THANK YOU for your Memberships and Donations
We wish to THANK everyone who has ever become a Member of the San Carlos Friends of the Library. We also express our appreciation and gratitude for those who have sent us donations in honor or memory of others. SCFOL funds are used to purchase new materials, programs, and equipment that enhance the patron experience at the current San Carlos Branch Library and that of the new proposed Branch.
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The San Carlos Branch Library staff, lead by our Managing Librarian David Ege and Youth Services Librarian Erin Moore, do an outstand job of keeping patrons updated on the latest materials, activities and programs available at our branch and offered by the San Diego Public Library system. David spoke at the November 13th annual meeting of the San Carlos Friends of the Library and highlighted for those present what the major and/or unique SCBL events were in 2024. They... 
April 2 - May 5, Katherine (Katie) Kennedy, an emerging La Mesa artist, will have her unique oil paintings on display in the Winer Family Community Room & Art Gallery of the San Carlos Branch Library. Kennedy’s works are a visual storytelling of our everyday surroundings. Join us with Katie on Saturday, April 19, noon-2, for her Artist Reception and learn more about this lovely young woman and her unique artistic expression of our modern-day society in the 2020s.
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July 2-August 30, we are delighted to have Luz Shepard and Elsa Orozco Toops, with their award winning and wide-ranging artistic talents, decorating the walls of the Winer Family Community Room & Art Gallery of the San Carlos Branch Library. They will discuss their unique techniques at their July 19, noon-2 pm Artist Reception.
Luz Shepard's artistic talents were obvious as early as kindergarten. Showing a maturity beyond her years, Luz's early drawings of people were more life-like than the... 
Many, many THANKS to our SD District 7 Councilperson Raul Campillo for securing, in the City's Fiscal-Year-2025 budget, $4.7million in funding for the new San Carlos Branch Library.
Campillo in his newsletter says, "This $4.7m, together with existing funding that I secured in years past, represents the completed funding necessary to perform design, permitting, and initial construction activities such as removal of hazardous material and contaminated soils. I’m so proud to deliver this funding for the San Carlos community, but I... 