We will perform server maintenance on Sunday, January 4, 2026, starting at 5:30 pm. During this time, customers will not be able to access My Account, Catalog, the Mobile App, or our Digital Library.
Calling all Book Lovers to join us and discuss your favorite books that you read this year. Refreshments will be provided by the Friends of La Crescenta Library. For adults.
Calling all Book Lovers to join us for an end of a year social where we celebrate our love of reading. Book Club members and book enthusiasts are invited to join us for an entertaining evening of discussing what we all love most--books and how a good read can have a lasting impact on us. Let's ring in 2025 by remembering all our good reads in 2024. Bring the name of your favorite read and by the end of evening you can take home a list of books to get 2025 off to a good start.
La Crescenta Library first opened in November 1914 as the 78th branch of the Los Angeles County Public Library. The collection was first housed in a local church building, and subsequently moved several times; once into a school house, later into a local store front, and into the Sears building in 1926.
By 1932, the library had settled into a building at 3930 La Crescenta Avenue. As the population of La Crescenta grew, so to did the demand for a new building. The library found an appropriate site on the corner of Foothill Blvd and La Crescenta Ave, and opened in March of 1963.
By 2005 the population had once again outgrown the library's space, so the La Crescenta community sought a new building. Thanks to funding from Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, and Congressman David Dreier, the County of Los Angeles was able to construct an updated facility in its current location.
The building broke ground in 2007, and reopened in January 2010. The new 14,000 square foot facility, built in the style of the arts and crafts movement, features modern technology and meeting space open to the public.
