It's the Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Ca. Here's a link to the website
www.huntington.org
If you click on the library and scroll down you'll find a link to the Library's online catalog. You can search the Library's holdings but alas! you cannot check out books or get anything on Inter-Library Loans (ILL). :-(
It's predominately a post-doctoral research library but on occasions they'll let non-PhDs' in with letters of recommendations etc. Yeah I know it seems snobby but when you see what the library holds you?ll understand a bit why they are cautious here.
OTOH If you have a question about something you can write a curator and they?ll reply with an answer. For questions on piracy I would go to Robert "Roy" Ritchie who is the head of the Research Division. We call him the "Pirate King" ;-) Also you can ask me and if I have the time I will be glad to research it for you. I think you can reach him through the website.
Also you can peruse the art collections and the gardens. There has been a great Elizabeth I exhibition going on here with attending lectures and events incluiding a Elizabethan festival with re-enactors (court & miltary) that was a great success.
Too bad you're all the way in LA (not L.A. ;-)) and can't come over to see it. I'd put a pass or two aside for you mon Capt.