I have a Google News RSS feed set up to alert me when the phrase "Monterey Public Library" appears in the news.

This morning, I read this article from the Ashland, Oregon Daily Tidings, about today's 100th birthday celebration for Ashland resident Helen Smith.

Smith--then Helen Gilbert, we believe--was the children's librarian at Monterey Public library in the 1940s.

We wish her the best!