San Diego County Library

This article is about the library serving the county of San Diego. For the library serving the city, see San Diego Public Library.

San Diego County Library
Branches33[1]
Access and use
Circulation11.5 million[2]
Population served1,005,838[2]
Members641,276[2]
Other information
DirectorMigell Acosta[3]
Employees327[4]
Websitesdcl.org

The San Diego County Library is a public library system serving San Diego County, California. Any person living in the state is eligible for a free library card. It consists of 33 branches, two bookmobiles, and two 24/7 Library to Go kiosks.[2] Library Journal and Gale (part of Cengage Learning) conferred the 2012 Library of the Year award on the San Diego County Library.[5]

During the 2015–2016 fiscal year the San Diego County Library circulated over 11.5 million books, CDs, DVDs, and other material formats; recorded 5.4 million visits to library branches and hosted 34,890 library programs. It is one of the 25 busiest libraries in the United States as measured by materials circulated. Despite budget cuts, the county library system has increased hours of operation.[6][7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference SDCLLOC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d "San Diego County Library "About Us" Page". Retrieved December 23, 2008.
  3. ^ "San Diego County Library "Director Biography" Page". Retrieved October 6, 2017.
  4. ^ "California Library Statistics 2008 (2006 – 2007 fiscal year) (PDF)" (PDF). Retrieved December 23, 2008.
  5. ^ "2012 Gale/LJ Library of the Year: San Diego County Library, Empowering the Public". lj.libraryjournal.com. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
  6. ^ "San Diego County Library". San Diego County Library.
  7. ^ "County Library Director Wins State Award". San Diego County Library. Retrieved December 17, 2009.