National Library Week April 19-25 "Find Your Joy" Includes $5k Opportunity

 Celebrate National Library Week April 19-25, 2026, with the theme “Find Your Joy” and Honorary Chair Mychal Threets!  

National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries and library professionals play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities.

National Library Week History | ALA

In the mid-1950s, research showed that Americans were spending less on books and more on radios, televisions and musical instruments. Concerned that Americans were reading less, the ALA and the American Book Publishers formed a nonprofit citizens organization called the National Book Committee in 1954. The committee's goals were ambitious. They ranged from "encouraging people to read in their increasing leisure time" to "improving incomes and health" and "developing strong and happy family life."   The ALA Archives Blog published an illustrated history of the event on April 10, 2015, by Lydia Tang, National Library Week: “For a Better-Read, Better-Informed America”.

Get creative, get paid!

💸 Enter our book lover design contest by April for a chance to win $5,000 (1st place) + cash prizes for 2nd & 3rd. DEAD simple: make a killer design and bring your imagination to life! 🎉 #BookLoverDesignContest    Book Look – Books That Changed My Life

CONTEST SCHEDULE:

3/18/26: Submissions open
4/25/26: Last chance to enter (submissions close at midnight) 
5/1/26: Finalists selected and announced by judging panel, voting begins  
5/15/26: Voting ends at midnight
WINNERS ANNOUCED BY 5/22/26`

Los Angeles COUNTY Libraries have online and in person events.  Let's Celebrate National Library Week – LA County LibraryLet's Celebrate National Library Week – LA County Library 

Los Angeles CITY Libraries For Kids: Celebrate Earth Day and National Library Week | Los Angeles Public Library

April 09, 2 p.m.  Doodle & Chat: Recycle/Reuse/Rhyme  
North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Branch Library

April 09, 4:30 p.m.  Tea and a Tale Virtual Live Reading Series  
Sherman Oaks Martin Pollard Branch Library

April 19, 2 p.m.  The First Women of the Los Angeles Public Library
Robertson Branch Library

April 21, 6:30 p.m.  Central 100 Presents: Imbibing LA - Boozing it Up in the City of Angels
Studio City Branch Library

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