NEWS NOTES OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES

[Jan., 1949

COUNTY FREE LIBRARIES Statistics of July 1, 1948

County

Librarian

Established

Income* 1947-48

Volumes

tered borrowers

Circula- tion

Branches and ■ sta- tions t

Alameda

Amador

Butte

Calaveras

Colusa

Contra Costa- El Dorado

Fresno

Glenn

Humboldt

Imperial

Inyo

Kern

Kings

Lassen

Los Angeles-_-

Madera

Marin

Mariposa

Merced

Modoc

Mono

Monterey

Napa

Placer

Plumas

Riverside

Sacramento

San Benito

San Bernardino .

San Diego

San Francisco**.

San Joaquin

San Luis Obispo

San Mateo

Santa Barbara. .

Santa Clara

Santa Cruz

Sierra

Siskiyou..

Solano

Sonoma

Stanislaus

Sutter

Tehama

Trinity

Tulare

Tuolumne

Ventura

Yolo..

Totals.

Mrs. Dorothy F. Roberts .

Frances SchachtJ

Mrs. Lucille B. Metzger...

Roxie Hall

Mrs. Ella P. Morse

Jessie A. Lea

Edith Gantt

Mrs. Margaret Van Dussen Mrs. Virginia S. Linwood _

Edna D. Davis

Mrs. Violet M. ThompsonJ

Anne Margrave

Eleanor N. Wilson

Mrs. Harriet S. Davids

Lenala A. Martin

John D. Henderson

Blanche Galloway

Mrs. Virginia V. KeatingJ _

Minette L. Stoddard

Barbara G. Boyd

Anne Margrave

EUenB. Frink

Evalyn Peat

Mrs. Margaret A. Morrison

Mrs. Mae H. Huntley t

Dorothy Dorland

Albert C.Lake

Frederick Wemmer

Mrs. Florence Townsend

Helen Luce

Marjorie H. Kobler

Margaret Klausner

Mrs. Lila D. Adams

Clara B. Dills

Howard M. Rowe

Mrs. Elizabeth Singletary.

Mrs. Geraldine Work

Dorothy Dorland

MurielMitchell

Mrs. Elsie D. HoUand

Frances G. Murphy

Bessie B. Silverthorn

Mrs. Irminna S. Rudge| _.

Mrs. Lillian F. Altman

Mrs. Ruth H. Bettertont .

Edith W. Taylor

Mrs. Helen Dambacher

Elizabeth R. Topping

Esther L. Mardon

Sept. 26 June 2 Sept. 3 Aug. 31 June 8 June 2 Jmie 3 Mar. 12 April 8 May 12, Feb. 6, Sept. 15, Nov. 16 June 4 Sept. 7 Sept. 5 May 3, Aug. 3, Oct. 4, June 6, July 8 Aug. 4 Aug. 6 Feb. 9 Dec. 9 June 2 Sept. 7, Nov. 8, Oct. 1 Feb. 4 July 14 April 5

Mar. 7 July 6 Sept. 5 Feb. 16 July 20, Oct. 13 Aug. 2, June 7, Aprn 1 May 8 Aug. 14 May 9, Aug. 8, Sept. 8, June 10, July 3 April 5. July 12^

1910 1919 1913 1938 1915 1913 1947 1910 1914 1914 1912 1913 1910 1912 1915 1912 1910 1926 1926 1910 1915 1947 1912 1916 1919 1936 1915 1911 1908 1918 1913 1912

1910 1915 1912 1910 1912 1916 1926 1915 1914 1945 1911 1917 1916 1916 1910 1917 1915 1910

$90,637 14,449 27,032 12,169 17,928

156,567 9,000

410,184 16,620 50,737 17,411 20,453

310,963 41,673 23,002

777,721 48,003 40,923 2,318 46,719 14,621 3,614 53,658 25,006 95,939 22,283 32,675 18,756 76,612 10,144

