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The article discusses how the online social media tool Twitter is being used by the California Digital Library (CDL) to interact with clients and new members. CDL publishes the contents of its monthly newsletter "CDLInfo News" and other CDL programs on Twitter. CDL developed guidelines for its staff concerning what and how to tweet, how followers are assessed and how followers can also be followed by CDL.

Discusses the idea that the need to provide library services to the Spanish-speaking population continues to intensify, in light of the significant growth of this population in the U.S. Recent growth trends which show the beginning of change in the pattern of Hispanic concentrations; Reading interests of new immigrants, including a desire to learn English; Reading interests of settled immigrants, including self-help books; Idea that major Hispanic groups are interested in reading material about political systems; Mention of Maria Kramer of the Biblioteca Latinoamericana in San Jose, California, who serves a Hispanic community.

The article reports that all 23 branches of the San José Public Library (SJPL) in California will remain open for two additional days per week as of July 1, 2015 . Comments are noted from SJPL director Jill Bourne regarding additional library users who will be served by the increased hours. Also discussed is the renewal of San José's library parcel tax approved by voters in 2014.

Every library where I have worked has held fundraisers, mostly book sales that were sometimes combined with bake sales. In Monroeville, we are lucky to have an active Friends of the Library group that takes care of the annual used book sale, which brings people to us in droves during that weekend. Both of these events raise money, but if we depended entirely on them, our budget would be very small. Perhaps even greater than the amount of money they raise is the value of bringing people into the library. The Library Support Staff.com Web site has a section titled "See what others have done," which offers links to some interesting ideas for library fundraisers. I found that some of the links were not working, but I did successfully follow the link to the Nova Scotia Provincial Library to learn of its fund-raising activities and to see an article in Urban Parks online that discussed "affinity groups" that worked to raise funds for the San Francisco Public Library.

The article reports that the primary library of the Long Beach Public Library in Long Beach, California, will remain open. Bob Foster, Mayor of Long Beach, said that the library was not built to withstand an earthquake and needed costly repairs. Because of budget cuts, he said the library would have to close, but after many library users protested his decision, the library was allowed to remain open.

The article reports on the country's first Library-a-Go-Go machine located in a Bay Area Rapid Transit location in California. The California State Library, Bay Area Library Consortium and Baker and Taylor funded the model program. Contra Costa County Library (CCCL) in Pleasant Hill, California will stock the location with adult and young adult fiction and nonfiction titles. The Swedish company Distec created the machines.

Announces that the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) is conducting an organized marketing campaign to increase library use and numbers of cardholders. Discussion of the strategy and theme of the campaign, "The Best Things in Life Are Still Free"; Way that library automation created the need for all library cards to be reissued to library users; Customer service survey which was conducted by the library, and which found that some who did not use the library were not aware of library services; Details of library finance at the LAPL.

Reports that the Los Angeles Library Association (LALA) hosted a fundraiser with the theme "Stay home and read a book." Success of the fundraiser, which called for supporters to send donations to the library and then read a book; Use of the funding to support the library's reading programs which benefit children, librarians, teenagers, and other library users.

Presents findings of a report by the Rand Corp. of Santa Monica, California on the use of public libraries in California. Use of the public library as a source of information; Impact on the future of public library service; Challenges of serving ethnic populations.

Reports that the Huntington Beach Library Patrons Foundation has sponsored a Concours d'Elegance featuring classic automobiles.

Presents information on the library-user survey created by the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Library of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Considerations in designing the survey; Method of minimizing the cost of implementing the survey; Instructions given by the library's resident Statistical Package for the Social Sciences expert, on completing the survey.

Reports on the possibility that Charles Allaway, a former janitor who killed seven people at a California university library in 1976, may be released from a state mental hospital. Allaway's successful insanity defense after his killings at the California State University at Fullerton; The decision by state psychiatrists that he had regained his mental health and was fit for release; Judges' previous denials of parole; The concerns of the victim's families, that Allaway might be released.

The article reports that the firing of Brenda Biesterfeld, a library employee in the Tulare County Library in California, sparked controversy and the threat of a lawsuit. Biesterfeld defied her supervisor, Library Services Specialist Judi Hill, by alerting police to a patron viewing what she believed to be child pornography. She received a letter from Tulare County Librarian Brian Lewis dismissing her for unsatisfactory performance.

Reports on the full-color books representing Dewey subject areas that were added to the bookshelves of the Public Library of Oakland, California in 2005. Amount of the state grant received by the library; Library patrons who will benefit from the pictograms.

Discusses events that occurred in libraries during 1917. Removal of all German-language books from the shelves of the San Francisco Public Library in California during World War I; Anti-German sentiments at public libraries across the U.S.; Publication by the Lebanon Public Library in Indiana during 1987 of a list of borrowers with overdue books; How events demonstrate that the library community's response to challenges against patron confidentiality have not been consistent.