Education and Cultural Institutions  

Libraries

There are 161 tax-supported public library systems in California, and San Francisco and Los Angeles are particularly noted for their extensive municipal library systems. Each year the state's libraries circulate an average of 4.7 books for every resident. Among the many fine college libraries in the state are those maintained by the University of California. At Stanford University is the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Extensive collections of materials on state and Western history are housed in the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley, in the California State Library in Sacramento, and in the Library of the California Historical Society in San Francisco.