LISNews: Librarian News

Don't underestimate what Friends can do. For example, the Friends of the Long Beach (CA) Library paid for a trip to Cambodia for librarian Susan Taylor and fellow library employee Lyda Thanh to purchase books for a community of local residents who speak, and sometimes read, Khmer.

The Mark Twin Library paid $3,500 for just over 1,000 the books and almost as much, $3,100, to ship them back to the states, Taylor said. All of the travel expenses for Taylor and Thanh were paid for by the Helen Fuller Cultural Carrousel committee, which is part of Friends of the Library. Story from the Press Telegram.