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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 >
November 30-December 7, 2013: SCFOL-Grossmont Barnes & Noble Bookfair:Pick up a voucher at the San Carlos Library or print one up from this website CLICK HERE for Barnes & Noble Vouchers, or order your books on line until December 11, and a portion of the proceeds from your purchase will benefit the San Carlos Branch Library.
January 9, 2014, will be the 40th Anniversary of the opening of the San Carlos Branch Library in San Diego, CA. We are planning... 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... Continue Reading >
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... Continue Reading >
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... Continue Reading >