charismatic leaders was Charles Fletcher Lummis, a former Los Angeles Times City Editor and founder of the Southwest Museum who served as City Librarian from 1905 to 1910. During his tenure, Mr. Lummis oversaw development of the Library's collection of important California and Southwestern titles, an irreplaceable record of the state's past. He was so concerned about theft of these volumes he constructed a branding iron that enabled him to brand the legend "L.A. Public Library" on the upper edges of each book. While some considered the act barbaric, there is no record of any book with that brand ever disappearing from the library.