| Pauma-Yuima Reservation Ethnology-Language: Luiseño Established: 1892 County: San Diego Acreage: 5,905 (in four separate tracts) Population: 151 Location: In the northeastern corner of San Diego County, in the foothills of Mount Palomar about 65 miles from downtown San Diego, off Highway 76. Pauma is a growing reservation whose main village area is given character by a small chapel, adobe-style tribal hall and adjacent adobe ruins. Pauma is nestled at the foot of Mt. Palomar, whose western slope is lined with citrus orchards that provide some income. A small, temporary casino is the focus of a great deal of attention as well as the expansion of the tribal hall, education center and new library! Library: Pauma's AA'Alvikat Library has recently expanded into a new facililty (02) and shares space with Palomar College's Education Center that was established in 1978. The library was started around 1982, and was one of seven tribal libraries set up under San Diego County Library Outreach Division's Indian Library Services Project. The ILSP provided shelving, some furniture, and library materials that included core reference books, Indian and children's books. The library is staffed between ten and eighteen hours a week by Yolanda Espinoza who started in May of 2002 and who is paid by both the tribe and by Palomar College, through a Partnership For Excellence grant - written by and awarded to Dan Arnsan, Palomar Librarian. Hours are flexible, based on Education Center needs. During the summer of 2001, the library had open hours for the first time. A library school graduate intern with the Tribal Library Intern Project from the CSU San Jose/Fullerton Program assisted with the library’s expansion projects. The collection is around 2,500 volumes. Primary users are children. Adult users tend to visit when Palomar classes are held in the library. Like many tribal libraries, Pauma serves as an after school tutoring center and offers Johnson O'Malley literacy tutoring. Thirteen new Del computers are housed in the library/classroom and are networked with internet access, through Palomar College. The library produces a monthly newsletter.
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