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Seasons of Alyssa

My friend Alyssa loves the library. In fact, she loves it so much that our friends held her surprise 29th birthday celebration at our local Pacific Beach/Taylor Library branch.

Alyssa is a big fan of musicals, and her favorites are Les Miserables and Rent. With help from our friendly librarians, we were able to borrow the conference room in the library and put on a performances of her favorite songs with custom Alyssa and Todd lyrics (Todd was her precious senior dog). Our friends worked hard to write, choreograph, and rehearse the dance numbers for weeks.

The library was the perfect place to celebrate Alyssa. We brought her in with the pretext of returning some books, and since most of our friends frequent the PB branch, she didn't think twice. The conference room had chairs, a projector, and a bulletin board where we could hang our "Playbills."

It was a beautiful celebration that left Alyssa feeling loved and all of us feeling grateful for our public services. And the cherry on top? Nearly all of us walked out with some new books to read!

Inter Library Loan

I was looking for some music books so that I could use them for research. I couldn't find these books at my local library. However, I got lucky through the inter library loan program. One of these books came from a library in San Diego and the other book came from San Francisco. That's right, just because I requested that book, the library in San Francisco sent this book to the County Library in Encinitas. I was so impressed. Months later, I'm still impressed!

Family oriented fun atmosphere

Hi, i've been attending the san diego libraries in imperial beach and bonita.I've also visited and frequented the chula.Vista libraries, we've lived in chula.Vista and imperial beach and san ysidro .The libraries have been a great source of fun with the different clubs for kids.Reading clubs and stem and art and crafts that my daughter loved growing up.I also enjoy renting the dvds.It's such a relaxing place and good environment for kids.Lots of nice books. Helpful staff.Thank you again love the libraries. We came from a different state.And the library there doesn't even hold a candle to these libraries.