All LA County Library locations will be closed on Tuesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day. Our Digital Library is open 24/7.
Join us for an engaging discussion of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale. The story of two French sisters who resist the Nazi occupation during World War II. Copies available for checkout.
Lynwood Library was established in May 1915. It began as a volunteer library, but soon joined the Los Angeles County Public Library System. From a small club-house room on Long Beach Boulevard, the library was moved in 1917 to a storeroom at the corner of Long Beach Boulevard and Fernwood Avenue, then to Elmwood Avenue, from 1918-24. From 1924 to 1956, the library was housed in the old building on Sanborn Avenue.
In 1956, a new structure was built in the Civic Center to house this fast-growing County Library facility. During the next decade, the library patronage again outgrew the library building.
In 1977, a new library at the present location opened for service. The library was refurbished in the fall of 2004.
