LBReport.com broke the news last week that Main Library’s Director of Library Services Eleanore Schmidt was retiring, but the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins has what we believe is the first interview with Schmidt.
Check it out. Schmidt, who came to Long Beach in 1989, fought years ago for a library tax that was shot down by Long [...]

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MAIN LIBRARY: STILL OPEN

August 18, 2008

If the City of Long Beach had stuck to its original timetable, Main Library would be open just more six weeks before closing indefinitely. Then, some day, a new, watertight, earthquake-proof Main Library would be built or rebuilt, there or elsewhere. Some day.
That’s what worries members of

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