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Linda's first librarian, Gertrude Welch, celebrating Christmas
with her uncle in 1910. The ostrich's name was “President Taft,”
and was the main attraction at a South Pasadena ostrich farm. In
April of 1913, Gertrude Welch thought that the people of Yorba
Linda should have their own library. A citizen's group held a
meeting and made plans to start a library. The Yorba Linda
School District gave permission to put the library in a
300-square foot room in the grammar school on School Street. The
library was located in the Yorba Linda School on School street
until 1916. Volunteers installed bookshelves and helped to
redecorate the room. Gertrude Welch herself donated sixty-three
books to the new library, and the Yorba Linda Women's Club
donated books and held “teas” to rai