LBCC renames library to honor community trailblazer Bobbie Smith

LBCC renames library to honor community trailblazer Bobbie Smith

Long Beach City College’s library, on its Liberal Arts Campus, now has a new name – the Bobbie Smith Library. The community college renamed its library to honor Smith, LBCC’s first African American librarian and a lifelong education leader for literacy, equity and justice. “Bobbie Smith devoted her life to education – not just as a profession, but as a calling,” Uduak-Joe Ntuk, president of the Long Beach Community College District’s Board of Tr…