. News notes of California libraries . nty andwithout the use of federal assistance. These programs are the result ofjudicious use of staff, time, collections and budgeting by current CountyLibrarian Lois Magee, and by several County Librarians before her,including Eleanor Wilson, Gretchen Knief Schenk and John Hender-son. More could be done, of course, as always, if more money were avail-able to hire more staff, to buy more books, to increase service. But theimportant thing to the Kern County Library System is that SOME-THING CAN BE DONE, and done adequately, to provide service tothese instit
. News notes of California libraries . nty andwithout the use of federal assistance. These programs are the result ofjudicious use of staff, time, collections and budgeting by current CountyLibrarian Lois Magee, and by several County Librarians before her,including Eleanor Wilson, Gretchen Knief Schenk and John Hender-son. More could be done, of course, as always, if more money were avail-able to hire more staff, to buy more books, to increase service. But theimportant thing to the Kern County Library System is that SOME-THING CAN BE DONE, and done adequately, to provide service tothese institutions through the careful use of a librarys current re-sources. Kern County knows . . because were doing it. i ? ; : 4 ;? ? - 111 [ - - 1-1j J* -- ; —»* »f^ | Kern County Library delivery man Robert Townsend and Deputy Gerald Mitchell look over a ship-ment of books to the Kern County Jail. Requests from the Jail range from light fiction to poetryto technical and scientific materials. 330 NEWS NOTES OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES. Libros en espanol! Miguel Salazar helps Monterey County children make their choices. VOLUME 67, NO. 3, SUMMER, 1972 331 Added Library Services for the Spanish-Speaking inMonterey County Miguel Escalante Salazar, II The day was bright and sunny as the branch library supervisor andthe childrens librarian and myself drove down the Salinas Valley to thelittle town of Chualar, California. I was about to see my first branchlibrary and meet its librarian. The welcome was a warm one, as was theday. We were chatting about the aims of the consultant position tospeakers of Spanish, when all of a sudden, the small library which I mustsay consists of a small room adjoining the local fire truck station, becameengulfed with about 50 young people. We had company from the near-by schools fourth and fifth grades. They all wanted books and morebooks and so they met head-on with four librarians. I was spotted almostimmediately and put to work. The children did not hesitate
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