“We have the highest use we’ve ever had right now,” said Marion Moss Hubbard, spokeswoman for the city of San Diego library system. “These tough economic times are bringing more people to us to save on the cost of books and movies, to use our computers and wireless connections to look for work and stay caught up. It’s a free place they can go to relax, learn and enrich their lives.”
It isn’t all relaxing, though. At the Mission Valley Branch Library, 31 people were lined up for the computers before the doors opened on a recent weekday. During the lunch hour, all 19 computers in the one-hour room were taken.
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The central library logged more than 1 million patrons last year.
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[Luz] Felix, who came home to North County from Vermont to study for her licensing exams, said she “practically grew up in the Escondido Library.
“My mom used to take me to the library, and I stayed for hours on the second floor,” she said. “I grew up in a low-income family without money for CDs and books, and the library gave us all those things.”
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