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Bulletin 119 (1.9 CALIFORNIA S T A T E LIBRARY FOUNDATION Number 119 2017 CALIFORNIA S T A T E LIBRARY FOUNDATION Number 119 2017 EDITOR 2 � � � � � �“Public Libraries Are Unsung Heroes”: A Conversation Gary F. Kurutz with Library Development Services Bureau Chief Wendy Hopkins EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS By M. Patricia Morris Kathleen Correia & Brittney Cook COPY EDITOR 8 � � � � � �The Earl Cecil Payne and Muriel Hopkins Payne Collection M. Patricia Morris of Twentieth Century California Nature Photography Donated to the State Library By Burt Thompson BOARD OF DIRECTORS Kenneth B. Noack, Jr. 16 � � � � �Braille and Talking Book Director Visits the National Library in Egypt, President Library of Alexander and Historic Sites By Michael Marlin Donald J. Hagerty Vice-President 20 � � � � �George Washington’s Writings, Brought by Forty-Niners to Thomas E. Vinson California To Aid Them as “Citizens of a New Community & Treasurer a Rising State” By Nick Aretakis Marilyn Snider Secretary 23 � � � � �Extra-Illustration: From Marginalia to Scrapbooks. Greg Lucas State Librarian of California Highlights from the Sutro Library By Diana Kohnke 26 � � � � �The Love Generation: Music & Art from the Summer of 67 JoAnn Levy Marilyn Snider By Sariah Groff Phillip L. Isenberg Thomas W. Stallard Mead B. Kibbey Phyllis Smith Gary Noy Angelo A. Williams 30 � � � � � Hidden Treasures — Jurisprudence Edition By Gary Noy Jeff Volberg 32 � � � � �Foundation Notes Gary F. Kurutz Brittney Cook Alfred A� Hart Granite Monument Dedicated by Mead B� Kibbey Executive Director Foundation Administrator By Gary F. Kurutz Shelley Ford A New Foundation Administrator Is Hired to Replace Departing Bookkeeper Marta Knight By Gary F. Kurutz The California State Library Foundation Bulletin is published when we are able. © 2004-2017. 35 � � � � �Recent Contributors Opinions of the authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their institutions, Front Cover: A full moon and firefall at Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley. Digital 1 1 the California State Library or the Foundation. scan made from a 2 /4 x 2 /4 color negative by Earl Payne. See article by Burt Thompson, pages 8-15. The Bulletin is included as a membership benefit to Foundation members and those Back Cover: “El Capitan Grandeur” by Earl Payne. Digital scan made from 35mm individuals contributing $40.00 or more annually color slide. to Foundation Programs. Membership rates are: Illustrations and Photo Credits: The editor extends his gratitude to Brittney Cook, Associate: $40-$99 Vincent Beiderbecke and Matt Bartok for their expertise in creating digital scans Contributor: $100-249 and photographs. Michael Marlin and Diana Kohnke supplied the images for their Sponsor: $250-$499 respective articles. Patron: $500-$999 Institutional: $500 Design: Angela Tannehill, Tannehill Design | www.angelatannehill.com Corporate: $750 Lifetime Member: $1,000 California State Library Foundation Pioneer: $5,000 1225 8th Street, Suite 345, Sacramento, CA 95814 Subscription to Libraries: $30/year tel: 916.447.6331 | web: www.cslfdn.org | email: [email protected] bulletin 119 1 Away from the demands of the Library Development Services Bureau, Wendy Hopkins is photographed in the calm of the State Library’s rare book room. 2 California State Library Foundation Public Libraries Are Unsung Heroes A Conversation with Library Development Services Bureau Chief Wendy Hopkins By M. Patricia Morris he California State Library has Hopkins likened her role to a connection to virtually every public library in the state through that of an orchestra conductor the programs of its Library Development Services Bureau. On August 12, 2017, I of an incredibly talented team. met with Bureau Chief Wendy Hopkins in her office at the Library to talk about the bureau’s recent activities. During an lowing that she worked for a variety of orga- hour-long interview, she shared many nizations including the Federal Emergency stories that spoke to the creativity and Management Agency (FEMA) before being innovation taking place both at the State hired at the California Department of Pub- Library and in the field aimed at improv- lic Health, where she was responsible for ing public library services. the department’s communications relating State Librarian Greg Lucas chose Wendy to high risk situations such as earthquakes Hopkins two and one-half years ago to and pandemics. head the bureau. Her background is not in During the course of our conversation, librarianship, but in media and communi- Hopkins likened her role to that of an cations. In the 1990s, she served as Gover- “orchestra conductor of an incredibly tal- nor Pete Wilson’s media relations director. ented team.” Then for many years she ran the California When the bureau is at full strength, State Legislature’s broadcast services. Fol- as chief, Hopkins heads a staff of twelve. EDITOR’S NOTE Patricia Morris is