Santa Ana is the 9th most populous city in California. I compared Santa Ana's library system (focusing on number of libraries in relation to population) with the 8 California cities with more residents than Santa Ana and the 8 cities just below Santa Ana in population.
The result...
The only large city in California with as pathetic a library record as Santa Ana is Modesto. Holy cows, what an embarrassment!
| City | Population | Libraries | Residents per Library |
| Los Angeles | 3,834,340 | 72 | 53,255 |
| San Diego | 1,266,731 | 36 | 35,187 |
| San Jose | 939,899 | 19 | 49,468 |
| San Francisco | 764,976 | 25 | 30,599 |
| Fresno | 470,508 | 12 | 39,209 |
| Long Beach | 466,520 | 12 | 38,877 |
| Sacramento | 460,242 | 15 | 30,683 |
| Oakland | 401,489 | 18 | 22,305 |
| Santa Ana | 339,555 | 2 | 169,778 |
| Anaheim | 333,249 | 6 | 55,542 |
| Bakersfield | 315,837 | 8 | 39,480 |
| Riverside | 294,437 | 6 | 49,073 |
| Stockton | 287,245 | 5 | 57,449 |
| Chula Vista | 217,478 | 4 | 54,370 |
| Modesto | 203,955 | 1 | 203,955 |
| Fremont | 201,334 | 4 | 50,334 |
| Irvine | 201,160 | 3 | 67,053 |
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not to mention that sausd schools started this year with no library services AT ALL in their elementary schools! all the library staff was laid off and never re-hired.
Wow that is criminal! Will they be re-hired later in the year to (wrongfully) save a couple bucks, or are they out for the entire school year?
I personally would be a few notches dumber without if my school library hadn't been staffed when I was a kid. (I was big on the Dr Doolittle series...pre-Eddie Murphy..., Shel Silverstein, and this book on ESP.)
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