Long Beach Librarian Susan Taylor had a hard time finding books in Khmer for the city’s growing Cambodian community, now estimated at 50,000 to 60,000. So Taylor went shopping this month — in Phnom Penh.
Eight boxes and 1,105 new Khmer books later — half of them for children — Taylor and (library aid Lyda) Thanh now are back in Long Beach and looking forward to the weekend of February 1, when the local Cambodian community will preview the new titles. The books will then be catalogued and ready for check-out the first week of April — just in time for Cambodian New Year.
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