
"There are students who come in and try and do their work, people applying for jobs, people looking for housing, and homeless people who are just looking to connect."
Library volunteer John Arcos talks with his daughter, Allison Arcos, about his involvement with the library and explains how he uses his acquired set of skills to help support the library’s recognition of the “digital divide,” an uneven distribution of access to information and communication technology in communities.

Hutx Colunga, a middle school teacher at Long Beach Unified, Tracy Colunga, Chief Innovation Officer with the City of Long Beach, and their 10-year-old son, Quetzal talk about the books that have impacted their lives. They advocate the importance of books and share how the well-placed words in stories can be very influential.


Kim Ing tells her daughter, Susana Sngiem, about her life in Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge Genocide, living in a Thai refugee camp, and eventually moving to Long Beach, CA and raising her family.


Jerome Roberts, retired Long Beach Unified School District teacher, talks with his fiancé and fellow teacher, Laura Castillo about how the Civil Rights Movement impacted his life.
