Los Angeles, Monday Feb 7. Walked around the city, and then visited the very large City Library just finished. Curious architecture, all in concrete, broad spaces more to show than for books. Was not impressed at all with the value of the library. It takes up an entire square and is set terrace like atop the hill surrounded by a very large gardens. If they have a book stack I did not see it. The idea appears to be to give everyone free entry to go to the shelves and pick out what you want. All the books I saw are arranged flat against the walls. No aisles anywhere. The budget seldom may have had too books, but there seems main Economic Geology and Petroleum. Then visited the Los Angeles Art and Nat. Hist. Museum in the old Exposition grounds. Their Rancho La Brea collection of course wonderful. Also the Crannell (illegible) of Africa and North America, decaying arts elsewhere.