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Book Title: History Of San Mateo County California

SAN MATEO COUNTY FREE LIBRARY

   One of the most beneficial and useful public institutions in San Mateo county
is the county free library, the business headquarters of which are in the
courthouse at Redwood City, and which is under the able supervision of Miss Edna
Holroyd, librarian. The library, which started operations in 1915, is supported
by a county tax, the board of supervisors being empowered by law to include the
support of a county free library in the tax levy, the money being spent for
books, transportation, branch expenses, supplies and maintenance at headquarters.

   The library now serves twenty-nine schools and twenty branches. In small
communities the branches are usually found in a store or post office, while in
larger communities reading rooms are maintained and supplied with books,
magazines and newspapers. The library is a particular benefit to the schools,
which receive a service impossible to get from their own shelves, for no school
can afford to own all the books for reference and research work that a teacher
may desire for the pupils. Through the library and its branches books on all
subjects are available to any resident of the county. If a book is desired that
is not in a branch collection, it is sent from the county free library
headquarters; or, if not found there, it is supplied from the state library, all
shipments being free to the borrower. The San Mateo County Free Library has
about thirty-eight thousand volumes for general reading, and a very large school
collection of supplementary textbooks, maps, charts, globes, victrola records
and pictures. It has about six thousand, five hundred cardholders and an annual
circulation of about seventy-four thousand volumes. The books are circulated to
the remote corners of the county and have also been sent to the lighthouse off
the coast.

   Miss Edna Holroyd, who is so capably filling the position of librarian of the
San Mateo County Free Library, was born in San Francisco, California, and
secured her elementary education in the public schools of Berkeley. Later she
took a course in library science at the State Library School and possesses a
certificate from the state board of librarians. Her first position was as
assistant county librarian of Monterey county, after which she was county
librarian of Tuolumne county, and in December, 1921, she came to Redwood City
and has since occupied her present position. She has proven the right person for
the place, her previous training and her qualities of character well fitting her
for the work. Courteous and accommodating, and with a comprehensive grasp of the
splendid opportunities for service which she is able to render, she has earned
high commendation, and has won many warm friends since coming to this city.


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HISTORY
OF
SAN MATEO
COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO, ILL. 
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1928


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