The County of Los Angeles Public Library
Library Info
The County of Los Angeles Public Library was established in 1912 under authority of the County Free Library Act. The Library is a special fund department operating under the authority of the County Board of Supervisors. Today it is one of the major libraries of our nation, and provides library service to over 3.5 million residents living in unincorporated areas and to residents of 51 of the 88 incorporated cities of Los Angeles County. The service area extends over 3,000 square miles. Supplementing the 7.7 million-volume book collection, the Library also offers magazines, newspapers, microfilm, pamphlets, art prints, government publications, and many specialized reference materials including on-line database searching.
It is the mission of the County of Los Angeles Public Library to provide our diverse communities with easy access to the information and knowledge they need to nurture their cultural exploration and lifelong learning. The vision of the library is to be a leader among community-based library systems in quality of service, breadth of material, use of technology, welcoming facilities and depth of community support.
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Program Scholar
Angus Fletcher, Assistant Professor, School of Theatre
University of Southern California
Angus Fletcher, Assistant Professor in the School of Theatre at the University of Southern California, specializes in theatre history, particularly Shakespeare and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His research focuses on the impact of theatre upon political science, psychology, ethics, and even biology. He has published nearly a dozen articles in journals such as Modern Philology, English Literary History, Studies in English Literature, and The Journal of the History of Ideas. His most recent article, forthcoming from Comparative Literature, argues that Machiavelli’s theory of democracy is indebted to his fascination with the slaves of Roman comedy. He is also working on a book entitled The Ethics of Doubt: Skepticism, Tragedy, and Community in the Age of Hamlet. His research has been supported by grants from the Huntington, the Clark Memorial Library, the Beinecke, and the Bodleian.
Angus received his PhD from Yale and taught for three years at Stanford before going to USC. He has received teaching awards from all three institutions. In addition to lectures on theatre history, he also teaches upper-level seminars on dramaturgy and script analysis.
Since joining the faculty at USC, Angus has become interested in the potential of theatrical approaches to plot and narrative to enrich cinema and television. He has mentored several undergraduate collaborations between the School of Theatre and the School of Cinematic Arts, and this summer, he received a Panavision grant to shoot a small feature film on the experience of U.S. aircrews serving in Saudi Arabia.
Previous Events
Iliad Performance
Join us for a performance of Homer's Iliad at the Lancaster Branch of the County of Los Angeles Public Library
601 W. Lancaster Blvd., Lancaster, CA 93534-3398
Contact Susan Broman at 562-940-8521 to RSVP or to gain more information
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March 12 2009 at 04:30 PM
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Acting Workshop
Join us for an Acting Workshop at the Lancaster Regional Branch of the County of Los Angeles Public Library
601 W. Lancaster Blvd., Lancaster, CA 93534-3398
Contact Susan Broman at 562-940-8521 to RSVP or to gain more information
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March 12 2009 at 03:00 PM
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This library is focusing on the thematic unit “Homer to Hip-Hop: Reinventing the Classics”
