Our rules must be logical and not governed by whim. An experienced librarian should be able to tell if the student comes to the library just to make trouble, or to study. We believe that the modern youngster is pretty fine, we like them and want to help them. We have no feud with them. We should earn their respect by doing all we can to help them.
Many patrons speak of their pride in their library.
We have an excellent, well-trained staff. It has been striking, in reviewing annual reports going back to the 1920s, how similar the goals, problems, and concerns were in the past compared to today. The library seems to have gone through a number of cycles of good times and expansion followed by declines and struggles to maintain quality services. In the future, I hope, this history will continue and cover the period from 1964 to the present. In 1964, Marilyn Tamura became Senior Librarian and Bea Yasui Children's Librarian.