Filipino-American Library, Los Angeles

The Filipino-American Library holds books, magazines, academic journals, student papers, maps, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters, program booklets, DVDs, CDs, videos, encyclopedias, children's literature, and documents  written by Filipino and Filipino-Americans. Some key words of their collections are FAL, FAHI, PARRAL, Pamana, Filipino, Filipino-American, FilAm, Fil-Am, Pilipino, Pilipino-American, Philippines, Filipinotown, HiFi, Hi-Fi.  

The Fil-Am library is located in Los Angeles's Filipinotown, within the FASGI (Filipino-American Service Group, Inc.) compound. Filipinos in LA have also experienced displacement and evictions due to Los Angeles's redevelopment planning. The library holds dissertations from students who studied the history of Filipinos in LA and how development planning impacted them. 

Check out their website at http://www.filipinoamericanlibrary.org/ They have a great Informational Portal that links to other Filipino-American historical and cultural preservation work.

For more information, contact

Jonathan Lorenzo

Filipino American Library (FAL)

135 N. Parkview St., Historic Filipinotown

Los Angeles, CA 90026-5215

filamlibrary@sbcglobal.net 

213-382-0488

www.filipinoamericanlibrary.org

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