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Prelinger Library

San Francisco, CA

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Library News

  • New support platform: Every.org (new October, 2025)
  • Stop by our table at the Art Book Fair! July 10-13
  • Sounds in the Library Bandcamp page, new!
  • Resonant Margin performances (nearly every) Third Sunday
  • Collections update: Computing & Ecology (box)

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Visit Us!

Please note December closures when planning your visit between now and the end of the year. Drop-in Hours Three Days a Week, except for December closures. No appointment needed during posted open hours. Please visit! Chilled sparkling water offered to every visitor!

Sunday afternoons: 1:30 – 4 p.m. host, Thom Blum’s live sound art performance “The Instrullation” accompanies these unique research hours.
Tuesdays: 11 – 5 p.m. Host is a zine artist
Wednesdays: 12:30 – 7 p.m. Hosting trio

PLEASE NOTE CLOSURES IN LATE 2025: We will be closed Wednesday the 3rd of December; and then the 23rd and 24th, and the 30th and 31st of December. Yikes! We regret any inconvenience, and promise the return in January of a full calendar. Note that the Sunday afternoon hours continue throughout except for December 28.

 

TO FIND US : Use the intercom near the street entrance at 301 8th Street in San Francisco to find a button marked “Prelinger Library.” Press the button to be buzzed in, and take the elevator to the second floor.

Visitors with a specific inquiry in mind are encouraged to send a message to info@prelingerlibrary.org ahead of time, to allow us to pull materials (or advise on the extent to which the Library’s holdings may or may not address that inquiry). Thanks!

You’re welcome to download a visitor guide before visiting: http://www.prelinger.com/2020-Library-FindingAid.pdf

Indigenous representation, resource holdings Finding Aid: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xZp6VKNCyJIP8zYBTLtLtcQdDAvCn-uOCMwsnp6lMGA/edit?gid=1916604178#gid=1916604178

Artists Books collection, Finding Aid: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/156nb5Dg5DIcD_IBBZPaCITnw31nLg6_z/edit?gid=1482885575#gid=1482885575

 

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