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LA County Library Continues Work Ready Program to Enhance Job-Readiness By Sentinel News Service LA County Library announces the continuation of its Work Ready series, a workforce development program launched in December, designed for Library customers who are looking to build job skills or discover new career opportunities, but who lack the device or internet connection to make it happen. The pandemic has created new challenges for those in the workforce and those looking to reenter it. Customers who are interested in Work Ready can enroll in a 6-week session, offered several times through...

Tuesday, Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. In this newsletter, we spend a lot of time talking about school shutdowns, the challenges of distance learning, and the uneven path back to campus. All of those things are vitally important. But today we bring you a different kind of education story — one about rock ‘n’ roll. Before the pandemic, student attendance at th...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. “My interest in books probably explains why I not only survived high school but arrived at Occidental College in 1979 with a thin but passable knowledge of political issues and a series of half-baked opinions that I’d toss out during late-night bull sessions in the dorm.” This humble and self-effacing personal assessment comes from Barack Obama in an excerpt from “A Promised Land,” the 44th president’s bestselling memoir. The book charts his improbable journey to the White House, including a pivotal time at L.A.’...

Print Before the pandemic, Frank Haffner scheduled his routine around a daily trip to his local library in Rosemead. If he arrived early to beat the crowd, he preferred to nestle into an overstuffed chair in front of the library’s large windows. With the San Gabriel Mountains at his back, he used the natural light to illuminate his reading materials. Sometimes he sat at a table, spread out his stack of books and perused them until one piqued his interest. Haffner has since had to create his own reading nook at home. He checks out books and DVDs through the library’s online service about o...

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