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County’s Little Free Libraries Win Outstanding Achievement Award

| 2:13 PM

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San Diego County Library was among this year’s winners of the Little Free Library nonprofit organization Todd H. Bol Awards for Outstanding Achievement.

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Nora Varas with three girls in front of a Little Free Library Credit: Melissa Solis

Supervisor Vargas, Library Open County’s First Little Library in Chula Vista

| 11:15 AM

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County Supervisor Nora Vargas, Chula Vista city officials, County Library officials and others opened a new library at Lauderbach Park in Chula Vista Saturday — a “Little Library” for local families, one of 40 the County plans to help install around the county in the coming months.

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Supervisors Approve Little Libraries Initiative

| 5:33 PM

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County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to create a “little libraries” initiative to boost literacy in low-income and communities of color by giving the people and children living in them more opportunities to have books to read in their homes.