116,322 61,131

75,951

60,719 106,175

21,605

96,973

299,520

4,951

604,346

58,512 175,506

69,641

48,393 380,192 103,800

78,871 646,166 194,909

76,264

3,461

227,291

47,620

1,004

142,309

59,378 162,558

42,562 270,095

197,256 55,526

210,352 84,833

66,170 24,188 73,957 70,186 55,992 15,150

2,500 33,696 35,587 36,730 52,217 25,488 20,271

8,510 77,680

9,684 114,865 37,231

S3,425,372

357,051 92,991 131,084 328,058 271,652

6,384 100,074 107,949 31,304 151,177 76,871 47,137 16,203 222,603 41,332 199,496 142,947

24,535 3,953 9,864 2,181 6,822

32,148 1,189

46,369 6,296

13,807 9,101 5,277

50,456

5,734

8,177

193,538

17,359

12,615 1,157

16,621

12,143 187

16,229 6,957

19,019

6,877

5,188

14,126

6,098

31,547

19,331

6,031,052

17,590 9,762

10,935 6,286

44,718

629 6,349

11,946 3,549

26,758 8,917

11,818 ^946

42,312 3,243 9,380 2,955

792,994

273,400

46,028 123,330

35,882

81,771 473,610

14,858 883,920

51,741 298,929

56,012

65,051

1,100,833

174,701

94,190

3,185,135

247,784

181,014

25,238 272,349

51,551

2,231

139,514

113,651

335,666

74,285

98,757 140,318 223,853

12,677 444,620 457,683

273,911 137,138 207,656 202,884 437,898

14,212 174,550 199,925

54,376 276,570 106,369

74,303

16,772 449,415

31,891 316,935

84,307

12,839,694

42 33 71 34 24 91 6

184 38

137 54 27

162 44 45

148

60 40 12 85 52 61 41 46 58 78 46

138 57

92 64 51 79 87 33 15 81 42 87 63 30 50 38

120 40

101 53

3,157

* Exclusive of balance iii fund at beginning of fiscal year, t Including central library. ** San Francisco city and county being coterminous, the city library covers the entire county. For statistics see under "Larger Municipal and District Libraries" on next page. t Acting librarian in charge.

1 Exclusive of borrowers in school agencies.

2 Includes book stock of Sierra County Free Library. 2 School collection only.

* Borrowers from central library only. s Same as for Riverside Public Library. 8 Same as for Santa Cruz Public Library.

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LARGER MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES

LARGER MUNICIPAL AND DISTRICT LIBRARIES

(25,000 volumes and over) Statistics of July 1, 1948

City

Alameda

Alhambra

Anaheim

Arcadia

Berkeley

Beverly Hills.

Burbank

Burlingame _ . Carmel

Corona

Coronado

ElCentro

Eureka

Fullerton

Glendale

Hanford

Huntington Beach

Lodi

Long Beach

Los Angeles

Marysville

Monterey

Napa

National City

Oakland

Ontario

Oxnard

Pacific Grove. Palo Alto

Petaluma

Pomona

Redlands

Redondo Beach _ Redwood City...

Richmond

Riverside

Sacramento

San Bernardino. -

San Diego

San Francisco

San Jose

San Leandro

San Marino

San Mateo

Santa Ana

Santa Barbara.. .

Santa Cruz

Santa Monica...

Santa Paula

Santa Rosa

South Pasadena . South San

Francisco

Stockton

Upland

Vallejo

Watsonville

Whittier

Totals.

Librarian

Theodora T. Larsen

George F. Farrier

J. Elizabeth Calnon

Mrs. Louise M. DuMond _

Helen A. Kearney

Mrs. Mary Boynton Terry

Mrs. Elizabeth Ripley

Irene E. Smith

Elizabeth M. Niles

Frederick F. McLean

Mrs. Helen Wilkins

Gabrielle Morton

Mrs. Agnes F. Bigelow

Mrs. Helen B. Murie

Carrie Sheppard

Mrs. Tempie S. Robinson .

