Cypress Library

Address:

Telephone:

(714) 826-0350

The Cypress Library is closed for refurbishment beginning March 1st. 

The library is scheduled to reopen on March 29.
Library materials may be returned to the book drop placed in the parking lot for this closure or to any branch of the OC Public Libraries.  The closest branch library for your convenience is the La Palma Branch Library, located at 7842 Walker St. in LaPalma.  Books on hold and Interlibrary Loans may be picked up at the La Palma Branch Library.  The Sheet Music Collection is unavailable at this time.

Service Hours:

•  Monday - 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
• Tuesday - 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
• Wednesday - 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
• Thursday - 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
• Friday - closed
• Saturday - 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.
• Sunday - Noon to 5 p.m.

Special Collections

The Cypress Branch Library has a huge collection of music scores! Over 45,000 piano/vocal scores and instrumental music are indexed in a collection of approximately 7,000 books.

WECARE
(Working to Enhance Care and Resources for Elders)

Employment Assistance and Job Counseling for Adults

Mondays and Thursdays
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Presented by California State University Fullerton Institute of Gerontology.

Computers will be available.  Bring your laptop if you have one or a flash drive to save your information.
Trained and experienced volunteers will be here to help.

Winter Storytime!

Wednesdays starting December 2, 2009
Toddlers - 9:30 a.m.
Preschoolers - 10:30 a.m.

January 13, 2010

Storytime will resume in February:

February 3
February 10
February 17
February 24

Adult Book Chat

January 21, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in the Cypress Library Community Room.  Join us for a chat about Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani.

About the book:  Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gap is home to some of the most charming eccentrics in the state. Ave Maria Mulligan is the town's self-proclaimed spinster, a thirty-five year old pharmacist with a "mountain girl's body and a flat behind." She lives an amiable life with good friends and lots of hobbies until the fateful day in 1978 when she suddenly discovers that she's not who she always thought she was. Before she can blink, Ave's fielding marriage proposals, fighting off greedy family members, organizing a celebration for visiting celebrities, and planning the trip of a lifetime;a trip that could change her view of the world and her own place in it forever. Brimming with humor and wise notions of small-town life, Big Stone Gap is a gem of a book with a giant heart. . . . From the Trade Paperback edition.

February 18, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in the Cypress Library.  Join us for a chat about On Gold Mountain by Lisa See.

This account of a Chinese family's adventures in America over the course of a century offers a tapestry of immigrant life.

Teen Book Club--Cypress Teen Reads

January 21, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in the Cypress Library Community Room, Cypress Teen Reads (ages 11-19).  We will discuss:

The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.

Kitty Kitty by Michele Jaffe

When seventeen-year-old Jasmine Callihan is whisked off for an extended visit to Venice, Italy, at the start of her senior year, she tries her best to stay out of trouble but gets caught up in trying to solve a murder mystery.

Fire by Kristin Cashore

In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

February 18, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in the Cypress Library, Cypress Teen Reads (ages 11-19).  We will discuss:

Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson

Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, Chasing Lincoln's Killer is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.