Join other literacy students for our inaugural Adult Literacy Book Club.
This month we are reading The Giver by Lois Lowry! 14 copies will be available for loan on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Central Library Info Desk beginning November 4, 2025.
Please stop by the Central Library to retrieve your copy. You may also email literacy@glendaleca.gov or call 818-548-6450 to reserve one of the 14 copies.
You are welcome to bring your own book.
Registration not required.
Established in 1906.
Library services in Glendale were first provided in 1906. The women of the Tuesday Afternoon Club, a social and philanthropic organization, raised money through a series of lectures to fund a library collection. The library opened in a renovated pool room at Third and E (Wilson and Everett) Streets with seventy books, soon supplemented by a State Traveling Library of fifty more, and served a population of 1,186.
In 1907, the City Trustees passed Ordinance 53 which established and supported a library which "...shall be forever free to the inhabitants and nonresident taxpayers of the City of Glendale..." The first year the library had 251 books, 165 registered patrons, and a budget of $248.88.
In 1913, a Carnegie grant of $12,500 made possible the construction of the main library at Kenwood and Fifth (Harvard Street). The building was completed and dedicated November 13, 1914.
