David Sabsay
Library Consultant
Achievements
Completed thirty-six years
of successful practice as a public library director.
Consolidated seven independent public libraries in Sonoma County
into a single, countywide agency, regarded at the time as a model
library system.
Developed innovative and highly successful programs in the fields
of automation, collection development, personnel administration,
and public services.
Wrote the programs for, and oversaw the design and construction
of, a central library building and nine regional branches.
Developed library services to the institutionalized in Sonoma
County and advised the California Department of Corrections on
library matters.
Conducted a successful consultancy in library administration and
the planning and design of library buildings.
Was the chief founder and first coordinator of the six-county
North (San Francisco) Bay Cooperative Library System, the first
cooperative library system in the Western states.
Drafted and was the CLA lead person in the enactment of the first
California legislation to provide State funds for cooperative
library systems.
Drafted and was the initial CLA lead person in the enactment of
the first California legislation to provide State subventions to
individual public libraries.
Served as president of the California Library Association, and
oversaw a major reorganization of the association.
Planned a state and federal legislative network for the American
Library Association.
Received numerous citations from local and state government, the
California Library Association, and the American Library
Association.
Listed in Who's Who in America,
Who's Who in the West,
and Who's Who in Library and Information
Sciences.
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