Photo credit: James Garcia, taken at the rally outside of Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
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As an extreme heat warning stretches across Los Angeles, one of the most important pieces of the city’s emergency infrastructure is already sitting in nearly every neighborhood: the public library.
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