Mrs. Lylyan Mossinger

Amy L. Boynton

Mrs. Theodora R. Brewitt

Harold L. Hamiil

TheimaG. NeaviUe

Delbert R. Jeffers

Mrs. Ella M. Piraentel

Mrs. Ellen Baeder

Dr. Peter T. Conmy

Alberta Schaefer

Ethel Helliwell

Emilie Ritchen

Mrs. Josephine Van Deren

Mrs. Grace Helliwell

Doris Hoit

Edna Bovett

Bill J. CaldweU

Mabel Inness

Mrs. Miriam N. Burney _.

Wilhelmina Harper

Coit Coolidge

Albert C. Lake

Mrs. Grace T. Dean

Mary B. Kellogg

Clara Breed

Laurence J. Clarke

Mrs. Geraldine L. Nurney.

Marie E. Tinsley

Mrs. Louise Blinkhern

Mrs. Kathleen B. Larson..

Ethel Walker

Howard M. Rowe

Mrs. Geraldine G. Work ..

Katherine M. Whelan

Mrs. Gladys B. Kennedy..

RuthHaU

Mrs. Mary E. Murdoch...

Lauretta Hussar

Margaret Klausner

Mrs. RuthN. West

Agnes Walsh

Mrs. Elizabeth B. Collins Ruth Ellis

Established*

1877;F.P. 1879

1906

1901 1913 ;F.P. 1919 1893;F.P. 1895 1914;F.P. 1929 1913 ;F.P. 1926

1909

1927

1912 1893;F.P. 1899 1889;F.P. 1895 1907;F.P. 1909

1878 1906;F.P. 1907 1906;F.P. 1907 1890;F.P. 1900

1909 1904;F.P. 1907 1895;F.P. 1901 1872;F.P. 1878 1855;F.P. 1858 1901 ;F.P. 1906 1870;F.P. 1885 1895;F.P. 1896 1868;F.P. 1878 1885;F.P. 1902 1885;F.P. 1894

1906

1905 1894;F.P. 1902 1882;F.P. 1890 1867;F.P. 1878 1867 ;F.P. 1902 1893;F.P. 1894 1895 ;F.P. 1908 1889 ;F.P. 1900 1907 ;F.P. 1909 1879;F.P. 1888 1857;F.P. 1879

1891 1880;F.P. 1882

1878 1874;F.P. 1880

1905

1932 1884;F.P. 1899

1891

1882 1868;F.P. 1881 1886;F.P. 1890

1907 1869;F.P. 1884 1889;F.P. 1895

1914

1880 1909;F.P. 1913 1883;F.P. 1884

1896

1900

Popula- tion (1940

census)

