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Carlsbad library highlights author events, local author fair growth through 2025

5689916 · August 27, 2025
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Library author team told trustees it hosted 20 author programs from 2023–2025, drew about 1,300 attendees, expanded the local author fair and used funding from the Friends and an endowment to keep events free to the public.

At the Aug. 27 meeting of the Carlsbad City Library Board of Trustees, the library’s author team summarized author programming from 2023 through 2025, including national‑name visits, two local author fairs and funding sources that keep events free to the public.

Ashley Vindon and Liza Blue, representing the author team, told trustees the team has produced 20 author programs between 2023 and 2025 (not including the Crossbred Reads Together series) with roughly 1,300 attendees overall. Funding for author…

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