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Limitless Books and Resources

Our weekly San Diego library visits were a highlight of my childhood.

Now we are blessed with services like Link+, Circuit, and the Interlibrary Loan so we can borrow materials from all over the USA! In addition Ebooks, audio books, and digital magazines give everyone access to resources regardless of income or location.

And it's all free.

Thank you SDCL for improving our lives one book at a time.

Reading for a lifetime

I have had the good fortune to live on multiple continents and have had to endure the challenge and the successes of those opportunities. What a wonder it was to me as a young child to find that library books were available everywhere I lived. What a wonder it was to comprehend that where library books were available there would also be curiosity, kindness, peace (shh, its the library). Today the library is so much more than books, the range of media, learning and socialization that libraries afford is peerless in that all are welcome. I can learn a foreign…

Listening to a native Spanish speaker read English

About four years ago, I was trying to figure out a way to listen to a Spanish speaking 5th grader with suboptimal English language skills read books in English. She chose the series, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". The student would check out the book from the El Cajon Public Library; I would check it out on line using my library card. Then, I would call her in the evening on the phone that belonged to her Mother or Father and would listen to her read. This worked better than I ever dreamed it would! She could read for 45…