Join us for a fun and funny good time as magician Shawn McMaster performs spellbinding tricks and talks about the importance of reading. Ages 6 years and up.
Shawn will even teach you some simple magic tricks that you can perform for your friends!
This program is part of the 2025 Summer Reading Challenge. To learn more about the Summer Reading Challenge, upcoming programs for all ages, and more visit glac.info/SRC
Thank you to the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Trust for supporting this summer program. For more information on GLACT, please visit www.glact.org
We welcome persons with disabilities to participate in all our programs and events. For accommodations requests, please email LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov
PARKING
Visitors to the Glendale Central Library receive 3-hour FREE parking across Harvard Street at the Marketplace parking structure with validation at the service desk. Accessible parking is available on the east side of the building.
For additional information about this event, please contact Central Library at (818)548-2021 or send us an email at LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov.
AGE GROUP: | Tweens | Early Elementary | Children |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Performance |
TAGS: | Tweens | SummerReading | Summer Reading | Special Event | Performance | magic | Glendale Central Library | GLACSummer | Early Elementary | Children | Central Library |
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.
