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From: Diane Faye <>
Subject: SA Library and others
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:37:35 -0500 (EST)

The SA CA History Room hours currently:
2 to 6 PM, M-Sat

The library at CSUF does have a great collection of newspapers including the
Saramento Bee from the 1850s. No charge to use, except for copy card and
parking.

D

------Original Message------
From: Sunni <>
To: Diane Faye <>, CAORANGE-L <>
Sent: March 23, 2000 4:19:44 PM GMT
Subject: Re: FWD: Re: SA Library


Thanks for the information, Diane.

It looks like the Santa Ana library is even less user-friendly than it used
to be back in the days when I haunted libraries doing research for
my local history articles for Orange Coast magazine. As I recall, the
California Room has different hours from the rest of the library, and
though this may have changed, probably anybody planning to visit it should
call ahead.

I found the librarians at the Anaheim library exceptionally easy to work
with, though the local history room may have changed a lot. Just
about the time I left Orange County, the library was undergoing some budget
problems and the staff in the local history room all seemed to be
going somewhere else.

California State University at Fullerton is a good resource also and as I've
said before I liked the Huntington Beach library. (oh man, it has
been so long I am sitting here thinking, "Gee, is that the right name for
the library?")

Some of the smaller libraries can be very friendly and helpful, for example
(as I recall--youngheimer's is getting to me) the one in Costa
Mesa and Orange.

Now that there are inexpensive ways to publish, I am thinking of putting my
Orange Coast articles together into an Orange County local history
book.
Sunni

Diane Faye wrote:

> ------Original Message------
> From: Diane Faye <>
> To:
> Sent: March 23, 2000 3:12:23 PM GMT
> Subject: Re: SA Library
>
> Roberta, I don't know what you want to ask them to do, but I frequent that
> library as well as other places in OC and LA County for research and I
know
> this much re: the SA Library:
>
> They do have a portion of the library called "The CA Room" which contains
a
> good collection of books relating to, well, CA. They also have an
excellent
> set
> of County Directories from 1889 to Now. They have microfilm for the main
OC
> Newspaper, the SA Register.
>
> They charge $45 per year to use the facility (not the CA Room; this is a
> "donation" fee per visit) and to access the microfilm newspaper; or each
> visit $15 IF THE RESEARCHER IS NOT A
> RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF SA.
>
> According to the librarian there who told me this is person and gave me
her
> business card, they DO NOT do lookups in their city directories, nor any
> other book in
> their collection; they do, however, do obit lookups and copying for $15
per
> obit in the SA Rgister, payable in advance and due whether something is
> found or not.
>
> For that service write to:
> Anne Harder
> SA History Room
> SA Public Library
> 26 Civic Center Plaza
> PO Box 1988
> Santa Ana, CA 92702
>
> The newspapers are available in other facilities without a user fee; the
> Newspaper itself DOES NOT do lookups nor do they allow the public to use
> their collection. I believe they refer to some kind of online ordering
> system that charges $1 per minute ($15 minimum) to look for your obit,
> payable in advance, whether something is found or not.
>
> I hope this has helped a little bit with your questions about the SA
> Library.
>
> Diane
>
> ------Original Message------
> From:
> To:
> Sent: March 23, 2000 1:47:03 PM GMT
> Subject: Re: SA Library
>
> Hi,
> Thanks a lot for sending me the address for the library. I am in So. Texas
> getting ready to leave for Colorado so when I get home will write and see
if
> they can help me. Again thank you.
> Roberta.
>
> "quod sentimus loquamur, quod loquimur sentiamus." (Let us say what we
think, let us undertstand what we say) Seneca, ca 4 B.C.- A.D. 65
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