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 and resources for delight. We offer hospitality and a safe space for all to explore, create new work, and just hang out. We expect to offer a full calendar of hosted open days this year.
When not in the Library, members of the hosting consortium (Thom Blum, Jay Bolcik, Charles Kremenak, Megan Prelinger, Rick Prelinger, Carolee Gilligan Wheeler) pursue a wide range of activities.
Coming up in the second week of January is The San Francisco Tape Music Festival, a project of Sunday host Thom Blum together with collaborators. The festival presents works of found and made sounds in total darkness. Acoustic works of art.
Outside his Library hours, Jay Bolcik, a retired BART systems expert, can be found at the Western Railway Museum building the legacy of the BART system within the Museum.
Explore Carolee’s publications at superdilletante press, under the guiding line of Practice Being Human.
Rick & Megan’s other joint project, an archives of historical films, can be found –and used — online at Internet Archive, and also on YouTube.
Join a birding walk! Megan is also on staff at Golden Gate Bird Alliance, an allyship of people brought together across all communities and degrees of expertise around a common love of nature. Most field trips are free and many are oriented toward beginning birdwatchers.