Press Release Archive FY2008 | San Diego Public Library

Below are press releases from the San Diego Public Library, FY2008, and some special media and City Library-related releases, including some with earlier dates. Some City or governmental press releases may be linked from here. Please see our News & Events page for current press releases and news. For more information, please contact our Media Relations staff.

06/14/08	Author talk and book reading with Carl Nelson (PDF: 78K)
06/14/08	Film Screening of 9 Star Hotel (PDF: 79K)
06/14/08	Film Screening of The Last Conquistador (PDF: 79K)
06/14/08	Film Screening of Africa Sing Me Your Song (PDF: 79K)
06/14/08	Author talk and book reading with Terrence Paupp (PDF: 81K)
06/04/08	Who Signed That?: Signed and Inscribed Books exhibit (PDF: 76K)
06/02/08	Traveling exhibition: "The Age of Progressive Reform: Creating Modern America, 1900-1917" (PDF: 79K)
05/29/08	Author Talk featuring educator and author Laurel Corona (PDF: 79K)
05/28/08	Author talk and book reading with Danalee Buhler (PDF: 78K)
05/21/08	3rd Annual SAY IT LOUD Theatrical Production Benefit (PDF: 81K)
05/16/08	Film Screening of The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (PDF: 79K)
05/16/08	Film Screening of Election Day (PDF: 79K)
05/16/08	Film Screening of Traces of the Trade (PDF: 78K)
05/13/08	Library Exhibition Features Works by Alexia Markarian (PDF: 82K)
05/07/08	Linda Vista Branch Library to celebrate over 65 years of service (PDF: 171K)
05/02/08	Book discussion of Anne Williams' Dessa Rose (PDF: 79K)
05/0208	Author Talk featuring Don Winslow (PDF: 81K)
05/0208	Author Talk featuring Risa Levitt Kohn and Rebecca Moore (PDF: 79K)
04/23/08	Film screening of Women of Islam: Veiling and Seclusion (PDF: 75K)
04/21/08	Library Exhibition Features Works by Eleven Noted San Diego-Area Painters (PDF: 94K)
04/16/08	San Diego Public Library Now Offers Digital eAudiobooks (PDF: 81K)
04/14/08	Film screening of Socheata Poeuv’s New Year Baby (PDF: 81K)
04/14/08	San Diego Public Library Celebrates National Library Week April 13-19 (PDF: 89K)
04/13/08	Book talk and signing with author Baron Birtcher (PDF: 75K)
04/13/08	Book discussion of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (PDF: 75K)
04/04/08	Wangenheim Room Partners with SDSU for Book Arts and Artifacts Exhibition (PDF: 141K)
04/03/08	‘Financial Fitness: Are your Finances in Order?’ presentation at Central Library (PDF: 78K)
04/03/08	Mapping a Nation in Motion: A Brief History of American Travel Cartography (PDF: 92K)
03/18/08	Book Discussion Series: Neo-slave Narratives (PDF: 78K)
03/18/08	Central Library Hosts a Poetry Writing Workshop (PDF: 77K)
03/13/08	Film screening of Caring for Your Parents (PDF: 81K)
03/07/08	Pacific Camerata to Perform in Free Choral Concert at Central Library (PDF: 31K)
03/04/08	Telling the Streets: True Urban Legends (PDF: 30K)
02/26/08	Evening of readings from A Year in Ink (PDF: 28K)
02/26/08	Library Night at the San Diego Latino Film Festival (PDF: 82K)
02/21/08	Lecture on Islam and Muslim Societies (PDF: 76K)
02/21/08	Film screening of Iron Ladies of Liberia (PDF: 26K)
02/15/08	Cellist Charles Curtis to Perform in Free Concert (PDF: 30K)
02/08/08	Cancelled: Author Talk by Camille F. Forbes (PDF: 81K)
02/08/08	Film screening of King Corn (PDF: 75K)
02/08/08	Film screening of Children of Heaven (PDF: 83K)
02/08/08	Award Winning Author, Tracy Kidder to Speak at Central Library (PDF: 81K)
02/05/08	Lecture on Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies (PDF: 78K)
02/04/08	Cancellation: February Meeting of the Board of Library Commissioners (PDF: 15K)
01/31/08	Pianist James Gary to Perform in Free Concert (PDF:31K)
01/31/08	Works by Noted San Diego Artist Robin Bright Featured in Library Exhibition (PDF:84K)
01/31/08	42nd Annual Local Authors Exhibit (PDF:220K)
01/25/08	Palabras de Poder: Rebel Writers from the New Latin@America (PDF:95K)
01/25/08	Joanne Regenhardt to Narrate in Central Library Program about Rachmaninoff’s Life and Music (PDF:31K)
01/23/08	San Diego Libraries Welcome Best-Selling Author David Relin as part of One Book, One San Diego (PDF:37K)
01/23/08	Reading of August Wilson's "Two Trains Running" at Central Library (PDF:30K)
01/18/08	READ/SAN DIEGO Celebrates its 20th Anniversary (PDF:24K)
01/03/08	Guitarist Michael Anthony Nigro to Perform at Central Library (PDF:31K)
12/31/07	San Diego Artist John Abel to Speak in Conjunction with His Retrospective Exhibition (PDF:31K)
12/27/07	Music of La Jolla Composer Robert Fürstenthal at Central Library Program (PDF:29K)
12/21/07	"The Four Cornerstones of Socially Responsible Investing" presentation at Central Library (PDF:79K)
12/21/07	Central Library Hosts "Mother/ Daughter Duets: Relationships in Counterpoint" Workshop (PDF:79K)
12/17/07	Central Library Hosts Presentations on San Diego Opera’s 2008 Season (PDF:34K)
