News August 19, 2015

VIDEO: Santa Monica Public Library Sets Up On Beach:

by mirrormmg

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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