The Scripps Ranch Friends of the Library (SRFOL) exists to support the operation of the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center. The SRFOL, through volunteer services, assists library patrons, hosts special events, operates a used book store (Grace's Book Nook), and provides financial support for acquisitions and community activities.

The SRFOL is an officially chartered, §501(c)(3) non-profit, educational organization. As such, donations made to the SRFOL are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law under Internal Revenue Service tax regulations.

Please feel free to explore this web site to learn about the services provided by the SRFOL and by the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center itself.

In accordance with City of San Diego budgetary constraints, 20 branches of the San Diego Public Library system, including the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center, will be closed on all Mondays starting September 15, 2025, and continuing into the indefinite future.

For library patrons in urgent need of library services on Mondays, the following 17 branches of the San Diego Public Library system will be open for patron needs on Mondays:

Detailed descriptions and updated information about monthly events and activities scheduled to be held at the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center is available by clicking on the link below:

November 2025 Events and Activities

A printable monthly calendar is available that shows all events scheduled to be held at the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center. Please click on the link below:

November 2025 Calendar

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There has been a change in the Book Discussion Group meeting/topic schedule due to lack of availability of the original October selection, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Marukami. Norwegian Wood will be discussed in December. Thus for October's meeting the traditional Potluck Meeting, at which books are chosen for the upcoming year, will be held in the library's Seminar Room on Thursday, October 23, at 12:30 pm. Please bring a dish to share, and come prepared to suggest up to 3 of your favorite titles (please make sure that there are at least 12 copies in the library system, check to see how many "holds" the title has, and make a note of the number of pages). New members are, of course, welcome!

November's selection is Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris. Please note that the November meeting will be on the 13th due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

For the December meeting, the group will be discussing Norwegian Wood on Thursday, December 4. This book was originally scheduled to be discussed in October; but had to be delayed due to the lack of availability of the book in the library. Also, another change from the normal 4th Thursday meeting date, is due to holiday season conflicts for the library's Seminar Room. The meeting date will be Thursday, December 4.

Copies of all books to be discussed will available at the library's circulation desk. Click here for Book Discussion Group details and Meeting Topics assigned.

Starting September 15, 2025, and continuing into the indefinite future, the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center will be closed on all Mondays. This closure affects not just library services but all programs, events, and activities previously scheduled to happen on Mondays. The closure is a result of City of San Diego budgetary constraints. Accordingly, starting September 15, 2025, except for City of San Diego holidays, the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library is open to the public during the following hours:

• Holiday Closures: The Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center will be closed for the following official holiday periods:
  
  

  Day(s)	Date(s)	Holiday
  Tuesday	November 11, 2025	Veterans Day
  Thursday	November 27, 2025	Thanksgiving Day
  Friday	November 28, 2025	Thanksgiving Day (observed)
  9 days	December 24, 2025 — January 1, 2026	End of Year & New Year's Day

  
  
  
• Library Staff Changes: SRFOL welcomes Zeina Guoin, our new Branch Manager! She has previously served in several library systems and has been with the San Diego Public Library for the past 11 years, including positions at the Central library and as Branch Manager at the Serra Mesa Library. Zeina is multilingual in Arabic, French, and English and particularly enjoys nonfiction, especially history and travel. We look forward to working with Zeina, as well other new staff members Robert, "John," Cindy (who previously worked at our branch), and Phoua, plus returning staff members Luis and "IT." A new Youth Services Librarian, Sarah Banks, very recently joined our library staff as well. On your next visit to the library, please consider introducing yourself and greeting our new and returning staff members.
  
  
• Pleasure of Your Company Concerts for 2025-2026: All concerts are concluded or canceled for the remainder of 2025 until the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center reopens in the Summer of 2026 or possibly even the Fall of 2026.
  
  
• The Entire Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center: The latest official word is that our library will close sometime in February 2026 and remain closed for at least 6-8 months during which time deferred maintenance work, including replacement of the roof and the HVAC system, will be performed. We have also been informed that work on the lower parking lot, which has been suspended for the past year-and-a-half, might resume in February. Patrons should note that our library will be completely closed to all access by the public and by library staff while the maintenance work is being performed. We have been told that no library material (books, DVDs, CDs, magazines, equipment, etc) will be removed from the library prior to its closure—nor will any library material be permitted to be delivered to or to be removed from the library nor will meeting rooms be available during our library's closure.
  
