The County of Los Angeles Public Library provides a variety of special services to meet the information needs of specific target audiences. These services draw on all of the resources of the Library and beyond. The service offered is not dependent on a specific materials collection.
Staff are highly skilled in providing service to their particular audience.
The County of Los Angeles Public Library, in cooperation with Los Angeles County Department of Health Services prenatal clinics, has devised a bilingual program to provide parents with skills to share a love of reading with their children. Clinic patients are introduced to resources available at their nearby public library and invited to become library users. The women and their significant others are also referred to local literacy programs, as appropriate. In addition, the women are invited to visit the library for baby reunions where project staff provide further instruction on how to read and talk to baby, how to use toys effectively and identify other community resources available to help the mothers provide a good beginning for the new baby. The bookmobiles travel to communities that do not have immediate access to a nearby library.