17 branches! 20 more needed!! And all for only 1268 cardholders. That's a pretty ambitious plan. I don't imagine Miss Ida Condit would ever have believed we'd be serving over 600,000 people with only 13 libraries across the county. Or that there'd be talk of actually reducing the number of libraries we have for the residents of the county. She probably wouldn't have foreseen the current talk of privitization, either. In fact, I'd hardly care to make any predictions myself about what the future holds for public libraries in San Joaquin County but, at the very least, it's heartening to know how dedicated current staff at the Library are and how well loved our library is to our public!
Monday, April 26, 2010
What Will Tomorrow Bring?
Poking around in Google Books this afternoon, I came across a slew of entertaining library literature. Take a look at the report from San Joaquin County at the first annual convention of California county librarians in December, 1910:
17 branches! 20 more needed!! And all for only 1268 cardholders. That's a pretty ambitious plan. I don't imagine Miss Ida Condit would ever have believed we'd be serving over 600,000 people with only 13 libraries across the county. Or that there'd be talk of actually reducing the number of libraries we have for the residents of the county. She probably wouldn't have foreseen the current talk of privitization, either. In fact, I'd hardly care to make any predictions myself about what the future holds for public libraries in San Joaquin County but, at the very least, it's heartening to know how dedicated current staff at the Library are and how well loved our library is to our public!
17 branches! 20 more needed!! And all for only 1268 cardholders. That's a pretty ambitious plan. I don't imagine Miss Ida Condit would ever have believed we'd be serving over 600,000 people with only 13 libraries across the county. Or that there'd be talk of actually reducing the number of libraries we have for the residents of the county. She probably wouldn't have foreseen the current talk of privitization, either. In fact, I'd hardly care to make any predictions myself about what the future holds for public libraries in San Joaquin County but, at the very least, it's heartening to know how dedicated current staff at the Library are and how well loved our library is to our public!
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Yes this is the year County Libraries were formally established in California. We're celebrating our 100 anniversary in June.
That stinks about the privatization. Nevada and Kern fought them off. If you need any support let me know.
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