Press Releases – Archive
2016
- Kern County Library Partners with Bike Bakersfield & The Wonderful Company
- Celebrate #GivingTuesday with the Kern County Library
- Kern County Library Joins in the Countywide Effort to Collect Canned Food Donations
- Kern County Library Presents Traveling Exhibit, “Remembering 1882: Fighting for Civil Rights in the Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act.”
- Kern County Library Receives $75K Grant to Fund Wired Furniture & Digital Literacy Workshops
- Want to Learn a New Language or Study for the Naturalization Test?
- A Kern County Library Card Provides Endless Opportunities for Family Engagement
- Kern County Library’s Annual Summer Reading Challenge Begins
- Kern County Library Hosts VolunTEEN Project at all Kern County Library Branches
- Kern County Library: Lunch at the Library
- Kern County Library Invites the Public to Attend the Kern County Library Board of Supervisors Meeting Regarding Library Services
- FREE Wi-Fi Available at All Kern County Library Branches
- Kern County Library Engages Partners, Stakeholders and Community Members
2015
- Kern County Library & Bakersfield Police Department Partner to Offer Programming
- Kern County Library Engages Partners, Stakeholders and Community Members
- Kern County Library Awarded $95K Grant for “Pop-Up Goes the Library”
- The Kern County Library Announces Its New Logo & Website
- Kern County Library’s Annual Summer Reading Challenge Begins: Read to the Rhythm!
- Lunch at the Library: Free Lunches for Children 2-18 Years of Age at Beale
- Kickoff Summer Reading: A Book a Day Keeps Boredom Away!
- Kern County Library Celebrates Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library for National Library Week
- Kern County Library is Seeking Volunteer Musicians & Dancers to Book for the Summer Reading Challenge: Read to the Rhythm!
2014
- Storytime Online ~ Watch It Live!
- Focus in on Local History: Historic Union Cemetery Photo Exhibit on Display at the Beale
- Kern County Library Assisting in Online Exhibit of War Ink
- New Buttonwillow Branch Library – Ribbon Cutting
- Kern County Library Creates Community Conversation About Veterans
- Kern County Library’s Annual Summer Reading Program Begins
- Kern County Library & Kern County Animal Services Launches Summer Donation Drive for the Foster Care Pet Program
- Kern County Library Features Pepe Reyes in Bilingual Storytime
- Kern County Library to Host OverDrive Digital Bookmobile
- DIY at the Kern County Library During Teen Tech Week 2014
- Kern County Library Features Energy Upgrade California
- Kern County Library to Participate in Big Library Read Program
Media Coverage – Archive
2018 Continued
- Library fundraiser all it’s stacked up to be
- Things You Need to Know: Kern County Library at a free Pub Trivia Night
- Things You Need to Know: Kern County Library packing lunches for the Bakersfield Homeless Center…
- Books and Beers: Reading group gets together at a local pub
- Things You Need to Know: Kern County Library offering local teachers and their students tours
- Friends of the Kern County Library Used Book Sale
- Things You Need to Know: The Kern County Library offers math tutoring.
- Barks and Books, reading to therapy dogs at Southwest Branch Library
- Things You Need to Know: The Kern County Library is hosting a job search workshop…
2017
- Things You Need to Know: Enjoy a night of pub trivia…
- Things You Need to Know: The Kern County Library is showing the 1938 film “A Christmas Carol”
- Much-anticipated new library opens in downtown Tehachapi
- Things You Need to Know: Join the Kern County Library for the Holiday Candlelight Tour at 7 p.m.
- Things You Need to Know: Kern County Library’s Book Club at the Pub
- Hart Park shows its dark side with free nighttime event
- Barks & Books, reading to therapy dogs from Marley’s Mutt’s Militia
- County to host first Hart Park After Dark event next weekend
- Kids answer tough questions at library’s Philosophy for Children series
- Things You Need to Know: Experience a relaxing, fun yoga…
- Health Books at Kern County Library
- 121 People Become Citizens in Bakersfield Ceremony
- Philosophy for Kids Series at the Kern County Library
- Kern County Library Begins One Book Project
- One Book Project Kickoff Event Today
- Board of Supervisors Names New Kern County Library Chief
- Kern County Supervisors Delay Vote on I-5 Music Festival Venue (ending blurb)
- Things You Need to Know: Community Asked to Donate Hygiene Products for Children in the Bakersfield Homeless Center
- ‘One Book Project’ Returns this Month with ‘$2.00 a Day’
- New Tehachapi Library Branch Set to Open Soon
- Court Decision Will Make Passing Tax Hikes Easier in California
- Grand Jury: Kern County Library ‘On Path to Extinction’
- Grand Jury Report: Kern County Libraries ‘Headed for Extinction’
- Just Remembered the Solar Eclipse Takes Place Monday?
