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Children use the Logan Heights Branch Library's early literacy computers with special programs for young readers. Staff report heavy, steady use of the library's computers by all ages.

The Logan Heights library has multiple meeting spaces for the community.

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San Diegans love their library! That is why library use nationally and here in San Diego is at an all-time high. See the NBC story to the right on increased library use nationwide or read THIS San Diego Union-Tribune story on how tough economic times have increased traffic at San Diego's libraries.

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Logan Heights Branch Library

The new Logan Heights Branch Library's community room was packed to capacity as community members and project supporters gathered to open the new branch on December 11, 2009. The new, two-story, 25,000 square foot branch library replaces a 3,967 square-foot facility built in 1927.

In a unique joint-use arrangement with the San Diego Unified School District, the library shares space with Logan Elementary School and Memorial Preparatory for Scholars and Athletes and is adjacent to King Chavez Academy of Excellence. The Library offers incredible resources to students, including special library access by school faculty and students before open hours and school priority for all meeting rooms, labs and seminar rooms.

For a look at the features and architectural richness of the new facility, click the video below:

The new library will be supported with a generous endowment gift from Gracia Molina de Pick. “The newly established Gracia Molina de Pick & Richard Allen Pick Endowment Fund at the San Diego Public Library Foundation will provide a lasting source of revenue to support a wide range of needs at this new library,” said Council President Ben Hueso at the opening.

Other private library supporters of the library include Ann and Phil White, Judy Eby, Lloyd and Caroline de Llamas, CP Kelco, Las Patronas, the La Jolla Debutante Ball Committee, the Logan Heights Friends of the Library and The Samuel & Katherine Weaver French Fund.

Logan Heights Branch Library Volunteer Named San Diego's Outstanding Youth Volunteer

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Fifteen-year-old Armando Herrera, a dedicated volunteer and youth leader at the Logan Heights Branch Library, has been named San Diego's 2011 Outstanding Youth Volunteer by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Armando began shelving books and helping patrons at the new Logan Heights Branch Library in February 2010 and quickly discovered a passion for helping others. Within several months he was heavily involved as a youth leader and regularly giving back to his community and the new library which had become a second home for the neighborhood’s youth. Read the full story.