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Who's Who: Julia Dragolovich, Library Assistant

What exactly is a library assistant substitute? Do they really move around 700 square miles? Find out in today's Who's Who.

Name: Julia Dragolovich

Age: “I’ve been around the block”

Occupation: Permanent Intermittent Library Assistant for the Contra Costa County Library

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How long have you been working with the library? Just over a year. I’m a sub, but I’ve been fortunate to get long-term positions and I’m helping with the Kensington Reads at the .

Explain a little bit for our readers about what a sub does. We fill in for library assistants, clerks and librarians when they go on vacation or a position is needed to be filled. We can go to all of the community libraries or we can restrict the area we cover as a sub, but we’re pinch hitters for the library system – 26 libraries in the Contra Costa Library system, 700 square miles.

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And you live in Kensington also? I live in Kensington, yes.

Today you’re here at the Kensington Market to promote? Kensington Reads — one city, one book. It’s a six-week festival celebrating Mark Twain, focusing on Tom Sawyer as the one book to be read. We have a whole bunch of activities. Two folks from Berkeley are going to come, including the director of the Mark Twain Project, and then on September 17 we’re having a festival at the Kensington Library, including a Gold Rush Band (singing Gold Rush Era songs) and gold panning for kids and other activities.

Is this something only Kensington Library is doing? Yes. Other libraries have done it — Lamorinda Reads has done it for quite a few years — but this is the first year Kensington Library has participated.

So this is an exciting thing? Yes. It’s new and everyone is getting really excited about it. Being here today at the market is just a wonderful way to let people know about the Kensington Library.

And I’ll bet you get to have some fun being out at the market too. Definitely. Being back here at the market is really fun.

What are your hobbies? Gardening, hiking, reading.

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