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Image of students at the library tables at The Willows, a private school in Los Angeles

 

The Willows Library - a vibrant 21st-century environment located at the heart of our campus–is a hub for collaboration and cross-disciplinary learning. Intellectually and architecturally open, the library offers a spacious environment where students, teachers, and library staff share, question, listen and learn from one another.

Reaching every corner of our campus - with glass doors opening to our yard, the Library has a bustling, inviting atmosphere with students of all ages checking out books, reading on sofas, listening to a story in the book corner, or researching on laptops.

With 27,000+ resources including digital and print books, playaways, Tablets, iPads, iPods, Mac minis, audiobooks, DVD’s, E-books, and a wide range of databases, teacher resources, and streaming services, our library most definitely has it all.

The library program is the intersection of source literacy, media literacy, and information literacy, focusing on teaching critical research and strong research skills to help students judge the credibility of news and information. The library links The Willows to our Los Angeles and national communities by hosting visiting authors, speakers, librarians, and educators to exchange ideas. Some of our visiting authors include Jason Reynolds, Sharon Draper, Samira Ahmed, Meg Wolitzer, Holly Goldberg Sloan, and Kwame Alexander.

Author Visits

Phil Bildner speaks to students at The Willows, a private school in Los Angeles

Phil Bildner is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books for kids such as 2021 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor-winning middle grade novel, A High Five for Glenn Burke and the Margaret Wise Brown Prize winning Marvelous Cornelius.

Tad Hills speaks to students at The Willows, a private school in Los Angeles

Tad Hills is an American children’s book author and illustrator. He is the creator of the New York Times bestselling Rocket and Duck & Goose books.

Jasmine Warge speaks to students at The Willows, a private school in Los Angeles

Jasmine Warga is the New York Times-bestselling author of middle grade novels Other Words For Home, The Shape of Thunder, and A Rover’s Story.

Our Library - Addressing Current Topics & Events

The beauty of our library is its dynamic, fluid quality. It allows quiet individual exploration, as well as small and large group discourse and sharing. Everyone feels connected–a true community of learners.Lisa Rosenstein, Head of School

Andrea Wang speaks to students at The Willows, a private school in Los Angeles

Andrea Wang is an American author of children's books. Her fiction and nonfiction picture books and middle grade novels focusing on the Asian and Asian-American experience have earned numerous awards and accolades.

Students reading books in the library at The Willows, a school in Los Angeles

The Library–A Hub of Learning

Boys looking at books in the library at The Willows, a private school in Los Angeles

The beauty of our library is its dynamic fluid quality. It allows quiet individual exploration, as well as small and large group discourse and sharing. Everyone feels connected-a true community of learners.

- Kate Rao, Librarian

DK students in library class at The Willows, a school in Los Angeles

“Libraries are no longer simply archives of books, but rather centers of learning that combine many different types of resources and experiences to broaden the human experience.” Cathy Leverkus, Emeritus Director of Library