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libraries. A bird's-eye view of the county library system of California will show not only thickly settled 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 support 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 publication 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 aggregating 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

Library in 1892 and has done good work. The California State Library opened a school in 1914 and continued until 1920 when similar instruction was undertaken at the University of California. There is also a School of Library Service well maintained in connection with the public library at Riverside.

STATISTICAL APPENDICES

Appendix A-California Counties: area, population, number and value of farms.

Appendix B-California Climatic Conditions Condensed and Compared.

Appendix C-California Soil Surveys.

Appendix D-Quantities and Values of California Mining Products.

Appendix E-Statistics of Forests, Forestry and Lumbering.

Appendix F-Numbers and Distribution of AutoVehicles in California.

Appendix G-Quantities and Values of California Farm Crops of 1920.

Appendix H-Commercial Uses of California Fruit Crops, 1920.

Appendix I-Quantities and Values of California Dairy Products, 1919-20.

Appendix J-List of Coöperative and Product-Selling Associations.

Appendix K-Statistics of California Irrigation Districts, March 1921.

Appendix Schools, 1920.

L-Statistics of California Public

APPENDIX A

CALIFORNIA COUNTIES: AREA, POPULATION, NUMBER AND VALUE OF FARMS

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