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Santa Barbara Public Library expands hands-on sustainability programs under state grant
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Library staff described a two-year, state-funded sustainability program that offers sewing, gardening, repair clinics, a circulating "library of things" and a pilot tool-lending collection.
Paige Sundstrom, the adult programming librarian at Santa Barbara Public Library, told the Sustainability Committee on April 3 that the library's Sustainably SVPL series — funded by the Sustainable California Libraries grant from the California State Library — has offered two years of hands-on classes and community events to teach mending, gardening and sustainable cooking.
The grant-funded program, Sundstrom said, aims “to fund programs, educational initiatives, lectures, etcetera, that promote sustainable lifestyles for communities.” The library used the first grant year…
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