EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 361 



libraries. A bird's-eye view of the county library 

 system of California will show not only thickly set- 

 tled communities receiving splendid library service 

 through branch libraries but also the most remote 

 sections of each county having at their command all 

 of the resources of the county library and through 

 it free access to the State library. Many branches 

 are from fifty to one hundred miles from a railroad 

 and quite a number of them have their books sent to 

 them on pack animals over the trails." 



The State Librarian not only gives effective sup- 

 port and promotion to the county libraries but holds 

 in his official eye all the libraries of the State and 

 publishes a quarterly (now in its sixteenth volume) 

 entitled News Notes of California Libraries, which 

 is devoted "to the interests of the libraries of the 

 state/' one number each year being a "Statistical 

 Number" which gives the dimensions, characters and 

 personnel of all California libraries, except those of 

 schools, churches and individual owners. This pub- 

 lication for October 1920 shows that the forty-one 

 county libraries already mentioned received from 

 public taxation during the year ending June 30, 1920, 

 $718,984.03 and that they contained volumes aggre- 

 gating 1,510,331. California has two hundred and 

 eight library buildings, of which one hundred and 

 sixty-eight were gifts, including one hundred and 

 forty-two from Andrew Carnegie. 



To provide training for those desiring to qualify 

 themselves for library service, the Los Angeles 

 Library school was opened at the Los Angeles Public 



