Newsletters · March 1982

March newsletter with completed membership response

Announces sale, exhausted library book budget, growing use and access/censorship policy; includes handwritten member response and reverse.

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Transcribed from the scans and checked against them by Claude. Typed text comes first; handwritten notes follow it. [illegible] marks words that cannot be read and [?] an uncertain reading.

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MARCH 1982 HERMOSA BEACH FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MARCH 1982 TO OPEN A BOOK BRINGS PROFIT....Chinese proverb BOOK SALE BARGAIN DAY - For the lowest prices in town. Friends of the Library spring book sale is set for Saturday, March 27, starting at 10 a.m. at the usual locale, in front of the library. Despite soaring prices on everything else HB FoL will hold the line. Prices again will be set at 50¢ for hardbacks, 25¢ for paperbacks, higher prices for a selected few. Book donations are welcome. Bring your unwanted volumes to the library book barrel by March 25. Volunteer sorters will be welcome to an afternoon work party on Friday March 26, according to sale chairman Jack Belasco. President Joan Greenwald is on the mend. She missed the FoL annual election, due to a case of pneumonia. The news from librarian Louise Mazerov is that as a result of inflation, inaccurate estimates and budget adjustments, her book budget is now exhausted. She has no money for ordering new books until the end of the current fiscal year. The contributions of FoL are especially welcome. Meanwhile, library usage is constantly increasing. February circulation was 700 higher than the same period in 1981. Reference uses alone totalled 8000. Ms. Mazerov attributes this to a big surge in student use of reference material (heavier homework load). A recent wave of attempted censorship across the nation has had but little ripple here. Louise points out that the library staff is not responsible for children's choice of books. If a parent wishes to restrict a child's access to library material, he may do so only by written instructions to the library to that effect. For further details, consult staff. See also PEOPLE'S LIBRARY BILL OF RIGHTS (too long to reproduce here). The Los Angeles County Library system.....“affirms the public right of access to a broad spectrum of reading, listening and viewing materials in the library as one of the basic rights of free democracy. In compliance with the policy of free access it is the library's objective to make available sound factual data and honest expression of opinion on topics of public interest and importance...” Local impact: the TV showing of NOSTRADUMUS inspired a sudden demand for materials on this medieval seer; the TV BRIDESHEAD REVISITED caused many requests for works of Evelyn Waugh. At the recent Antiquarian Book Fair in Los Angeles, prices ran the gamut from small dollars to $27,000 (an ancient Hebraic tome). THE LONDON ART OF COOKERY AND HOUSEKEEPERS COMPLETE ASSISTANT ON A NEW PLAN third edition, 1785, was offered by Peter Eaton, London bookseller, for a mere 120 English pounds. Among children's selections, Robert Louis Stevenson's A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES, 1941 edition by Merrill Publishers of Chicago, was offered for $20. Check your library. You may have that treasure on your own shelf. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. PLEASE RENEW MEMBERSHIP. NAME Deborah Barrington Wilds ADDRESS 651 - 30th St. Hermosa Beach CA. 90254 AMOUNT ($2.00 per year) enclosed

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Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library 550 Pier Ave. Hermosa Beach, Calif. 90254

Handwritten notes

• (name line) Deborah Barrington Wilds • (address line) 651 - 30th St. Hermosa Beach, CA. 90254 (a crossed-out number precedes "CA.") • (amount line) enclosed

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MARCH
1982 HERMOSA BEACH FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MARCH
1982
TO OPEN A BOOK BRINGS PROFIT.... Chinese proverb
BOOK SALE BARGAIN Sa- For the lowest prices in town. at the usual locale, in front of the library.
Friends of the Library spring book sale 15 set for Saturday, March 27, starting at 10 a.m.
Despitesoaring prices on everything else HB FoL will hold the line.
again will be set at 50¢ for hardbacks, 25c for paperbacks, hiaher prices Prices
for a selected few.
Book donations are welcome.
book barrel by March 25. Bring your unwanted volumes to the library
Volunteer sorters will be welcome to an after-
noon work party on Friday March 26, according to sale chairman Jack Belasco.
President Joan Greenwald is on the mend. She missed the Fol annual election, due to a case of pneumonia.
The news from librarian Louise Mazerov is that as a result of inflation,
inaccurate estimates and budget adjustments, her book budget is now exhausted.
She has no money for ordering new books until the end of the current fiscal
year. The contributions of FoL are especially welcome.
Meanwhile, library usage is constantly increasing. February circulation was
700 higher than the same period in 1981. Reference uses alone totalled
8000. Ms. Mazerov attributes this to abig surge in student use of reference
material (heavier homework load).
A recent wave of attempted censorship across the nation has had but little
ripple here. Louise points out that the library staff is not responsible
for children's choice of books. If a parent wishes to restrict a child's
access to library material, he may do so only by written instructions to
the library to that effect. For further details, consult staff.
See also PEOPLE'S LIBRARY BILL OF RIGHTS (too long to reproduce here).
The Los Angeles County Library system..... "affirms the public right of
access to a broad spectrum of reading, listening and viewing materials
in the library as one of the basic rights of free democracy. In compliance with the policy of free access it is the library's objective to make
available sound factual data and honest expression of opinion on topics of public interest and importance..."
Local impact: the TV showing of NOSTRADUMUS inspired a sudden demand for
materials on this medieval seer; the TV BRIDESHEAD REVISITED caused many requests for works of Evelyn Waugh.
At the recent Antiquarian Book Fair in Los Angeles, prices ran the gamut
from small dollars to $27,000 (an ancient Hebraic tome). THE LONDON ART
OF COOKERY AND HOUSEKEEPERS COMPLETE ASSISTANT ON A NEW PLAN third edition,
1785, was offered by Peter Eaton, London bookseller, for a mere 120 English pounds. Among children's selections, Robert Louis Stevenson's A CHILD'S
GARDEN OF VERSES, 1941 edition by Merrill Publishers of Chicago, was offered for $20. Check your library.You may have that treasure on your
own shelf.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. PLEASE RENEW MEMBERSHIP.
NAME Deborah Barrington Wilds ADDRESS 651 - 30 dust. Hermosa Beach
AMOUNT ($2.00 per year) enclosed CA.G
90254

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Hermosa Beach, Calif. 90254
550 Pier Ave.
Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library