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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The SDPL's January, 2022 Winter Reading Challenge (WRC) was Read for a Better World. This annual program was for readers of all ages thtat encouraged readers to explore diversity empathy, and action through literature.
This year, there were 7853 Participants and 6175 Finishers! That is a 78% completion rate! CONGRATULATIONS!
Last year we had 6,827 participants and 4192 Finishers (61% completion rate) and our program ran for 2 months instead of the usual one month.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 continued to be a year that would challenge the ingenuity of our Library staff. At the ZOOM November 17, 2021 annual SCFOL General Membership meeting, SCBL Managing Librarian, David Ege, gave us an update on the status of our new SCBL and reviewed how his staff was able to rise to the COVID-19 challenge. Below is the outline of his presentation.
· Saturday, March 14, 2020 – Last Day open to the public
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The SRP 2021 Stats are in! In summary, we had 15,986 participants (up 21% from 2020) and 10,238 Finishers (up 27% from 2020). Our Community Read-a-Thon final number came in at 261,188. Thanks to the SDPL Foundation for sponsoring and donating $10,000 to youth programming and to all who encouraged your patrons to keep reading to help reach this goal. 