36,256

38,935

11,031

9,122

85,547

26,823

34,337

15,940

2,837

5,026

8,764

6,932

10,017

17,055

10,442

82,582

8,234

3,738

11,079

164,271

1,504,277

6,646

10,084

7,740

10,344

302,163

14,197

7,901

8,519

6,249

16,774

81,864

8,034

23,539

14,324

13,092

12,453

23,642

34,696

105,958

43,646

203,341

634,536

68,457

14,601

8,175

19,403

31,921

34,958

16,896

53,500

8,986

12,605

14,356

6,629 54,714

6,316 20,072

8,937 16,115

Week- ly

hours of

74^

75M

75H

81 J4

Income t 1947- 1948

855,434 75,958 29,564 29,234

143,373 42,801 74,127 37,130 16,477 11,364 11,385 18,033 24,247 19,193 41,177

200,142 17,959 18,054 28,170

381,811

1,993,619

13,633

33,261

116,045 22,040 2615,649 28,643 26,396 22,612 15,939 71,089

287,915 13,510 57,626 47,732 X 43,378 93,928

472,782

160,197 72,823

379,912

853,268 379,005 31,430 38,319 54,234 69,396

124,460

"32,881

132,266 19,663 24,679 35,033

16,130 "157,197 18,156 43,787 13,005 38,578

$7,145,849

Volumes

103,963 71,076 32,931 25,082

199,029 62,867 45,543 94,358 26,387 32,980 26,605 25,561 43,067 31,009 43,493

136,055 31,403 29,695 32,681

234,533 1,879,915 28,083 43,402 35,312 27,649

360,873 42,758 35,226 44,600 28,566 92,843

230,597 30,064 87,334 86,209

39,984

93,841

"268,491

281,211

68,101

2.57,761

587,078

88,604

29,116

28,131

64,661

81,012

5151,752

"93,173

122,164

31,218

39,478

43,337

25,586 5261,057 30,462 74,519 31,822 60,494

7,234,802

Regis- tered borrow-

19,301

18,817

6,902

9,806

48,226

12,437

14,371

11,823

3,950

3,098

3,368

9,340

10,459

10,501

6,718

32,585

4,694

1,979

8,589

79,799

426,390

3,444

4,608

6,807

10,974

97,183

10,921

4,651

9,529

3,396

11,603

55,895

4,797

10,631

45,111

"17,435

38,500

24,170

85,257

149,662

23,568

16,192

4,901

11,233

16,523

23,078

"15,697

44,510

7,526

9,295

8,038

3,165 12,834

5,430 10,008

2,967 11,858

1,573,616

* First establishment is given, followed in some instances by date of change to free public (F. P. ) library, t Excludes balance in fund at beginning of fiscal-year.

** Includes books, pamphlets and periodicals, except those on deposit through affiliation with a county library. t Figures not available. ^ Calendar year 1947 was fiscal year.

2 Expenditures for the art gallery and museums are drawn from this income. 2 Report year began December 1, 1946, and ended November 30, 1947.

* Includes statistics for the county library also.

^ Exclusive of school collection in county library, s Calendar year 1948 was fiscal year.

NEWS NOTES OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES

[Jan., 1949

DISTRIBUTION OF MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES

BY CITY POPULATION (1940 CENSUS)

(Affiliated With County Library*)

1 to 1,000	1,001 to 5,000	5,001 to 10,000	10,001 to 20,000	20,001 to 50,000	50,001 to 100,000	Over 100.000
Belevedere	Areata*	Arcadia	Anaheim	Alameda	Berkeley	Long Beach
Biggs*	Auburn	Azusa	Brawley	Alhambra	Glendale	Los Angeles
Etna*	Benicia*	Calexico*	Burlingame	Beverly Hills	Pasadena	Oakland
Ferndale*	Blythe*	Chico	El Centro	Burbank	San Jose	Sacramento
San Juan	Calistoga	Chula Vista	Eureka	Pomona	Santa Monica	San Diego
Bautista*	Carmel*	Colton*	Fullerton	Richmond	Stockton*	San Francisco
Vemon	(Harrison)	Corona*	Lodi*	Riverside*
	Colusa	Coronado	Modesto*	San Bernardino
	Coming	Daly City*	(McHenry)	Santa Ana
	Covina	Grass Valley	Monrovia	Santa Barbara*
	Crescent City	Hanford	Monterey	Vallejo
	El Segundo	Hayward*	National City
	Elsinore*	Marysville	Ontario
	Emeryville*	Monterey Park*	Palo Alto
	Escondido	(Bruggemeyer)	Redlands
	Fort Bragg	Napa	(A. K. Smiley)
	Gilroy*	(Goodman)	Redondo Beach
	Glendora	Orange	Redwood City
	Gridley*	Oxnard Pacific Grove	Salinas* San Leandro*
	Healdsburg
	Hemet*	Petaluma	San Mateo
	Hollister*	Porterville*	Santa Cruz*
	Huntington	Redding	Santa Rosa
	Beach	Roseville	South Pasadena
	Imperial*	San Anselmo	Ventura*
	Indio*	San Bruno*	Whittier
	King City*	San Luis Obispo
	Lakeport	San Marino
	Larkspur	San Rafael
	Lincoln	Santa Clara
	Livermore*	Santa Maria*
-	Lompoc*	Santa Paula (Blanchard)
	Los Gatos
	Mill VaUey	South San
	Mountain	Francisco*
	View*	Torrance*
	Nevada City	Tulare*
	Newport Beach	Upland
	Oceanside	Visalia* Watsonville
	Orland*
	Oroville*	Woodland
	Pahn Springs*
	Paso Robles
	Ferris*
	Red Bluff
	Saint Helena
	San Jacinto*
	Sausalito
	Sebastopol
	Sierra Madre
	Signal Hill
	Sonoma*
	Sonora*
	Sunnyvale
	Turlock*
	Ukiah
	Willits
	Willows*
	Yreka*

