This guide was created by our Spring 2021 Reference and Instruction Librarian Interns:
Kate Pham, MLIS, UCLA Class of 2021
Daryl Barker, MLIS, UCLA Class of 2022
Los Angeles Research Guide
The train had brought them to this place called Los Angeles, where the magical and the real, the world of fantasy books and history, seemed to coexist on the same extended stage of streets, rivers, and railroad tracks. —Héctor Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries (2011)
Image of "Roger Puta caught Union Pacific Bus 23 at the UP East Los Angeles Station on February 7, 1971" licensed by CC PDM 1.0
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