A librarian for forty years, local Bay Area treasure Dorothy Lazard joined the staff of the Oakland Public Library in 2000. From 2009 until her retirement in 2021, she was the head librarian of the Oakland Public Library Oakland History Center, where she encouraged people of all ages and backgrounds to explore local history. On today’s show, she joins us today to talk about her new book – a memoir called What You Don’t Know Will Make A Whole New World.
FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $100 and receive a copy of Dorothy Lazard’s new memoir – What You Don’t Know Will Make A Whole New World. Dorothy Lazard grew up in the Bay Area of the 1960s and ’70s. Today, Lazard is celebrated for her distinguished career as a librarian and public historian, and in these pages she connects her early intellectual pursuits—including a formative encounter with Alex Haley—to the career that made her a community pillar.
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