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MARYSVILLE CITY LIBRARY

     One of the most important public institutions of Marysville, Yuba county, is the City Library, the value and popularity of which is attested by the steady increase of its patronage. The present splendid library building, located at the corner of Fourth and C streets, was provided for by the late John Q. Packard, who on July 20, 1905, donated seventy-five thousand dollars to the city for the erection of a new library building. At the same time he gave a like amount for a similar purpose to Salt Lake City, Utah. The building at Marysville was erected in 1905 and occupied in the following year, and is, in its design and arrangements, ideally adapted to the purpose for which it was intended. It is a free library and is under the control of the city. The first librarian was Miss Mary E. Suber, after whom came Mrs. Engell for a few months. She was succeeded by Miss Clara Tiejens, followed by Mrs. Mary Rolls Hatch, and then came the present capable and efficient librarian, Miss Donna Louise Burchell. The library has approximately fourteen thousand volumes on its shelves, while on its tables are to be found a well selected assortment of current magazines and newspapers. The library has about two thousand five hundred card holders, while the reading rooms are used by many of whom no record is kept.

     Miss Donna Louise Burchell was born in Fallon, Churchill county, Nevada, and is a daughter of Charles Monroe and Effie (Harris) Burchell, who now live in Wheatland, Yuba county, where the father is engaged in the hardware business and owns valuable ranch property. Miss Burchell attended the public schools at Willows, California, to the fourth grade, after which she attended the schools of Wheatland, where her father had located. She entered the University of California at Berkeley, as a student in the College of Letter and Sciences, in which she majored in English, and from which she was graduated in 1928. Miss Burchell then became assistant to Mrs. Hatch in the Marysville City Library, and a few months later was promoted to assistant librarian. When Mrs. Hatch was granted a leave of absence, during June and July, 1929, Miss Burchell is very courteous and accommodating in her relations with the in which capacity she has rendered a service which has been uniformly commended. She received thorough training under Mrs. Hatch, who was an expert librarian and later taught library work in Philadelphia. Miss Burchell is very courteous and accommodating in her relations with the library patrons, and all who know her hold her in high esteem. She is a member of the Chi Sigma Pi sorority at Berkeley and belongs to the Order of Eastern Star at Wheatland. She has a sister, Catherine Margaret Burchell, who is a student in the junior college at Marysville.

Transcribed by Craig Hahn.

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