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The CA State Library now offers online subject guides through the LibGuides platform! 🎉

Additional guides will continue to be added periodically.
Explore the subject guides at https://t.co/yZuNV0x7KV

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Happy Day 1 of #CAStateParksWeek! 🌲

June 11 events:

🌾 Great Valley Grasslands SP (8 a.m.) — Floodplain restoration celebration.

🐦 @CrystalCoveStatePark (10–11:30 a.m.) — Wildlife walk.

🤿 D.L. Bliss SP (10:30–10:55 a.m.) — Live Lake Tahoe scuba dive.

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Journey with us in uncovering Native American ancestry, from family lore to historical verification & tribal enrollment! This free virtual webinar presented by professional genealogist Aimee Rose-Haynes is on Thurs. June 18 at 4 pm. Register at https://t.co/IH63q4j9nI

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Greg’s Roman Empire is…the Roman Empire. He’s reading The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper.

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Did you miss the D-Day anniversary on June 6? Catch up with @ArmyUniversityPress documentary “D-Day: Planning the Impossible” and discover the story behind history’s largest seaborne invasion. #MilitaryHistory #WorldWar2 #WWII https://t.co/b6dp1GIn6s

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Hit the road in this week’s Shelf Life by perusing this travel diary created by Myrtle Shoemaker. It documents an automobile trip through California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia and is illustrated with original photographs and hand painted watercolor sketches

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Start your summer TBR list off with these titles!

The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya by David Stuart
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers
Nettle & Bone by Ursula Vernon

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June is Pride Month! In 2018, CA became the first state in the nation to officially recognize June as Pride Month, when Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Silicon Valley) authored AB 2969 and former Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law.

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Shelf Life goes from the shelf to the outdoors w/ the Book of Nature from 1903, illustrated by Johnny Jones. We don’t know Johnny’s age, but we can confirm that he was a talented artist even if he needed help with spelling by his mother, Clara Walton Prescott.

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The CA State Library announces the award of $750,000 in grant funds to ensure the physical and digital preservation and increased accessibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer archives relating to LGBTQ+ history in CA. Read more at https://t.co/qd3DRDHQaq

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CRB has created The Value of a Degree interactive. Workers w/ a college or graduate degree earn more throughout the state, w/ the largest premium in urban areas, especially the SF Bay Area. The earnings gap between genders is highest in higher-earning state legislative districts

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We’re big fans of manual shelves

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Happy election day! Make sure to cast your vote and let your voice be heard.

Every vote counts, and participating in the democratic process is a powerful way to shape the future. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Remember to drop off your ballot or be in line to vote in person by 8 p.m. to make your vote count.

Happy voting!
#SCCVote #ElectionDay

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Learn more at the CRB (@CAStateLibrary) Residential Construction Interactive: https://t.co/MlZ7RDOleW

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Greg’s back again looking at what leaders read, and diving in to what was on JFK’s bookshelf.

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We’re adding to the collection all the time! Check out the latest in our CA History section!

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To learn more, please visit https://t.co/OfOY4664JB. California’s Bookshelf is supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in CA by the State Librarian.

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Library Programs Consultant Chris shows us how to easily download and listen to an audiobook from California’s Bookshelf, the statewide eBook Library where every CA reader can discover a book to capture the imagination or learn something new.

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Our library “pet” Browser may not have fur, or a brain for that matter, but we love him all the same and celebrate him this National Pets Month

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Shelf Life hits the books, rare and fragile textbooks that is! These books written in the Chinese language were once used by the Chinese community in Locke, now a National Historic Landmark District located in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta area.