SD Libraries Will Lose Funding in 2026
Negotiations are still underway before the City of San Diego final 2025-26 fiscal year budget is voted on in May. As a result of the April City Council meetings, the San Diego Public Library system is scheduled to lose $8million in funding. As of July 1, 2025, this loss of funding will result in the closing of all 37 Branch Libraries on Sunday and Monday, which will allow programs and services to remain the same Tuesday-Saturday.
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JANUARY, 2017: Please note that these are not final detailed designs of either the outside or inside of the proposed 25,000 sq.ft. new San Carlos Branch Library, but the working concepts of this project as it now stands. These pictures were supplied by David Pfeifer, Principal Architect of domusstudio, who is the design architect chosen for this project.
This shows the library as seen from Golfcrest. One-half of the parking spaces would be located on the open lot below the corner... 
THERE WERE OVER 100 ENTRIES TO THE Pumpkin Who? CONTEST. CONGRATULATIONS to CONNOR, age 6 whose entry was pulled to win the $26 gift card. During the entire month of October, find the 9 costumes that Pumpkin is trying on in the library! Then pick up an entry form, and draw the costumes on the pumpkins. Entry forms can be picked up in the children’s area beginning October 1, and must be submitted by October 31. All correct ballots... 
Congratulations to the nearly 500 patrons who signed up for the 2016, Read for the Win, Summer Reading Program at the San Carlos Branch Library. Special kudos go to the over 300 readers who met their reading goals and won books and prizes. Keep on reading!
A special thanks go to all of our Wednesday entertainers, and to all of the youth and their parents who joined in the fun. See you next year. 
And the Winner is: Chickens to the Rescue by John Hummelman. The runner up funny book was The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywait. Thanks to all who voted this summer and helped to whittle down the original 16 books to choose San Carlos' picks of the two Funniest Books. 
San Carlos resident, Becky Green, has decided to undertake a momentous task, and is asking for your help. Becky, who is a longtime resident, had an elderly neighbor who often asked if she would like to see his pictures of San Carlos in its early days. As a person who loves local stories and old photos, she always said, "yes," but the visit never came to fruition; her neighbor passed; the pictures are gone; her memory of a lost opportunity... 