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Letters and email · December 1994Estimated date

Hermosa must choose to fund its own library

Tim Ferguson and Charlotte Malone argue for planning toward local independence while library hours recover. Their letter refers to a December 10 sale and money being accumulated for a possible new library.

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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.

Hermosa must choose to fund its own library Although we may rejoice in the provisional reopening of the county library branch in Hermosa Beach to five-days-a-week service, Los Angeles County can no more be depended on to sustain this operation than was the case 16 months ago. It runs a high-cost library system while suffering from ever-escalating demands on its tax revenue. Hermosa Beach should continue to prepare for the day when it must choose between an independent library or little or no library service in town. In that spirit, the Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library, while celebrating the short-run reprieve, has been re-examining its gift-giving policy. Rather than providing materials which will circulate throughout the county library system, we have, since September 1993, concentrated on gifts which will remain in and benefit our library: newspaper and magazine subscriptions, children's programs and reference items. The money raised by our quarterly book sales, such as the one coming up Saturday, and the community's support of our organization, have enabled us to be very generous to the library. Looking ahead, we are steadily accumulating funds to be available as a "starter" for a new library. In that event, we will need even more backing from city residents and businesses. — TIME FERGUSON and CHARLOTTE MALONE Friends of the Library Hermosa Beach

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Hermosa must choose
to fund its own library
Although we may rejoice in the
provisional reopening of the
county library branch in Hermosa
Beach to five-days-a-week
service, Los Angeles County can
no more be depended on to
sustain this operation than was
the case 16 months ago.
It runs a high-cost library
system while suffering from
ever-escalating demands on its
tax revenue.
Hermosa Beach should
continue to prepare for the day
when it must choose between an
independent library or little or no
library service in town.
In that spirit, the Hermosa
Beach Friends of the Library,
while celebrating the short-run
reprieve, has been re-examining its gift-giving policy.
Rather than providing
materials which will circulate
throughout the county library
system, we have, since September
1993, concentrated on gifts which
will remain in and benefit our
library: newspaper and magazine
subscriptions, children's
programs and reference items.
The money raised by our
quarterly book sales, such as the
one coming up Saturday, and the
community's support of our
organization, have enabled us to
be very generous to the library.
Looking ahead, we are steadily
accumulating funds to be
available as a "starter" for a new
library.
In that event, we will need
even more backing from city
residents and businesses.
- TIME FERGUSON
and CHARLOTTE MALONE
Friends of the Library
Hermosa Beach i