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CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES— ANNUAL STATISTICS

Annual report blanks were sent in June, 1948, to all California libra- ries except elementary public school and church libraries, and those which belong to private individuals and are not open to the public. Except when otherwise noted, statistics from the public library annual reports cover the period from July 1, 1947, to June 30, 1948. The school year 1947-48 is used as the time basis for school library reports. All reports are arranged under city and county by name of library, and counties are arranged alphabetically. To determine the county in which any place is located see the place index, page 8, which includes locations of branch and station libraries that are listed elsewhere only under the main library. For arrangements of libraries by subject or type refer to the annual Index Supplement to News Notes of California Lil)raries.

The Public Library Statistical Report, a standard form for gather- ing statistics on city, county and district libraries throughout the United States, was used as a basis for the mimeographed forms we distribute. Special forms on postal cards are used for annual reports from all other types of libraries.

Problems in regard to the collecting of library statistics center chiefly on three objects : currency of news, accuracy of information, and uniformity in methods of calculating totals. For accomplishment of these objects, directories, professional journals and printed items about Cali- fornia libraries (as gathered by a newspaper clipping agency) are checked constantly for facts in addition to those reported directly to the State Library each year by librarians. Chief librarians listed under names of libraries are those most recently reported in office up to the time of publishing these statistics.

In order that libraries will compile the totals they report in a uni- form manner, the following requirements and definitions have been applied :

The assessed valuation as given for each county does not include the value of intangible property, a third of the tax on which goes to the county. Figures are based on the annual statement, "Value of Property in and Indebtedness of Each County," California State Controller's Office.

Population statistics are given for counties and for all towns having munic- ipal libraries. Federal government popu- lation figures as of April 1, 1940, have been used, with revised population figures from special census reports indicated in footnotes.

County law libi-aries are all supported by income received from the $1.00 fee for filing papers in civil suits, so this inform- ation is not stated with statistics for each of them.

For the purpose of this publication, a municipal or city free library is one which has been legally established by city offi- cials, is supported by income from taxa- tion or other public funds, and has its

own trustees or other civil governing body.

An agency is any place, such as a cen- tral library, branch, station, or book automobile station, that, as an integral part of the public library system, distrib- utes books or otherwise renders library service to the public.

The total number of distributing agen- cies of a public library includes the cen- tral library as well as its branches and stations. To avoid duplication in count, then, the central office of a county library is neither counted nor listed as a separate community branch or station, regardless of the type of service it gives to the com- munity in which it is located.

A branch is an auxiliary library with separate quarters, a permanent basic col- lection of books, a permanent staff, and a regular schedule. It must meet all of these requirements.

A station is a place from which books ai"e distributed, but at which there is no permanent collection or library staff.

NEWS NOTES OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES

[Jan., 1949

A school which is served by a public library and has not a central library room meeting the conditions of a branch is a school station. It is counted just as one agency even though the books may be divided into a number of class-room col- lections.

While the federal report blank has centered interest on housing of agencies, this State Library is interested in type of service given in agencies (e.g. school and community). For our purpose a branch housed in a school but giving service entirely to the community is something very different from a school agency aiSli- ated for school service. The first is counted as a community agency, the sec- ond as a school agency.

