HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 01011969 - 69-240 IN THE BOARD OF SUPE MSOAS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of )
Proclaiming Week of ) RESOLUTION NUMBER 69/240
April 20-26, 1969
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK.
WHEREA.S NATIONAL LIBRARY WM is observed for the twelfth
year during the week of April zo-26, 1969 as a citizen sponsored
program focusing attention on the nations libraries and their
resources; and
WHEREAS these resources must encompass bothaccumulated
knowledge from the past and accumulating knowledge of the present
with all contemporary points of view represented to enable the Indi-
vidual to make by his own mind, and to provider the citizen of tomorrow
with access to material on all aspects of these fermenting tunes; and
WHEREAS the citizens of this county, by their accelerating
use of libraries demonstrated by borrowing nearly ,three; million book's
from, their public libraries during the past year-, and by thein in-
volvement with plans to Improve local library housing and servioes,
recognize the significance of the public library as an agency for the
free, public, informal education of individuals;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOD that the Board of Supervisors
of Contra Costa County, reaffirming its support of the rights of all
eitizeens for freedom to read, freedom of thought, and freedom of
Inquiry, hereby DESIGNATES the week of April 20-26, 1969 as NATIONAL
LIBRARY WEEK and urges its observance throughout the county.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 8th day of April, 1969, by the
following vote of the Board:
AYES': Supervisors James P Kenny, Alfred M. Dias,
Thomas Jahn Coll, Edmund. A. Linseheid,
James E. Moriarty
NOES: Mone.
ABSERT: None.
RESOLUTION NUMBER 69/24Q