During Little Free Library Week, May 14-20, San Diego County Library was among this year’s winners of the Little Free Library nonprofit organization Todd H. Bol Awards for Outstanding Achievement.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to create a little libraries initiative to boost literacy in low-income communities of color by giving people and children more opportunities to have books in their homes. The SDLC currently has 45 Little Free Libraries in the region, with 56 more on their way.
Little libraries are mailbox-like structures put up in communities to create neighborhood book exchanges where people can freely borrow or leave books for others to read.
SDCL is working in partnership with the San Diego Council on Literacy, other public library jurisdictions in the region, collective Friends of the Library groups, and local non-profits and volunteer groups to implement Little Free Libraries throughout the county. Free Little Libraries are at the following locations in your community:
South Bay:
Sweetwater Community Garden, 5354 Sweetwater Road, Bonita
Sweetwater Summit Regional Park, 3218 Summit Meadow Road, Bonita
Heritage Park, 1381 E. Palomar Street, Chula Vista
Lauderbach Park, 333 Oxford Street, Chula Vista
SBCS – Ken Lee Building, 430 F Street, Chula Vista
SBCS – Ken Lee Building, 430 F Street, Chula Vista
Tiffany Park, 1713 Elmhurst Avenue, Chula Vista
Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, 2721 Monument Road, San Diego
Smythe Elementary School, 1880 Smythe Avenue, San Ysidro
East County:
Christmas Circle Community Park, 700 Christmas Circle Drive, Borrego Spring
Lake Morena County Park, 2550 Lake Morena Drive, Campo
Flinn Springs County Park, 14787 Old Highway 80, El Cajon
Vallecito County Park, 37349 Great Southern Overland Stage Route of 1849, Julian
William Heise County Park, 4945 Heise Park Road, Julian
Louis A. Stelzer County Park, 11470 Wildcat Canyon Road, Lakeside
Pine Valley Clubhouse, 28890 Old Highway 80, Pine Valley
Pine Valley County Park, 28810 Old Highway 80, Pine Valley
Dos Picos County Park, 17953 Dos Picos Park Road, Ramona
For more Little Free Library locations, please visit www.littlefreelibrary.org.
