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...
Continue Reading
Click Library Shop to learn about all they have to offer. There's more to them than just books.
Shop Hours: Mon-Tues - 11:30 am - 5:30 pm and Wed-Sat - 10:30 am - 5:30 pm
The Library Shop currently offers $5.95 Flat Rate Shipping.
The Library Shop is not just a well-curated gift and book shop. It is a non-profit book & gift store located in the courtyard of the Downtown Central Library sponsored by the FSDPL & the SDPL Foundation. As the Downtown... 
We welcome all SCFOL members to consider volunteering and assisting us in making our monthly USED BOOK SALES bigger and better than ever. Revenue from SCFOL book sales is the major source of funds needed to purchase books, programs and equipment for our branch library. In 2024, about 75 dedicated SCFOL Volunteers donated 4426 hours to the San Carlos Branch Library! We thank them one and all.
Contact SCFOL Volunteer Chair Sue Dennis at 
The numbers are in for the 2024 Summer Reading Program for the San Carlos Branch. We had 1190 registrations and 944 finishers. Congratulations to all. A whopping 952 youth and their families attended the 8 special summer programs offered this year at the San Carlos Branch Library. Thank you all for your attendance. See you again next year. 
This year’s annual SCFOL General Membership meeting will be held Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from 4:00-5:30 pm, in the San Carlos Branch Library’s Winer Family Community Room & Art Gallery. All SCFOL members are invited to attend. Find out what's happening in 2025 at the San Carlos Branch Library.
The agenda will include:
SCFOL President Bill Bischoff: Introduction of guests, new 2024 SCFOL Life Members (Sandi Calabough Sue Dennis, and Lisa King), and speaker.
SPEAKER: Past President of SCFOL & FSDPL,... 
Congratulations to the 2023-2024 outstanding SCFOL volunteers, Marcy Andersen, Lara Ferguson, Leesa Mouw, and Kathy Ruiz. They were recognized at the June 8, 2024 FSDPL Annual Meeting. These wonderful volunteers have given freely, many hours of their time and talents to SCFOL. As of June 11, 2024, Andersen and Ruiz have also been elected to the SCFOL Board of Directors.
Marcy Andersen stepped into the position of SCFOL Officer and Board Secretary. Evie McGhee has retired from those positions after... 