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Intern Shakti Maisen cataloging books in the stacks at the Arboretum Library, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden. Photograph by Cynthia Vargas

With the rapid expansion of the internet, are botanic garden libraries still active and relevant? Indeed they are! Here is just one of them, serving the greater Los Angeles area.

In the 1940s, the founders of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden followed a long-standing tradition by creating a library in conjunction with an arboretum or botanic garden. California is blessed with four botanic garden libraries staffed with professional librarians. The Arboretum Library shares the state with the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, Blaksley Library at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and the Research Library at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. The Elisabeth C Miller Library at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens is the only other such library on the West Coast.

Although the Arboretum Library was originally intended as a staff library, the founders and subsequent lib...

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