People around the world have celebrated the start of each new year for centuries. Ancient Romans gave each other gifts of branches from sacred trees. Ancient Persians gave gifts of eggs, which symbolized productiveness. Today, most festivities for the new year begin on December 31 (New Year’s Eve) and continue into January 1 [...]
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Palos Verdes Library District’s Peninsula Center Library has a unique public artwork called Stellar Axis that was designed by world-renowned artist Lita Albuquerque. The artwork slices through the building at the angle of the axis of the Earth, representing a cylindrical shaft of light coming from the sun and the stars all the way down to [...]
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Summer at the Peninsula Center Library was kicked off with a performance by the Isami Taiko Group of Gardena Buddhist Church and Koshin Taiko of Venice Beach. The enthusiastic group met with an equally enthusiastic reception from an appreciative audience.
Monday, April 5, 2010
April 14 will mark the 251st anniversary of George Frideric Handel’s death. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and others, the German-born Handel is known as one of the great Baroque composers. Baroque was a genre of European classical music c. 1600 to 1750 closely related to church and court life that conveyed drama and elaborate [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
At the Peninsula Center Library, you can find recommended reading on the new book shelves closest to the reference desk. Staff members have chosen some of their favorite books, fiction and nonfiction, and have included reviews. Check it out, for literary endorsements based on personal reading experience.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Our new book display next to the circulation desk at Peninsula Center features energy and the environment. At a time of apparent climate change and dwindling natural resources, we’ve all become sensitized to issues of conservation and the size of carbon footprints. Check out the display and find materials addressing such individual decisions as getting rid [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Last Tuesday, Kitty Lim, of the South Bay Chinese School, presented a cooking demonstration at the Peninsula Center Library. An enthusiastic audience added to their culinary knowledge while enjoying roasted barbecue pork, vegetable fried rice, and steamed rice. Find books on Chinese cooking in the Palos Verdes Library District collection here.
Monday, October 5, 2009
In the 200th anniversary year of his birth, this week marks 160 years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is credited by some with many milestones: America’s first literary critic, writer of the first detective story, and inventor of the horror genre. In honor of Poe and his contributions to world literature, he’s [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
In 1994, as part of a facilities expansion project, the Palos Verdes Library District commissioned Gwynn Murrill to create original artwork for the Peninsula Center Library. The results were two bronze cheetahs and a carved limestone column. Murrill is best known for her three-dimensional sculpture, and the Library cheetahs are an abstracted idea of the [...]
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Take a look at our new custom-made book display cart near the circulation desk at Peninsula Center. This beautiful object was built by Sid Wielin, one of our volunteers. We now have an elegant space for short-term topical collections, with room for many more books shelved cover-forward. Thanks for your labor of love, Sid! The current display [...]
Friday, December 30, 2011
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