Designed by architect Robert Snyder and built in 1928 for $18,697, this 4,579-square-foot branch of the San Diego Public Library system anchors the corner of Santa Monica Avenue and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard at the entrance to the OB business district. Children's storytime and summer-reading programming is cross-promoted with the Ocean Beach Recreation Center two blocks away, where the library's youth event flyers regularly appear on the rec center's program board. The Ocean Beach Seed Library — a checkout collection of donated heirloom and pollinator seeds, treated like books with a borrow-grow-harvest cycle — operates alongside the standard book, DVD, and audiobook circulation. Public-access computer terminals, study rooms, fax service, and a gated outdoor patio support remote workers, job seekers, and high school students after school. Patrons facing food insecurity are referred to the Sacred Heart Community Dinner and Pantry a few blocks south, with pantry information posted at the reference desk. The most involved annual program is the Friends of the OB Library outdoor book sale, which moves several thousand donated titles through the courtyard over a single weekend.