A school branch or station which gives some community service is designated by (c) following the name of such distribut- ing agency of the county library. A com- munity branch or station which is merely located in a school building and not con- nected otherwise with the school library service is listed only as a community agency.

Municipal, district and high school li- traries which have affiliated with a county library for service are counted in total number of distributing agencies of that county library although listed sepa- rately from both its branches and sta- tions.

Branch library statistics are omitted under the names of various branches. They are included, however, in the gen- eral figures given under the central li- brary. For this reason, circulation and other statistics for their own books only and not for county service are shown, as a rule, by high school, municipal and other libraries which are afl[iliated with a county free library.

Total circulation is the count of books, pamphlets and periodicals lent for home use, from the central library or any agency, and the count of each renewal. A county or city library includes in its total ■circulation the count of supplementary books lent from schools for home use, but not those used in class rooms only. A county library also includes the circula- tin of county library books from all its agencies (including affiliated libraries, which should not include such count in their own annual report totals).

Circulation should not be estimated, but statistics should be kept of actual count according to an established system. Municipal libraries serving schools as regular stations of the central library will report the count of home use (loans for overnight or longer from the school or

class room collections) . "When loans are made in the name of a teacher of a school just as an individual borrower (rather than for a station) the count would, of course, be one for each book lent and one for each renewal recorded.

Inter-library loans between libraries which are an integral part of the same system (branches, stations and affiliated libraries) are not counted in total circu- lation, but rather in shipments from a central library. The circulation from such agencies is counted as noted above. State Library books borrowed are included in count of inter-library loans and also in circulation of the borrowing library.

A shipment from the central library is the lot of items sent to one agency at one time. One shipment might be two pack- ages or a dozen, and is really a count of the times books and other material have been sent to branches and stations. The total items shipped would be a count of the individual books or articles in the packages sent.

We consider a special request to be a request emanating from an individual borrower, for the central library to sup- ply, through its branch or station, a spe- cific book or material on one subject. In this regard community service only is considered, because practically all school requests seem to be special requests. A request from a custodian or borrower for "more detective stories" would not count as a special request. The count is to be made of actual number of requests re- ceived at the central library, because all the requests forwarded are worked over by the headquarters staff even if they can not all be filled. (Items sent to agencies in response to requests are counted under shipments.)

Janitors and building force, as well as untrained assistants in charge of com- munity branches and stations (of whom some are unpaid), are included in the total count of employees.

Affiliated libraries:

Free public libraries in 54 towns or districts are affiliated with county free libraries, as follows :

Under Sec. 3 of the 1911 county library law, 25 : Alameda Co. — Emeryville, Hayward, Livermore, San Leandro ; Butte Co. — Big-gs, Gridley, Orovllle ; Glenn Co. — Or- land, Willows ; Humboldt Co. — Areata, Ferndale ; Imperial Co. — Calexico, Imperial ; Monterey Co. — Carmel, King City, Salinas ; San Bernardino Co. — Colton ; San Mateo Co. — Daly City, San Bruno, South San Francisco ; Stanislaus Co. — Modesto ; Tulare Co. — For-

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terville, Tulare, Visalia ; Ventura Co. — Ventura.

Under Sec. 4 of the 1911 county library law, 6 : Los Angeles Co. — Altadena, Monterey Park, Tor- rance ; Santa Clara Co. — Gilroy, Mountain View ; Stanislaus Co. — Turlock.

Under Sec. 16 of the 1911 county library law, 13 : Riverside Co. — Banning-, Beaumont, Blythe, Co- rona, Elsinore, Hemet, Indio, Palm Springs, Perris, San Jacinto ; San Joaquin Co. — Lodi ; Santa Barbara Co. — Lompoc, Santa Maria.

