Publicity and newsletters

Helen Tracy's October 30, 1959 newsletter described the membership drive and early plans, and by November 1960 the mailing went out as the Newsette. In the 1970s the newsletter announced membership weeks, Libations benefits and book sales, and in March 1979 it took up Proposition 13, Senate Bill 31 and the risks to library service. Newspapers including the Daily Breeze announced the Friends' sales, and Patricia Gazin's June 10, 1986 press release explained how quarterly sales bought books and equipment. The Friends printed bookmarks for their sales, among them a 1991 bookmark listing four quarterly dates. By November 2019 the newsletter came out twice a year.

Drawn from: Membership drive and early activities newsletter; Newsette — Christmas party, book donations and senior patio; Newsletter — membership, book sale and regional library news; March newsletter on library funding and membership; Hermosa Friends plan sale of used books — Daily Breeze; Patricia Gazin — summer book-sale press release; Quarterly book sale schedule and interim sales bookmark; Board meeting reviews anniversary and defers election.