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• Press Release: California State Library Report Points to Challenges and Needs of Women Veterans
• CRB announces the release of its new report California's Women Veterans: Response to the 2011 Survey: Preliminary Report. California has the largest number (167,000) and greatest proportion (9.5 percent) of women veterans in America. This report presents findings from the 2011 survey of nearly 900 women veterans about their needs, service utilization and who they are. It finds women veterans are accessing some services but knowledge of services in California and at the federal level is limited. Additionally, women veterans are saying they need gender-specific services and respect and recognition for their service.
• State Library Initiates Pinterest Board on Website. The California State Library launched a new feature to its website. Pinterest is a new way to find out what the State Library has to offer, including special collections, California history, art, images, photos and current exhibits on display in the Mead B. Kibbey Gallery at the Library.

• The California Research Bureau announces the release of its report California Charter Oversight: Key Elements and Actual Costs.  This report explores the practices of charter school authorizers in California and provides options for improving oversight practices.  The report is available at http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/12/12-001.pdf.

• Sutro Library in San Francisco is moving and is temporarily closed Learn more.
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  The State Library launches a new online resource, California Demographic Profiles: By Library Jurisdiction and County -- a tool to help facilitate a greater understanding of how California's changing demographic characteristics can be used to inform library decisions and services.
  



• Studies in the News, a free e-mail service for state policymakers and their staffs, has been relaunched by the State Library's California Research Bureau. SITN provides links to objective, non-partisan reports, articles, and court rulings on public policy issues that impact Californians. To review the current issue or sign up for an RSS feed, visit http://www.library.ca.gov/sitn/crb/. To receive SITN by e-mail, contact the CRB at crb@library.ca.gov, or phone (916) 319-2691.
• The 100th issue of the California State Library Foundation Bulletin includes a brief history of the Bulletin, a review of l’Art Culinaire, and an overview of interesting public transit materials in our collections.
  

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Full information services for the California State Library are available at 900 N Street during renovation of the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building. Information Services, Government Publications, Witkin State Law Library, and the Braille & Talking Book Library are all located in Room 100 on the first floor. Online resources and frequently-used print resources are readily available; other materials may need to be paged from off site.

The California History Room continues to provide history and genealogy information services in Room 200 on the second floor at 900 N Street.

Visitors are always welcome. For service hours, directions, and contact information, visit Locations and Hours. For renovation information, see Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building Renovation.