For my hometown reading support staff-- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br >Merlg JiUson， Edith Nettleton， Jean Baldwin， The author wishes to thank the staff of the Guilford Free<br >Miriam Burton， and my parents， Paul and Library， Guilford， Connecticut， for all their help and coop-<br > eration on this book. Special thanks to Sandra Ruoff，<br >Dorothy Jaspersohn -- with gratitude and love head librarian， and Lana Ferguson， children s librarian，<br > for their many editorial contributions and suggestions.<br > Extra-special thanks to all the patrons of the Guilford<br >Copyr ght ~.) 1994 by William Jaspersohn Free Library， especially the parents and children， who<br >All rights reserved. For information about permission allowed me to photograph them as they put this beautiful<br >to reproduce selections from this book， write to community resource to maximum use. Blessings all. -- wJ<br >Permissions， Houghton Mifflin Company， 215 Park Avenue<br >South， New York， New York 10003.<br > Picture Credits: The photo of the Library of Congress on<br >Library of Congress CatabJging-in-Publication Data page 6 is courtesy of the Library of Congress. The floor<br >Jaspersohn， William.<br > My hometown library / William Jaspersohn. plan on page 9 was drawn by Joseph Lee. All other photo-<br > p. cm. graphs axe by the author.<br > Summary: ] he author describes the resources and services at his<br >hometown library and how they have changed over the years.<br > ISBN 0-395-55723-2<br > 1. Libraries--Juvenile literature. [1. Libraries.] I. Title.<br >Z665.5.J38 1994 92-17372<br >027.4--dc20 CIP<br > AC<br >Prir，lcd in Singapore<br >TWP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 l<br >