San Diego library offers budget wedding option; Axios, March 31, 2026

Claire Trageser , Axios; San Diego library offers budget wedding option

"An option for weddings on a budget is available at San Diego's downtown library.

The big picture: The library is offering one-hour weekday weddings with up to 12 guests for $500.

Zoom in: Weddings are held on the library's Epstein Bayview Terrace, which has views of the bay and skyline.

• The events have to be pretty bare bones, with no food or drink, no live music, and outdoor vendors limited to one officiant and one photographer.
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• Time slots are on select Mondays and Tuesdays of each month.
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Yes, but: The idea is to provide a budget-friendly option, Misty Jones, the San Diego Public Library director, told Axios."

San Diego Public Library, Father Joe's Villages work to treat addiction with Suboxone; KPBS, October 12, 2023

Thomas Fudge / Science and Technology Reporter

Contributors: Carlos Castillo / Video Journalist,  KPBS; San Diego Public Library, Father Joe's Villages work to treat addiction with Suboxone

"There’s a new partnership aimed at helping people experiencing opioid addiction in San Diego. The School of Social Work at San Diego State University (SDSU) is teaming up with the San Diego Public Library and Father Joe’s Villages to provide access to Suboxone...

By promoting literacy and providing information, the old library mission of public service has evolved. The library has also become a place where those experiencing homelessness use the bathrooms, charge their phones, be dry and safe.

“Libraries have become dynamic and reflexive and respond to the needs of the community in real time as opposed to holding those traditional values and mission, and not expanding and growing with our communities,” said Jennifer Jenkins, deputy director for the San Diego Public Library.

The SDSU project sought to recruit at least 40 people to get Suboxone prescriptions and take it regularly. Urada said she hopes this will be a model for the rest of the library system and perhaps libraries in other states."