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News August 19, 2015

VIDEO: Santa Monica Public Library Sets Up On Beach:

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Santa Monica Public Library reference library Jeff Kaplan.

The Santa Monica Public Library has been setting up shop on the shore and signing out books to literature hungry beachgoers at a series of five ‘pop up‘ libraries that began June 26 and concludes later this month.

The Mirror visited the pop-up on the beach at Dorothy Green Park (where Ocean Park Blvd ends) on Saturday, Aug. 15.

The final pop-up will be Friday, Aug. 28 at the Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Hwy.

For more information about this free public program, visit smpl.org/beach or call the Reference Services Department at 310.434.2608.

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