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Calling all library lovers and book nerds! We are looking for a Book Buyer and Events Coordinator to join our Library Shop SD team. Check us out!

September 11, 2024

Story

During Pride Month, here’s how we’re protecting the right to read for all

June 18, 2024

Oct 01

Event

Library Shop SD’s Annual Matchbook Story Contest

Oct 1 – Nov 15, 2024

Oct 18

Event

Library Storytime with Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen

October 18, 2024 | 10:00 a.m.

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Our Work

We strengthen communities by supporting and advocating for San Diego Public Libraries

Our support is focused on the areas most crucial to San Diegans’ success in school, in the workplace, and in the community.

Social Justice & Equity

Early Childhood

Education & Lifelong Learning

Digital Learning & Access

Economic & Workforce Development

Cultural & Civic Engagement

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The Library Shop is a well-curated nonprofit book & gift shop catering to librarians, library lovers, literary obsessives and book nerds inside the Downtown Central Library. Proceeds support the entire San Diego Public Library System.

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From our community

“Investment in our libraries is a value statement about what we believe is important and about the tools we hope to provide our children as they seek lives of independence in a civic-minded democracy.”

San Diego City Council Member Raul Campillo and Library Foundation SD CEO Patrick Stewart Op-Ed

The San Diego Public Library Foundation is now known as

Library Foundation SD

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Physical | 330 Park Boulevard, 4th Floor
San Diego, CA 92101

Mailing | PO Box 120391
San Diego, CA 92112

The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

Federal Tax ID 33-0959608

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