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Lake County Library spotlights Blair L. M. Kelley book, ZipBooks service and volunteer literacy training

2302195 · February 13, 2025
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Librarian Christopher Veach told the Lake County board that the library is promoting Blair L. M. Kelley’s Black Folk for Black History Month, reminding residents that the system offers ZipBooks (a California State Library–funded ordering service) and that a volunteer literacy tutor training will be held Feb. 20 at Lakeport Library.

Librarian Christopher Veach told the Lake County board on Zoom that the county library is highlighting Blair L. M. Kelley’s book Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class for Black History Month and is promoting its ZipBooks ordering service and an upcoming volunteer literacy tutor training.

Veach said Black Folk, which won the 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award and the Philip Taft Labor History Award, “lets readers get to know people…

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