  
• Parking Lot Expansion Project: As library patrons will attest, little to no work has been done on the library's parking lot expansion project for over a year. The City has stated that work on the parking lot will resume in October, November, December 2025. Well, now they're saying February 2026; but, of course, this is the same City which stated the lot expansion would be finished a year ago. The City also tells us that the expanded lot—minus the previously-promised traffic light at the expanded parking lot's entrance/exit—will be completed when the library reopens when the HVAC/roof replacement project completes, which could be as late as Summer—or maybe Autumn—2026.
  
  

While parking at the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library continues to be a challenge, there is now finally some progress to report! However, there is bad news as well as good . . .

We had been informed that work on the parking lot expansion project was expected to resume in the spring of 2025. It wasn't. The contractor is currently working with the City to obtain permit approval for a large retaining wall that is planned, as the enlarged lower lot will expand into the adjacent canyon. During that down time, there are other active projects that will make use of this window of time while the library parking expansion is on hold.

The $2.1 million Miramar Gate valve replacement has been underway for many months, which is the explanation for the cessation of parking lot work beginning last spring. Interestingly, an outlet valve for the nearby Lake Miramar reservoir is located in our library's parking lot (who knew?), and a new valve that meets current standards—as well as a vault to house it—are being installed.

On May 20, 2025, we received the following status information regarding the parking lot expansion project from the City of San Diego Deputy Director of Library Operations:

Phase 1: Top Lot As you're already aware, the top parking lot was renovated and additional spaces were added, which include ADA access, and Electric Vehicle dedicated spaces. The number of original parking spaces were 25 and now the top lot has 34 parking stalls, a gain of 9 parking spaces. Phase 2: Lower Lot The bottom lot is proposed to be expanded over the canyon to add additional parking. As communicated to me by the Engineering & Capital Projects Department, due to unforeseen conditions of the soils at the bottom of the canyon additional earthwork is required to sit the wall/supporting structure on appropriate soil. Geotechnical work called for removal of soil at a 5 ft depth, however, the rock foundation was found to be lower requiring 10 ft of earthwork, more grading work, importing of materials, and additional time is required. If not addressed, this could lead to settlement and safety issues in the future. The lower lot has 45 parking stalls, and an additional 39 are part of the design proposal. The Engineering & Capital Projects Department is working on an estimate for the additional items which will add to the cost of the project. Once we find out what the total is and the feasibility of obtaining those funds, we'll share with you next steps.

The bottom line is that the Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Parking Lot "Expansion" Project has, for the past year, reduced the number of available parking spaces from 70 to 34 — a number which we imagine will persist into the indeterminate future. Considering that the library is scheduled to close entirely in September 2025 (now estimated to begin sometime in February 2026) for 6-8 months, it is not unreasonable to assume that the already 1-year-delayed parking lot expansion project will be delayed for another year.

Directly affecting our library, the long-awaited fire suppression system replacement project began in April 2025 and was estimated to take 14 weeks to complete. The first phase of the project necessitated the closure of the Community Room, Seminar Room, and Grace's Book Nook for all of the month of April plus the first 3 weeks of May. Subsequent phases caused each affected section of the main part of the library to be inaccessible in turn to the public and the library staff. The good news is that the fire suppression system replacement project has been completed. Now the very much needed library roof and HVAC replacement are anticipated to follow, we're told, starting at the end of December 2025 (this starting date has been incrementally extended to February 2026). The library roof and HVAC replacement is definitely good news for our 32 year-old library building—especially in view of the City's budgetary woes.

The bad news is that we have been advised that this deferred maintenance work will necessitate closure of the library for 6 to 8 months. If this sounds excessive to you, that was also the reaction of the Scripps Ranch Friends of the Library (SRFOL) Board; but such is the cost of progress. The Friends and our dedicated library staff understand how important the library is in the lives of community members. Stay tuned . . .

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Scripps Miramar Ranch Library Center
10301 Scripps Lake Drive
San Diego, CA 92131