Reading an OPED piece from the Los Angeles Times - these statistics caught my eye:
"Other states employ an average of one public librarian to 6,250 patrons. As of last year, 3,432 full-time librarians served 37,253,956 Californians. In other words, California librarians were each expected to serve 10,854 patrons. We also employ fewer school librarians than any other state, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Here, there is one school librarian for every 5,965 students; the national average is one librarian to 865 students."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-powers-librarians-20111026,0,3265383.story
It just kind of mind boggling to see the disparity.
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