May 1: 17th Annual Student “Writing for Literacy” Grand Award Ceremony.
On March 19, about 90 people filled the San Carlos Branch Library to hear the essays and congratulate this year's local San Carlos winners of the Annual Writing for Literacy Library Essay Contest. This annual contest is open to all students, public, private, parochial and home schooled, in grades 4, 8 & 10, who attend a school served by the San Diego Public Library system. The San Carlos area schools participating this year submitted, 278 essays which were individually read and judged by... Continue Reading >
Lesley Frazier and her family moved to San Carlos in October of 1980. In the spring of 1982, then Managing Librarian Ruth Gardner decided that the San Carlos Branch Library, which opened on January 9, 1974, needed a Chapter of the Friends of the Library. She invited some of the branch’s regular patrons and volunteers to join. Lesley became a charter member and the first editor of the SCFOL Newsletter. Betty Sherman was the first President of SCFOL. One of the first activities... 
We asked if anyone in the Navajo Community knew the story of how, who, where and when the San Carlos Branch Library began. The call went out, and local Community Leader and author, Toni Noel, responded. Here is Toni’s story of how our Library’s site was chosen.
Toni tells us, "Late in 1969 or early in 1970 I was appointed Library Chairman of the San Carlos Community Council, which was the predecessor to the current community planning group. A local mother... 
HAPPY 40th ANNIVERSARY TO THE SAN CARLOS BRANCH LIBRARY
The Friends of the San Carlos Library see the occasion of the Branch’s 40th Anniversary as an opportunity to recommit themselves to the future and the building of a new Library and Community Center. I would like to take this opportunity to share with you the SCFOL’s vision for the future.
Recently, someone asked a group from the San Carlos library why the community has not been more visible in making its desire... 
The following Corporations or Individuals have donated funds or services to help offset the cost of the 40th Anniversary year celebrations:
Domusstudio Architecture: Principals Lew Dominy, AIA & David Pfeifer, AIA
Mission Publishing Group, LLC: Jim Madaffer, Publisher
Robert Hotz: RadioActive Media
Christopher Hotz & Jason Benesch: Website Design
Tom & April Boling: SCFOL Life Members
Margrette Carr: SCFOL Life Member
Michael A. Lugo, AIA, CCS, CSI
Anonymous Family: SCFOL Life Members & donors of Rutherford’s Children’s Area
Additional Donors: Copy-It Grossmont, COSTCO La Mesa, CVS San Carlos, Charlotte Germundson,... 