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Among other things, [Jan Neal] began fielding daily phone calls from the national media and stepping in as a liaison for grassroots organizations such as Save Salinas Libraries. The financial control over the library also came to rest in Neal's already stuffed-full hands. While [Jorge Rifa] deals with money issues involving the Salinas City Council, Neal has the difficult chore of deciding how to spend it.
Neal can attribute her ability to manage resources and assign tasks to an analytical brain. She says she would have majored in a science had she known of her options when attending college in St. Louis. Instead she felt the need to escape the high-crime city and came up with an excuse. Indiana University, Neal's desired school, had a top-notch library science graduate program. Knowing only that she liked books, Neal used this to reason the move with her parents."I'm willing to be tired; I'm not willing to be unhappy," Neal says. Mostly she draws inspiration from the positive attitudes of people like Rifa, who often tells her at the end of the day, "If you come back tomorrow, I will too."See the full content of this document
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The Book Lover
When acting Library Director Jan Neal asked one of her employees recently how far he'd gotten in inventorying the vast stacks in the John Steinbeck Library, he replied...
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