Under Sec. 4041.18 of the polit- ical code, 9 : Colusa Co. — Colusa ; San Benito Co. — Hollister, San Juan Bautista ; Siskiyou Co. — ■ Etna, Yreka ; Solano Co. — Benicia. Dixon, Vacaville ; Tuolumne Co. — Sonora.

Under Sec. 22108 of the educa- tion code, 1 : Sonoma Co. — Sonoma.

Library buildings:

There are about 412 publicly owned library buildings, of which 188 were gifts. Of these gifts, 134 include Andrew Car- negie grants for "Carnegie" library buildings.

Libraries under civil service jurisdic- tion:

Municipal libraries in the cities of Alameda, Beverly Hills, Bur- bank, Burlingame, Daly City, Etna, Glendale, Hay ward,* Lodi, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Los Gatos, Marysville,* National City, Oak- land, Redondo Beach, Redwood City,* Roseville, Sacramento,** San Bernardino, San Bruno, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, San Rafael, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, South San Francisco, Stockton, Upland, Vallejo, Ventura.

County libraries in the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Sacramento, t San Bernardino, San Diego, San .Joaquin, San Mateo, t Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Ventura.

Public libraries included in a retire- ment system :

Municipal libraries in the cities of Alameda, Alhambra, Arcadia, Berkeley, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Burlingame, Calexico, Colton, Daly City, El Segundo, Fullerton, Glen- dale, Gridley, Huntington Beach, Los Angeles, National City, New- port Beach, Oakland, Ontario, Palo Alto, Pasadena, Pomona, Redlands, Redwood City, Richmond, River- side, Roseville, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Bruno, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Leandro, San Mateo, Santa Ana,

* Except Librarian. ** All non-professional employees ex- cept pages.

t Headquarters staff only.

Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Monica, Signal Hill, South Pasa- dena, South San Francisco, Stock- ton, Upland, Vallejo, Ventura, Whittier, Woodland.

County libraries in the counties of Alameda, Amador, Butte, Contra Costa, Fresno, Humboldt, Inyo, Kern, Lassen, Los Angeles, Ma- dera, Monterey, Orange, Plumas, Riverside, Sacramento,! San Be- nito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Joaquin, San Mateo, t Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Solano, So- noma, Tulare, Ventura.

Libraries by type:

i;-515 California libraries (with a total of 3527 branches and deposit stations) are listed for the year 1947-48, as fol- lows :

1 state library

51 county free libraries

7 library district libraries (Altadena, Beaumont, Buena Park, Palos Verdes, Placentia, Upper Lake, Torba Linda)

4 union high school district libraries (Banning, Coalinga, Dixon, Vacaville)

146 municipal libraries

71 law libraries (of which 58 are county law libraries)

87 teachers' professional and central- ized school libraries (of which 58 are county teachers' libraries)

676 libraries in educational institutions (of which 8 are universities, 9 State col- leges, 570 public high schools and junior colleges, 17 other colleges, 72 private or special schools and other educational in- stitutions)

269 miscellaneous institution, associa- tion, business and military libraries (the army and navy libraries numbering 53)

2 private libraries which are open to the public (Huntington at San Marino and Perret at Los Angeles)

Income, circulation, etc.:

Statistics compiled from public library reports as of June 30, 1948, show the fol- lowing totals. For all California public libraries (51 county free libi-aries, 1 state library, 11 district libraries and 146 mu- nicipal libraries) the book collections totaled about 14,835,788 volumes. The circulation of books, pamphlets and pei-i- odicals from these 209 public libraries was reported as 42,650,014. There were 2,602,796 registered borrowers in these libraries. The annual income from taxa- tion and other sources totaled about $11,496,444. Expenditures for salaries amounted to $5,188,909 in the city and district libraries, $1,889,179 in the coun- ty libraries and .$233,404 in the State Li- brary. Payments for books and periodi- cals totaled .$1,032,287 in the city and district libraries, $649,875 in the county libraries and $24,445 in the State Li- brary.

