As 2015 draws to a close we want to thank our members and contributors for helping us support the State Library’s valuable programs. Your response to our year-end contribution drive has been spectacular! We hope you were able to enjoy the library’s State...
The Foundation’s holiday luncheon, held on December 2nd this year was part celebration, part send-off. Amid holiday cheer and fond reminiscences, Sue T. Noack and George Basye made their retirement from the Board of Directors official. Directors and their...
The Foundation’s Bulletin no. 113 is hot off the presses and a preview is available online in pdf format. This issue features M. Patricia Morris’ fascinating interview with Harold Adler, whose photographs of the 1960s and 1970s civil rights protests will...
By Gary F. Kurutz On Friday, October 23rd, we hosted the Society of California Pioneers led by Dr. Kevin Starr. One hundred Pioneers came. We divided the groups into rotating thirds: two touring the Library & Courts Building and one coming over to the California...
By Gary F. Kurutz, Executive Director Pope Francis I will be visiting the United States and will canonize Fray Junípero Serra as a saint of the Catholic Church on September 23. Fr. Serra is recognized as the founder of the California mission system. In 1890, Adolph...
New Joe D’Ambrosio Exhibit in the Library Annex at 900 N. Street, Sacramento: The Book as an Art Form (Text courtesy of exhibit curator Gary Kurutz, Special Collections) On display in the rotunda of the State Library Annex is an exhibit devoted to the noted book...
