Friends of the Kern County Library, Inc.

Seems kind of stark but I love the shelves!

Sometimes it's good to know where you stand ...

We now offer wireless printing! For more details, please visit: https://www.kerncountylibrary.org/wireless-printing/

Check out all of our new books! The library is currently open for indoor and curbside appointments. Our new hours are Tuesday-Thursday from 12-6. We will be clo...sed on Wednesday 11/11 for Veteran's Day. Call us at 661-245-1267 or go to https://www.kerncountylibrary.org/current-library-services/ to schedule your appointment! See more

Artist: Mariusz Stawarski

https://mariuszstawarski.blogspot.com/2010/12/zongler.html

Happy Veteran's Day to all veterans! We greatly appreciate your service.

Everyday is Veterans Day at CALM. All U.S. Veterans, with military ID, are never charged admission to the zoo.

On this day in 1731, the very first library in America opened in Philadelphia. We honor this day with a history lesson and one of our favorite quotes about libr...aries. The idea for a library came about when Benjamin Franklin started a club with about 50 friends so they could debate about politics, morality, and the natural sciences. The group was called the Club of Mutual Improvement. When they disagreed about a topic, they liked to consult books. But books were expensive in those days, so they combined their resources to found a subscription library. They called it the Philadelphia Library Company. The rule was that any "civil gentleman" could browse through the volumes, but only subscribers were allowed to borrow them. The library expanded over the years. Later it moved to Carpenter's Hall, the building where the First Continental Congress met in 1774. Franklin said that after the library opened, "reading became fashionable, and our people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books." - The Writer's Almanac

"The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free." Ta-Nehisi Coates September 30, 1975

Are you still inside your house ?