The Pasadena Public Library-Central Library, a detail seen here on Oct. 20, 2021, on Walnut Ave. is currently closed to the general public until a seismic retrofit is completed on the nearly 100 ...

Ethel Joan Butler Neal, 89, right, shown with daughter Carol McGee, helped one of Pasadena’s first librarians, her aunt Ethel Blakesley Hargrave, in the library when it was based in a resident ...

Pasadena City Council approved an $8.6 million contract as part of the Central Library project. The library has been closed since 2021 due to the building’s seismic vulnerability.

In response, Pasadena voters approved a five-year Special Library Parcel Tax in June 1993 by a 79.9% margin to restore the library’s budget to a level equivalent to funding received in 1989.

Pasadenans saving our own Notre Dame.The Pasadena Public Library-Central Library, a detail seen here on Oct. 20, 2021, on Walnut Ave. is currently closed to the general public until a seismic ...

It’s — part of the conversation. So Andy’s right, and Michelle fully realizes it, that this is a chance to reimagine Pasadena main as even more of a cultural center than it already is. The Wright ...