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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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VIDEO: San Diego County Library Breaks Ground on New Lakeside Branch

| 3:43 PM

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County Supervisor Joel Anderson, County library officials, Friends of the Lakeside library, library staff, partners and Lakeside residents gathered Thursday to celebrate the groundbreaking of the County’s new Lakeside library branch.

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County Library Opens Digital, Audio Bookshelves to Local Students

| 4:04 PM

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Thousands of local students in 19 schools and districts have a whole new world of digital and audio books to read and listen to, thanks to the County Library — and they won’t even need a library card.

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Looking for a Good Book? Check Out 2020’s Top 10 Checkouts

| 9:58 AM

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Looking for a good book? A great movie, e-book, audio-book, kid-book? There’s no better place to start than with the County Library’s Top 10 lists of books and materials readers and movie lovers checked out in 2020!

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County Libraries Move to Door-side Service

| 1:42 PM

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With the state’s new COVID-19 Stay Home order in effect, the County of San Diego’s 33 libraries have moved to door-side service to help county residents practice social distancing and still enjoy all the library books, digital magazines, music, movies and other fare they love.

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New, Improved Lakeside Library to Start Construction in Spring

| 11:03 AM

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In a few months, the County of San Diego will start a new chapter for Lakeside residents and their library, starting construction on a new library three times larger than the current branch, with a community room for events, a bookstore and large spaces for children and teens.

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County Libraries Move to Digital to Help Stop Coronavirus

| 1:09 PM

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County library branches are going to curb-side pickup to help county residents practice social-distancing to stop the spread of coronavirus and still enjoy all the library books, digital magazines, music, movies and other fare they love.