Online County Library Catalog
Hours
San Diego County Library System
Day | Hours |
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Mon Tue, Wed Thu Fri, Sat Sun | Closed 10-6 12-8 10-5 1-5 |
For possibly more up to date hours, see the official Fallbrook Library hours, and also G. Moxon's Fallbrook Library.
San Diego County Library System
The Catalog of Books is online for all branches, and will tell you whether a given book is in a given branch of the library. You can even request a given title using the web!
The San Diego County Library System is funded by a dedicated 0.43% of county property tax revenues for 75% of its budget, and gets general fund revenues for the other 25% of the budget.
Like many of the libraries in California, when the state of California took property tax revenue from county and local governments in the early 1990s, the library budget in San Diego county was reduced significantly then. Further, San Diego County is significantly below the statewide average spending on libraries.
Now that better economic times for the state of California have returned, the county Board of Supervisors have set 5 strategic goals for its long-term library plans:
It is interesting to note that libraries are unique among the county departments in that volunteers provide a significant amount of labor and donors provide a funds.
Source: FBVN, 2/12/98, 5, 8; San Diego County Library System.
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Last update: 11 August 2000.