Don Barclay, president of the Friends of the Merced County Library, accepts a check from Mary Camper of the Merced Rotary Club for $5,000 as a donation to the Mary Hofmann Teen Center. By SUSAN WALSH.

During the opening, Merced County Librarian Amy Taylor welcomed those in attendance and gave a moving tribute to Mary Hofmann — the late school librarian and community activist for whom the center is ...