Stop by and get FREE wildflower seeds

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLLINATORS We’re working with libraries across the nation to share the importance of protecting pollinators and increasing wildflowers in our community. With #PlantWildFlowers, we want to spread awareness about the importance of helping our food-producing friends all over. It’s easy! It starts with you! Now you can plant wildflowers in your backyard […]

Fine Arts Tour at Beale Memorial Library

WELCOME to the Beale Memorial Library. We invite you to view an important collection of fine art placed throughout the building. The selection of these works, by 19th and 20th century California artists, was begun in 1987 and completed in 1995. The collection was made possible through funds raised by the Kern County Library Foundation.* These […]

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten

Read Together, Be Together A Literacy Program for Pre-readers The Kern County Library is excited to offer a fun, easy, and FREE program that promotes reading to newborns, infants, and toddlers. We encourage parents to bond with their children through reading.  Our goal is to help parents understand the importance of literacy even before children […]

2021 Read – A Dream Called Home

The Primary Title The One Book Project is a community-wide reading and discussion project inviting everyone to read and discuss the themes of immigration and assimilation. About the Primary Title As an immigrant in an unfamiliar country, with an indifferent mother and abusive father, Reyna had few resources at her disposal, but she is determined to […]

Job Seeking Strategies

Job Seeking Strategies Explore strategies that can help you land a job of your dreams – or works that simply provide means. Learn different ways to get your foot in the door of potential employers. This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the […]