Author: Dorothy Lazard, What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World

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In her new memoir, Dorothy Lazard, longtime and now retired librarian, tells a migration story, a Black Power story, a multi-generational family story and a story that celebrates the enduring quest for education and freedom.

We sit down with Lazard to discuss her new book, What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World. We talk about her love of San Francisco and Oakland, her career in libraries and how reading transformed her life. The deeply beloved and now retired doyenne of the Oakland Public Library system, Lazard built a career carrying the torch for the potent role of libraries as a haven for youth, the ever-curious, the underserved and the often marginalized.

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