Notes:
Notes:
Library service in Boyle Heights goes back to 1889 with the formation of the Boyle Heights Library Association, which offered a free reading room and books at a low rental fee. This reading room became a center for discussion and the exchange of ideas. In 1886 a mule car service had been established on First Street extending to Cummings, so this was a natural location for the library discussion center to flourish. In 1899 the reading room was taken over by the Los Angeles Library Association as its first delivery station, located in the Boyle Heights Drug Store, near Cummings St. Community members ran the library until 1905, when it was moved to its own quarters in a store room at 1964 East First St.