2019-2020 Fiscal Year: SCFOL Volunteer Hour Total
During the 2019-2020 fiscal year, July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020, SCFOL Volunteers donated 3406 hours to the San Carlos Branch Library. We thank them for all that they do.
The first half of the year started off with a bang. Fifty-five active SCFOL volunteers donated 2229 hours putting together very successful SCFOL monthly Used Book Sales (SCFOL's main income source), keeping meeting, membership and financial records, scheduling and setting up monthly art exhibits, representing... Continue Reading >
Membership Benefit: Most hard back books purchased at Friday Pre-sales are now only $1. Sign up to become or renew your SCFOL Membership at our Book Sales. From 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. on the Friday afternoon before our First Saturday of the month Used Book Sales, in the Winer Family Community Room & Art Gallery of the San Carlos Branch Library, Friends of the Library MEMBERS ONLY will be able to purchase fiction and media materials. This is our way of... 
The biggest and best used book sale is at the San Carlos Branch Library on the first Saturday OF EVERY MONTH, from 9:30-3:00. Fiction can be found in the Community Room, non-fiction books are outside. Every month, approximately 500-600 boxes, containing about 20-25 books each (that's 10,000-15,000 titles), are available for your reading pleasure. In 2016, we offered about about 100,000 titles during the year. Every month, 50% of the fiction titles and 60% of the non-fiction are first... 
SCFOL annually donates between $20,000-$30,000 to the San Carlos Branch Library. Memberships, donations and our monthly used book sales are SCFOL's primary revenue sources. Friends' memberships and donations are tax deductible as a charitable contributions. INDIVIDUAL LIFE Memberships are only $250. Join at this level before October 30, to have your name added to the current year's Honor Wall plaque which is on display in the Winer Family Community Room and Art Gallery. Since SCFOL's founding in 1982, 120... 
One Book, One San Diego is our region's premier literary program, presented in partnership between KPBS and over 80 public libraries, service organizations and educational institutions. Now in its 13th year, the purpose is to bring our community closer together through the shared experience of reading and discussing the same book. See https://www.kpbs.org/one-book/
The 2019 ADULT OBOSD selection, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, is a novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy.In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development... 