the Foundation’s copy editor. In addition, she has contributed several superb articles to the Bulletin. Morris is active in two Toastmasters Clubs, the Capital Communicators and Capitol Captivators. This year Morris received the Distinguished Toastmaster award. bulletin 119 3 The creativity in these During the downturn, the bureau lost half health, we felt it beneficial to train librari- its staff requiring the remaining members ans on how to deal effectively and compas- libraries is astonishing,” she to cover the same workload. sionately with any patron suffering with She said, the principal work of the team mental illness, so that not only would the said. “I think public libraries is to “oversee, administer, and monitor librarian staff feel safe and secure in their approximately $10 million dollars in fed- work environment but other patrons in are unsung heroes of eral and state grants.” “What we do,” she the library won’t be disturbed by, or fearful added, “is create grant programs that go of, individuals affected by mental illness. communities. I think people out to public libraries, so they can create “We teamed up with the National Coun- programs that are beneficial to their com- cil of Behavioral Health, and they provided would be truly shocked to walk munity, things like teen programs and five-day training classes for thirty people summer reading programs.” each. Each of these thirty people, by taking into a library and find out how The largest source of library funding that training, had to agree to conduct three administered by the Library Development eight-hour classes of their own. Approxi- vibrant it is. How much there Services Bureau comes from the federal mately 600 librarians and community government through the Library Services partners, like police and fire and other is to offer. It is not just books, and Technology Act (LSTA). The Institute agencies that encounter people affected by for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) mental health, have been trained. just audio, just CDs.” is the federal agency responsible for dis- “There is one component where we are tributing LSTA grant and operational creating a series of eight videos of the dif- funds to the fifty states. ferent things that librarians can do for How do libraries compete for these people with mental health issues. Like grants? Hopkins said, “There are several when someone becomes violent or aggres- different ways, because we have different sive, or how to deal with teens with men- levels of grant programs.” She proceeded tal health issues and that type of thing. Of to describe how one State Library LSTA course any library in the nation can bring program came into being. these videos up on YouTube and benefit from the information that we are sharing. STATE LIBRARY’S MENTAL So that is just one example of the type of HEALTH INITIATIVE grants that we can do,” Hopkins said. “Over a year ago,” she said, “we saw the The creation of the Mental Health Initia- mental health crisis escalating when there tive was so compelling, I was curious about was the San Bernardino shooting. The other LSTA grants the bureau had worked poor people of San Bernardino were so on. “The list is so long,” Hopkins said. But affected. A lot of people raced to the library she accommodated me by describing the because they wanted resources to find out Career Online High School program that how to get help, how to get mental health had its start as a pilot program. help, what to do about gun control. So the point was to provide, first of all, San Ber- GETTING A HIGH SCHOOL nardino with materials to help the people DIPLOMA AT YOUR LIBRARY of San Bernardino, and the local library to “In Career Online High School,” Hopkins help meet those needs. And obviously it said, “anybody of any age can work with can happen anywhere, so we developed it the libraries that have this program and get into a statewide program. their diploma. It is not a GED. It is an actual “State Librarian Greg Lucas, the high school diploma. You can pick up at E-Team,1 and a lot of members of my staff whatever point you are at. felt the need for a grant to be created, a $1 “Say a young person who is three quar- million grant, to go out for mental health ters away from a high school diploma had resources for public libraries. For mental to drop out in their junior year for whatever 4 California State Library Foundation reason. They had to support their family, she said, “help stop the summer slide when or had to go to work. They can come back kids get out of school. They stop and have a NAPA’S BIKE BRANCH and pick up where they left off and com- fun summer and they lose so much of what To extend outreach to their communi- plete their credits and complete their high they learned in the school year, so they sort ties, a number of libraries in California school diploma, which gives them a better of have to start over again to a degree in the are turning to bike bookmobiles.
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