SD Libraries Will Lose Funding in FY 2025-2026 San Diego Budget
Negotiations are still underway before the City of San Diego's final 2025-26 fiscal year budget is voted on June 10. It will not be finalized until signed by San Diego's Mayor Todd Gloria on June 15, 2025
As a result of previous City Council budget meetings, the San Diego Public Library system is scheduled to lose $8million in funding. As of July 1, 2025, this loss of funding may result in the closing of all 37 Branch Libraries on Sunday...
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The 2016 Annual Report for the San Diego Public Library Foundation is now available. Read about the growing impact the San Diego Library system has on our San Diego Communities. The number of children attending the Summer Reading Program has nearly doubled since 2011; our libraries are the region's top provider of free educational and cultural programs serving 455,700 people (double since 2010); 730,000 have a San Diego Public Library card (up 13 % in 6 years); e-Circulation is up... 
Helping us “Build for the Future,” will be the San Diego Public Library System’s new Director, Misty Jones, who, following the July 1 retirement of Deborah Barrows, has served as its Interim Director. Misty has extensive leadership experience in all aspects of library management, and played an essential role in the decision making process for the design and function of our new San Diego Central Library. She has twelve years of library management experience, holds a master’s degree in... 
The new San Diego Central Library opened in September, 2013. I am serving on the Oversight Committee for the Library Shop at the new downtown site. The Library Shop is a museum-style gift shop as well as serving as a neighborhood bookstore--featuring an eclectic selection of interesting new titles including contemporary fiction, history, philosophy, and humor. Greeting cards and a large selection of paper ephemera are also be part of the mix. In addition, works by local artists and craftspeople are being offered.
The Library Shop... 