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  • Library materials, finding tools change in last 50 years

    on March 15, 2021

    Here, some old photos remind us that, in the 1970s, many of the materials available to library customers, and the tools used to find them, were different…


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  • The “new” library’s librarian

    on March 8, 2021
    Oscar Smaalders
    Stanislaus County Librarian Oscar Smaalders

    Oscar Smaalders, the Stanislaus County Librarian from 1968 until his retirement…


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