NEWS NOTES OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES [Jan., 1949

Place Index

As the libraries are listed under counties, the following alphabetical list by place, giving county, is printed. List includes places mentioned under County Free Libraries as having branches or stations :

Acacia School District, Imperial Co.

Ackermau School District, Placer Co.

Acton, Los Angeles Co.

Adams School District, Santa Clara Co.

Adelanto, San Bernardino Co.

Adin, Modoc Co.

Aetna School District, Amador Co.

Aetna Springs, Napa Co.

Agnew, Santa Clara Co.

Ahwanhnee, Madera Co.

Air Point School District, Santa Clara

Co. Alamar, Santa Barbara Co. Alameda, Alameda Co. and Los Angeles

Co. Alameda School District, Fresno Co. Alamitos School District, Imperial Co.

and Orange Co. Alamo, Contra Costa Co., Imperial Co. Alamo School District, Madera Co. Alamos School District, Riverside Co. Alba, Santa Cruz Co. Albany, Alameda Co. Alberhill School District, Riverside Co. Alderpoint, Humboldt Co. Alexander School District, Sonoma Co. ' Algerine School District, Tuolumne Co. Alhambra, Los Angeles Co. Alisal, Monterey Co.

Aliso School District, Santa Barbara Co. Alleghany, Sierra Co. Allendale School District, Solano Co. AUensworth, Tulare Co. Alma, Santa Clara Co. Almaden, Santa Clara Co. Almanor, Plumas Co. Alondra, Los Angeles Co. Alpaugh, Tulare Co. Alpha School District, Madera Co. and

Placer Co. Alpine, San Diego Co. Alpine School District, Modoc Co., San

Joaquin Co., San Mateo Co. Alta Loma, San Bernardino Co. Alta Mesa, Sacramento Co. Alta School District, Fresno Co. and

Placer Co. Alta Vista School District, Placer Co.

and Tulare Co. Altadena, Los Angeles Co. Altamont, Alameda Co. Altaville School District, Calaveras Co. Alton, Humboldt Co. Alturas, Modoc Co. Alum Rock, Santa Clara Co. Alvarado, Alameda Co. Alvina School District, Fresno Co. Alviso, Alameda Co. and Santa Clara Co.

Alvord School District, Riverside Co.

Amador City, Amador Co.

Amboy, San Bernardino Co.

Ambrose, Contra Costa Co.

Amedee School District, Lassen Co.

American Basin School District, Sacra- mento Co.

American Canyon School District, Napa Co.

American Colony School District, Fresno Co.

American Valley School District, Sonoma Co.

Americanization, Monterey Co.

Amstei-dam, Merced Co.

Anaheim, Orange Co.

Anderson, Shasta Co.

Andrade, Imperial Co.

Angels Camp, Calaveras Co.

Angiola School District, Tulare Co.

Angwin, Napa Co.

Annette, Kern Co.

Antelope, Sacramento Co.

Antelope School District, Colusa Co., Mono Co., Riverside Co., Tehama Co.

Antioch, Contra Costa Co.

Antioch-Live Oak School District, Cbntra Costa Co.

Apache, Ventura Co.

Apache Camp, Kern Co.

Apple Valley School District, San Ber- nardino Co. xipplegate. Placer Co. Applegate School District, Merced Co. Aptos, Santa Cruz Co. Aqueduct School District, Kern Co. Arastraville School District, Tuolumne

Co. Arbuckle, Colusa Co. Arcade, Sacramento Co. Arcadia, Los Angeles Co. Arcadia School District, Sonoma Co. Areata, Humboldt Co. Areola School District. Madera Co. Arden, Sacramento Co. Arena School District, Merced Co. Arlight, Santa Barbara Co. Arlington, Riverside Co. Arlington School District, Modoc Co. Armona, Kings Co.

Arno School District, Sacramento Co. Aromas, Monterey Co. and San Benito

Co. Aromitas, San Benito Co. Arroyo, Alameda Co. Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo Co. Arroyo Seco School District, Monterey Co.