FRESH LOOK: After two years of construction and chain link fences, Santa Barbara Public Library is back with a brand new community plaza. | Credit: Ingrid Bostrom The doors to the Faulkner Gallery at ...

Nostalgia tends to run deep for simpler times, when life unfolded much slower than the leaps and bounds of our current tech-fueled pace. At the same time, today’s technology makes it much easier to ...

The Santa Barbara Public Library has announced plans to transition to an independent catalog system. It will no longer be a member of the Black Gold Library Cooperative system, which includes ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The Santa Barbara Library will open its long awaited Michael Towbes Library Plaza with a festive event November 3. An insider preview look is taking place Friday. Santa Barbara ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.– The Santa Barbara Central Library will remain closed until Apr. 4 to complete the last phase of construction. Those with checked out library materials will have the due ...

“Most libraries would have just closed, or moved everything off-site,” said Library Services Manager Molly Wetta, who has worked in Santa Barbara for the past six years. Wetta remembers helping her ...

Santa Barbara Public Library invites children, teens and adults to celebrate reading this summer by participating in the annual Summer Reading Challenge, Treasured Tales. Starting June 6, community ...

The City of Santa Barbara's construction projects has progressed enough at Central Library that the community will have access to the children's library beginning Friday, November 18. The children's ...