Richard J Riordan Library

The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) will meet the need for professional public librarians in the ethnically and culturally diverse City of Los Angeles by partnering with the University of California, Los Angeles, and San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science to promote LAPL as a potential employer. This project will offer tuition reimbursement incentives for LAPL clerical employees to attend library school, recruit clerical staff from the student population of the local library school partners, and present a regular series of reference institutes for library school students. LAPL will add up to 40 new librarians in Los Angeles through these efforts.