By Terry Phillips, guest reporter

About 100 people gathered at the Beale Memorial Library in Bakersfield on Monday, April 13 to discuss a proposed privatization of the management of the Kern County Library system.

The group grew too large for the conference room, so they reconvened in the auditorium.

Last month the Kern County Board of Supervisors said it was…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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(l-r) Miranda Lomeli-O’Reilly and Mandy Walters of Advocates for Library Enhancement speaking to about 100 people uniting against privatizing Kern County’s public libraries. See kernlibraryadvocates.com

The ALE website incudes this graphic and note: “LSSI gets to keep the current library budget, but skips out on paying for things, meaning this isn’t as cheap as we were led to believe.” See www.kernlibraryadvocates.com

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