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City of SB Appoints New Library Director
The City of Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the appointment of Brandon Beaudette as the new Library Director, effective September 22, 2025. A dedicated public servant with over 25 years of experience in city government, Brandon brings…
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Your Library Card: The One Card to Rule them All!
We’re celebrating national library card sign up month with unique new designs and a community event!
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Happy Birthday, Children’s Library!
Celebrate 10 Years of the Children’s Library at a Community Birthday Party on September 20.
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Santa Barbara Public Library Offers Volunteer Tutor Training for Reading Intervention Program
The Santa Barbara Public Library will host a three-session tutor training September 11th, 14th & 18th from 5:30-8:00 p.m. for volunteers interested in supporting struggling students through the SBPL OG Readers Tutoring Program at the…
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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Eastside Library
Santa Barbara Public Library invites residents to celebrate 50 years of literacy, learning, and community building at the Eastside Library on Saturday, September 16, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Join us for crafts, activities, food…
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SBPL’s Grant-Funded Parks Pass Project Helps Locals Explore Outdoors
The majority of Library programs and services would not be possible without grant or private funding. Luckily, Santa Barbara Public Library has a great track record of securing outside funding, especially for grant projects. In addition to…
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Santa Barbara Public Library Announces 2023 Santa Barbara Reads Title
Santa Barbara Public Library is pleased to announce the selection of Isabel Allende’s award-winning historical fiction novel A Long Petal of the Sea as the featured title for Santa Barbara Reads 2023. 
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Santa Barbara Public Library Invites Teens to Make & Display Their Art with Create & Curate: Teen Art Workshop
Teen artists and creatives in grades 7-12  are invited to the Eastside Library to create their own unique pieces of art, which the Library will display in the Faulkner Side Galleries for September and October. This program is a chance…
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SBPL Invites Public Input on Faulkner Galleries
Santa Barbara Public Library presented a plan as part of the FY24 budget cycle to align rentals for art exhibition space in the Faulker Galleries with City policies on cost recovery, to maintain consistency with policies for similar…
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Call for Artists for Library Curated Exhibition in Santa Barbara Public Library’s Main Faulkner Gallery for Pride & Joy Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Public Library invites local artists to participate in an exhibition in the Faulkner Gallery during October 2023 as part of a Exhibition in coordination with Pride & Joy Santa Barbara, a pop up event creating a gayborhood…
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SBPL Chats with Santa Barbara’s 10th Poet Laureate Melinda Palacio
The City of Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Program was established in 2005 to inspire and remind the local community of the power and beauty of poetry and the spoken word. SBPL serves as the “home” of the Poet Laureate by facilitating free,…
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Santa Barbara Public Library Invites Volunteers to the Fall Session of Adult Literacy Tutor Training
Make a difference in someone’s life — become a Volunteer Adult Literacy Tutor at Santa Barbara Public Library!
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