- Kern Astronomical Society Sets Up Telescopes, Teaches Sun Safety to Prep for Bakersfield’s Partial Eclipse
- Books in Motion Encourages Literacy Through Reading
- Free Lunch at the Library
- Lunch at the Library back at multiple Kern County Library branches
- Reading, puppets, clubs and more: Tehachapi Library offers summer activities
- Wild Animals at the Library? You Bet, as Working Wildlife Show Visits
- Main Street Tehachapi Awards $9,000 to Downtown Businesses for Facade Improvements
- Kern County’s Northeast Branch Library to be relocated
- No ‘Shh!’ at this Library
- Ag Information Aplenty at Kern County Library
- The Kern County Library Has Stitched Together Tight Budget, Will It Hold?
- 10 Things You Need to Know: The Story of Us
2016
- Budget Woes, 24th Street Wars, Kern Turns 150
- Kern County Libraries Face Uncertain 2017
- Supervisors Appoint New Interim Library Director
- Kern County Library Director Resigns
- Tehachapi Branch Library Welcomes New Librarian, Introduces Food Drive
- One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern Causes Community to Rethink Water Scarcity
- Kern County Library Gets $75K Tech Grant
- How Bad is the County Budget? Let Us Tell You
- Library Advocates Consider Their Diminished Options, Post-F
- After Failure of Measure F, What’s Next for Kern’s Libraries?
- Library Support Measure Goes Down to Resounding Defeat
- Kern County Library Offering Summer Boosts in Knowledge and Nutrition
- Kern County Libraries Hope for a Boost From a New Tax on June’s Ballot
- Kern Citizens Urges Library Transformation With Neutral Support on Measure F
- First Look: Kern County Library Tax May Provide Dedicated Funding Stream
- Kern County Supervisors Approve Putting Library Tax on Ballot
- Supervisors Send Library Tax to the Voters
- Poll Shows Majority Support – But Not Enough – For Library Tax
- Library Tax Appears Headed to the Ballot
- Kern Supervisors to Vote on Funding Options for Libraries
- Decision Day on Library Tax Comes Tuesday
- Supervisors Leery of Library Tax, But to Decide in March
- A Handy Sign That a Local Government is Shirking Its Public Duty
- Tuesday Looms as Showdown Day in Library Battle
- Supervisors to be Asked to Put Library Tax on Ballot
2015
- Library Lovers Want Strong and Public Libraries
- Library Supporters to Gather Signatures for Sales Tax
- Library Meetings Will Continue Unabated
- County Asking What We Really Want From Libraries
- Beale Memorial Library Shutdown Over Bed Bugs
- Library Poll Prompts Spirited Discussion
- Library Poll Shows Opposition to Privatization
- Group Rallies Against Kern County Library Privatization
- The Grade: BCSD Board Opposes Privatization of County Libraries – and May Be Willing to Help
- Libraries Offer Path to Stretch Dollars
- One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern Returns, Explores ‘Bank of Bob’
- Library Coalition Rep Says She Was Heckled
- Supervisors Order Redo of Library Survey, Meeting Schedule
- Library Survey and Public Meeting Schedule Go To Supes
- Survey Skips Library Privatization Issue
- Coalition Proposes Voter-Approved Funding for Libraries
- Opposition to Library Privatization Gets More Organized
- Other Privatized Libraries Flourish
- Pensions Throw Wrinkle Into Library Privatization Talk
- Documents Reveal Long Trail of Library Privatization Talk
- Foes Rage Over Idea of Privatizing County Libraries
- Library’s Kernville Branch Slated for Closure
- Library Debate Lands on Supervisors’ Lap Today
- Supervisors Decide Not to Close the Book on Library Privatization
- Kern County Could Explore Privatizing Public Libraries
- Kern County Supervisors Consider Library Privatization
- Library Supporters Concerned About Privatization Talk
2014
- County Library Earns Grant to Focus on Veteran Experience
- Libraries Offer Great Services
- Self-Checkout Comes to Beale Library
2013
2012
- County Names New Library Director
- Porn Concerns Prompts New Library Web Filters
- Library Introduces New eBook Lending
- Library Donations Funding Local eBook Effort
- Embattled County Library Director Resigns
2011
- Library Director Reportedly Placed on Paid Leave
- Records Reveal Library Director’s Questionable Work Habits
- Library Director Investigated for Personal Use of County Car
- New Library Wows Frazier Park Crowd
- Showcase Library to Open in Frazier Park
- Library Fees on Supes To-Do List Today
- Library Poised to Increase, Create New Fines
- 24 Hour Fitness, In-Shape…Beale Library?
- Library’s Lecture Series Opens BC’s History Book
- On Quality of Life: Prop 13; Future of Libraries
2009
2008
- Robert Price: In Times of Need, Turn To…the Library?
- County Debates Cutting Library Hours 16 Percent
2007
- Schools Raise Funds to Aid Northeast Library
- Vandalized County Library in a Bind
- Library Adds New Databases
- Kern County Library Offering Reading Contests for All Ages
- County Board Backs Frazier Park Library Project
- Supervisors Advance Library Project, Hear Dam Update
- Delayed Library Building Could Cost County Millions
- Books for a Buck — Or Less — At Library Sale
- Find Unusual, Rare Books at Library Sale
- Library Offers Free Practice Tests
2006
