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PLUMAS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
One of the most highly appreciated
institutions of Plumas County is its county library, which is located in the
west wing of the Plumas County Courthouse, where it is accessible to the public
and modernly equipped in every respect.
This library has one hundred and seven branch libraries in Plumas and
Sierra counties, providing library service to the last named county by
contract. The principal branches are at
Portola, Greenville, La Porte, Sloat, Vinton, Crescent Mills, Chester,
Taylorsville and Walker Mine, in Plumas County, and at Loyalton, Downieville
and Alleghany, Sierra County. The Plumas
County Free Library was established September 7, 1915, under section two of the
county free library law, and includes the entire county as to taxes and
service. The contract for service with
Sierra County was entered into under section five of the county free library
law on August 2, 1926. The Plumas County
library has four thousand, seven hundred and fifty six registered borrowers,
and there are seven hundred and ninety-four in Sierra County. The library contains fifty thousand volumes,
as well as the current magazines and metropolitan newspapers, and there is an
adequate supply of records, maps, globes and other avenues of reference,
particularly for the use of the public and high schools. The first librarian was Miss Dorothy Clark,
after who came in succession Miss Helen Atkey, Miss
Carmelita Duff, Miss Edith Gantt, and the present very efficient and
accommodating librarian, Miss Katherine R. Woods. The library, with its various branches, is
rendering a very splendid service to Plumas and Sierra counties and that it is
functioning in a satisfactory manner is evidenced by the large and steadily
increasing number of patrons in both counties.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3 Pages 333-334. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.