Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library (Above)
Convenient to all parts of Palms via Overland Avenue or the I-10 Rosa Parks Freeway, the old branch library is now in a new building, opened in 2003 in Palms Park. Its community room can be rented by local organizations. Go here for hours of service and other details. Go here to learn about the Friends of the Palms-Rancho Park Library.

Mar Vista Branch Library
Only nine-tenths of a mile from Palms, this spanking new library on Venice Boulevard at Inglewood Avenue is much bigger than the Palms-Rancho Park Branch and has better parking, too. Go here for hours of service and other details and here for a map. You can also get there by Bus Line 33 of the MTA.

Culver City Julian Dixon Branch Library
The first library in Palms was a county branch housed in the Pacific Electric train station on Venice Boulevard. It later moved south and became the Culver City Julian Dixon branch library at 4975 Overland Ave. Its remarkable history and details of its sizeable collection, including Judaica and fiction specializations, are told here. It is a selective government depository for federal and state documents.

Telephone and Internet Services
Every book that circulates in the Los Angeles City library system is available to you via the Internet. Go to the library catalog here to find the book you want, then have it sent to your local branch to be picked up within a few days. The library will notify you by telephone or e-mail when it is ready. And it can even remind you automatically by e-mail four days before it is due for return. You can renew it if nobody else wants it.

The Culver City Julian Dixon Library has a similar service. Go here for the details.