Rotary and Library Continue
Golden State Collection’ Partnership
The South Pasadena Rotary Club and the South Pasadena Public Library are proud to continue “The Golden State Collection,” a cooperative project to expand the Library’s collection of checkout books on California (particularly Southern California) related subjects.
Each Tuesday for its noon meeting in the Oneonta Congregational Church Tower Room, the service club honors its guest speaker by donating a Golden State Collection title in his or her name. Each book receives a signed custom bookplate featuring the guest speaker’s name and signature. Titles purchased consist of attractive new books for all ages on California culture, history, description and travel, nature, and women.
All of the Golden State books are for the circulating collection. Initially the books will be part of a display in the front area of the Library, but they will be able to be checked out. Later they will be incorporated into the regular nonfiction shelves. A descriptive brochure listing many of the books is now available as well.
The offering contains an appealing assortment of titles on Southern California history, travel, geography, and nature. The South Pasadena Rotary Club has recently purchased another fine batch for the Golden State Collection (2 of the titles on the list below were donated by other sources).
The following is a list of the recently purchased titles:
- At work: the art of California labor by Johnson
- Bear in mind: the California Grizzly, ed. by Snyder
- Becoming Cesar Chavez by Roman
- Big California Activity Book by Marsh
- Bitter Melon: Inside America’s Last Rural Chinese Town by Gillenkirk
- Blithe Tomato; an insider’s look at farmer’s market society by Madison
- California: a study of American character by Royce
- Camellias: A Curator’s Introduction to the Camellia Collection in the Huntington Botanical Gardens by Ann Richardson
- Charles F. Lummis: Editor of the Southwest by Edwin R. Bingham
- Children’s Garden Book by Percival (she lived in the Arroyo Seco)
- Child’s Guide to California wildflowers book, mountain and foothills, vol.1
- DeAnza Trail and the settling of California by Guerrero
- Desert Plants at the Huntington Botanical Gardens by Lyons
- Discovering nature’s alphabet by Castella
- Farmworker’s Daughter: growing up Mexican in America by Guilbault
- Grass games and moon races: California Indian games and toys by Gendar
- Guide to the California Gold Rush by Hart
- Gunfight at Mussel Slough: Evolution of a Western Myth by Beers
- Henry Mayo Newhall and his times: A California Legacy by Rolle
- Jewish Life in the American West by Kahn
- The Laws field guide to the Sierra Nevada by Laws
- Life in a California Mission by de la Perouse
- Magpies and mayflies: an introduction to plants and animals of the Central Valley and Sierra Foothills by Madden
- My first pocket guide about California (anon)
- One Day on Beetle Rock by Carrighar
- Open to all: what the library means to me, ed. by Fisk, Fjeldsted, and Sanfield
- Stickeen by Muir
- Testimonios: early California through the eyes of women by Beebe
- There’s an opossum in my backyard by Bogue
- Unfolding Beauty: celebrating California’s landscapes, ed. by Beers
In addition, the following Southern California-related titles from the Arcadia Publishing’s highly popular “Images of America” are being added to the Rotary Golden State Collection
- Anaheim: 1940-2007
- Azusa
- Beverly Hills: 1930-2005
- Calle Olvera de Los Angeles
- Covina
- Early Hollywood
- Early Santa Ana
- Early Santa Monica
- El Monte
- Glendale
- Glendale: 1940-2000
- Highland Park
- Los Angeles
- Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Dodgers
- Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars
- Missions of Southern California
- Pacific Electric Cars
- Riverside Mission Inn
- San Juan Capistrano
- San Pedro
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