Helen Riley, 77, is ready to retire from the Barstow Branch Library after many long and happy years of telling stories to children there.
She traveled hundreds of miles a week in the county library’s bookmobile in the 1970s, traveling to places near and far, from Riverside Drive to a prison near Boron.
“We took the library to the people,” Riley said.
Although Riley’s head is filled with memories of her library career, she said she’s ready to retire. Instead of reading books, she said she might go back to writing books, something she did before becoming a library worker.
This article in the Desert Dispatch gives us more on her background, and she also shares some of her best tips to get kids reading.
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