12/17/07	Central Library Announces Free Winter/Spring Concert Series (PDF:46K)
12/12/07	Film Screening of "Banished" at Central Library (PDF:28K)
12/12/07	Library Offers Wide Variety of Electronic Databases for the Public (PDF:40K)
12/03/07	Digital Storytelling Station at the Central Library has new hours (PDF:32K)
11/28/07	Special Schedule for City Libraries December 24 through January 1 (PDF:42K)
11/27/07	Author Don Borchert to speak at the Central Library (PDF:78K)
11/21/07	Library Hosts First Retrospective Exhibition of Works by San Diego Artist John Abel (PDF:29K)
11/15/07	Author Jacqueline Bacon to speak at the Central Library (PDF:80K)
11/09/07	Special Thanksgiving weekend schedule for City Libraries (PDF:41K)
11/09/07	Film Screening of "An Unreasonable Man" at Central Library (PDF:80K)
10/30/07	Author David L. Weaver-Zercher to Speak at the Central Library (PDF:100K)
10/18/07	"Telling the Streets: True Urban Legends" project announced (PDF:78K)
10/18/07	Film screening of Award Winning Environmental Documentary "Libby Montana" (PDF:81K)
10/18/07	Artist Faiya Fredman Exhibition at Pacific Beach/Taylor Library (PDF:31K)
10/12/07	Pianist Miho Gary and Friends to Perform Free Concert at Central Library (PDF:32K)
10/12/07	Molly Wilmot and Michiko Lohorn Concert Series program canceled (PDF:31K)
10/12/07	Teens Invited to Visit Their Libraries and Read During Teen Read Week 2007 (PDF:30K)
10/02/07	Film screening of "Latino Stories of World War II" at Central Library (PDF:30K)
10/02/07	Author Sandra Gurvis speaks about where Vietnam War protesters are today (PDF:28K)
10/02/07	Stories of Service Orientation to recognize Latino Veterans of World War II (PDF:804K)
09/21/07	Joyce Cutler-Shaw Exhibit at North University Community Branch Library (PDF:39K)
09/14/07	Film screening of "Wrestling with Angels" by Oscar winning director Freida Lee Mock (PDF:31K)
09/14/07	San Diego Public Library to host a book discussion on "Mountains Beyond Mountains" (PDF:34K)
09/14/07	Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company partners with Library on "Cowboy Versus Samurai" (PDF:33K)
09/14/07	Jazz and Latin singer Coral MacFarland Thuet and Kamau Kenyatta perform at the Central Library (PDF:29K)
09/13/07	Author Bill Luvaas to speak about his book "A Working Man's Apocrypha" (PDF:28K)
09/13/07	Soprano Mariko Kanamitsu to Perform in Free Concert at Central Library (PDF:33K)
09/13/07	Central Library Hosts Kathryn Lilley, Author of "Dying To Be Thin" (PDF:28K)
09/13/07	Film screening of "Camden 28" at Central Library (PDF:29K)
09/10/07	Public invited to the North University Community Branch Library Grand Opening (PDF:35K)
09/05/07	The Library is searching for local authors who published a book in 2007 (PDF:77K)
08/24/07	City Heights Performance Annnex Announces its Fall Calendar of Events (PDF:500K)
08/24/07	Central Library hosts Jack Getze, author of "Big Numbers" (PDF:28K)
08/24/07	Author Dr. Richard Lederer to Appear at Wangenheim Room Lecture (PDF:139K)
08/23/07	San Diego Chamber Music Society to Play Free Concert (PDF:31K)
08/21/07	"Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature”" (PDF:45K)
08/10/07	"Bibles and Devotional Books through the Ages" exhibit at Central Library (PDF:42K)
08/10/07	Kensington Trio to Perform Free Concert at Central Library (PDF:30K)
08/03/07	Film screening of "Please Vote For Me" (PDF:29K)
08/01/07	Partnership with Asian Story Theater brings stage adaptation of "Dear Miss Breed" (PDF:31K)
07/31/07	KidsRock concert at the Rancho Penasquitos Branch Library (PDF:27K)
07/31/07	"Paws to Read" at the Rancho Penasquitos Branch Library (PDF:28K)
07/31/07	Teen Council Meets at the Rancho Penasquitos Branch Library (PDF:27K)
07/31/07	Rancho Penasquitos Branch Library to host free goth sock puppets workshop (PDF:27K)
07/31/07	"Tales to Tails" Interactive Pet Program at the Rancho Penasquitos Branch Library (PDF:28K)
07/27/07	Author Vincent Bugliosi to speak at Point Loma/Hervey Branch Library (PDF:118K)
07/25/07	City Heights/Weingart Library & Performance Annex announces its Annual Outdoor Summer Arts Festival (PDF:35K)
07/24/07	Free Concert of Piano Trios at Central Library (PDF:29K)
07/20/07	Author Aileen Baron to discusses her latest novel "The Gold of Thrace" (PDF:28K)
07/20/07	Screening of Documentary "Rain in a Dry Land" at Central Library (PDF:28K)
07/20/07	Film screening at Central Library focuses on the Six-Day Rebellion in Newark (PDF:29K)
07/20/07	Film Screening of "Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars" highlights a band formed in a refugee camp (PDF:28K)
07/19/07	Central Library Announces Schedule for Free Fall Concert Series (PDF:90K)
07/13/07	Library to hold Harry Potter "Midnight Madness" celebrations on July 20 (PDF:82K)
07/12/07	Artist Dana Montlack Exhibition at Pacific Beach/Taylor Library (PDF:28K)