. News notes of California libraries . ssued quarterly in the interest ofthe libraries of the State by theCalifornia State Library. Entered as second class matterDecember 1913 at the post officeat Sacramento, California, underthe act of August 24, 1912. Accepted for mailing at the spe-cial rate of postage provided forin Section 1103, Act of October 3,1917, auth. August 27, 1918. Indexed in: Library & Informa-tion Science Abstracts, LibraryLiterature. news notesof Californialibraries OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THECALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY , No. 2, Spring, 1972 CONTENTS Page277 Carma Leigh Frank L
. News notes of California libraries . ssued quarterly in the interest ofthe libraries of the State by theCalifornia State Library. Entered as second class matterDecember 1913 at the post officeat Sacramento, California, underthe act of August 24, 1912. Accepted for mailing at the spe-cial rate of postage provided forin Section 1103, Act of October 3,1917, auth. August 27, 1918. Indexed in: Library & Informa-tion Science Abstracts, LibraryLiterature. news notesof Californialibraries OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THECALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY , No. 2, Spring, 1972 CONTENTS Page277 Carma Leigh Frank Leslie Coombs, California State Librarian,1898-1899, Peter Thomas Conmy 278 Santa Clara Public Librarys Computerized Circu-lation System, Donald F. Fuller 283 Tax Structure for California Libraries, J. P. Mc-Brien 287 Information Sources for Career Exploration: TheSecond Symposium, Alfred J. Maupin 296 California State Librarys Annual Program, Li-brary Services and Construction Act 301 printed in California office of state printing. CARMA LEIGH 1 CARMA LEIGH The retirement of Carma Leigh, California State Librarian, on July1, 1972, ends a chapter in a long and distinguished career of service toCalifornia libraries and to the profession at large. Mrs. Leigh (then Carma Russell Zimmerman) was appointed StateLibrarian by Governor Earl Warren on September 12, 1951, and wassubsequently reappointed by Governors Knight, Brown, and library career had begun in 1930 at the Berkeley Public Library;from there she moved to the head librarianships of the WatsonvillePublic Library (1931-35), Orange County Library (1938-42), and SanBernardino County Library (1942-45). From 1945 to 1951, she wasWashington State Librarian. Mrs. Leighs activities have been international in scope. In 1952 sheparticipated in a study of public libraries in West Germany and WestBerlin, and in 1969 she served as Consultant to the State Library ofVictoria, Australia. She toured Russia as a delegate to the Int
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