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Visit us at the San Francisco Art Book Fair!!!
We’re excited once again to be hosting a table of our own at the Art Book Fair! We’ll offer free postcards (all new!) and also
Read morekind discussion of Library in The Revival Lab
The Inconvenient, the Useful, and the EphemeraL: A Visit to the Prelinger Library https://www.therevivallab.org/the-inconvenient-the-useful-and-the-ephemeral-prelinger-library/ Thank you, Eesha Ramanujam, author & library visitor! https://www.therevivallab.org/tag/eesha-ramanujam/
Read moreThursday April 9th: a Literary evening with library residents
Welcome to an evening with Prelinger Library Artists in Residence, past and present! all are warmly invited, though seating will be limited to 25 atendees.
Read moreHappy New Year for 2026! …and a bit about who we are
Happy New Year, everyone! The Library is ready to rumble. Our holdings are here for all to inspire, remix, offer hope, provide tools for resistance
Read moreNew support platform: Every.org (new October, 2025)
In September, 2025, we learned that the fundraising platform Flipcause is experiencing a crisis and may cease to exist in the near future. Our fiscal
Read moreStop by our table at the Art Book Fair! July 10-13
Library Table at the Art Book Fair! Join us! Over the whole weekend starting with the opening on Thursday the 10th, and continuing to Sunday
Read moreSounds in the Library Bandcamp page, new!
Thom, the artist behind Sound-day Sundays and The Instrullation has started a series on Bandcamp that includes some recordings he has made as part of
Read moreResonant Margin performances (nearly every) Third Sunday
A special monthly feature within weekly Sound-day Sundays, Resonant Margin is a collaborative performance by Thom Blum with Kattt and Kenneth Atchley. Resonant Margin performs
Read moreCollections update: Computing & Ecology (box)
In April we added a small gray box to the Ephemera collection, titled Computing & Ecology. The publications placed there in hard copy are also
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