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If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news.For being a home of books, the Pasadena Public Library has plenty of its own tales to tell, laying claim to a storied history.
“We do not have the capacity to offer the same level of service through our branch libraries alone,” McDonald said. “There are programs and services that were offered at Central Library that we are not able to accommodate in those neighborhood branch libraries.” “The bond measure is … the leading source of funding, but if the library remains unfunded, then the library will need to remain closed,” Gerod said.
“We’re not able to connect and bring people together in our branches on the scale that we were at the Central Library,” McDonald said. “Even a hundred years ago, the people in Pasadena really valued the library services.”
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