Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Today, millions of Angelenos use the Central Library downtown (which turns 100 this year) and over 70 branch locations to access the Los Angeles Public Library’s collection of over 8 million books.

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Did a new viral dessert place open at 5th & Flower? Anxious fans gossiped in the halls of our grand old Los Angeles Central Library on Thursday morning to celebrate the institution’s centennial. Loud ...