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October News: Planned Reopening

October 4, 2020 Megan Posts

With indoor cultural spaces opening up, we are getting ready to continue the Bay Area’s tradition of independent, artist-serving, activist-friendly resource exchange spaces. Thanks to

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August 2020 Update

August 18, 2020 Megan Posts

Hi everyone, Thanks to extraordinary support from our donors, the Library continues to be rent stable in August as the shutdown continues. This stability mostly

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Update for Juneteenth and COVID-19

June 19, 2020 Megan Posts

The Prelinger Library & Archives spheres stand in alliance with Black Lives Matter! Since 2004 this Library has offered a hub for the study of

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COVID-19 Update for April: Remote research requests are welcome [CLOSED FOR THE DURATION]

March 10, 2020 Megan Posts

Hi everyone, from Megan & Rick Prelinger, co-founders: We will remain closed in compliance with the statewide mandate for as long as it pertains. Our

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March Library Newsletter

March 1, 2020 Megan Posts

March features Place Talks, which wraps up Season 6 on Thursday the 19th with the Burl Concentrate and Jonah Susskind. The February event was attended

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Register for Black History Month Wiki-a-thon, February 9!

February 6, 2020 Megan Posts

Join us for another wiki-a-thon hosted by the Prelinger Library and the Bay Area Wiki Salon! In honor of Black History Month, this wiki-a-thon is

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January News & Event Details!

January 6, 2020 Megan Posts

January, 2020 Library News and Event Details! Place Talks resumes! Thursday, January 16 We are delighted that January’s Place Talks features both Lily Sloane and

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December Community Newsletter

December 4, 2019 Megan Posts

In this newsletter: Four Events by Library co-founder Rick Prelinger are happening in December, as are some special Library hours. Then in January: an artist

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Changes to Open Days in November: more Saturdays! …but no more Thursdays

October 29, 2019 Megan Posts

Dear Library visitors, We are delighted to announce expanded Saturday hours coming in November, with at least three Saturdays per month … and sometimes four

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EVENT! October 27 Music Matinee, electroacoustic and multimedia

October 26, 2019 Megan Posts

Part of the Library’s fall series of Resident Artist works: Sunday the 27th, doors at 4 p.m., Library is hosting a 4:30 matinee of experimental

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Library News

  • Sounds in the Library Bandcamp page, new!
  • Resonant Margin performances (nearly every) Third Sunday
  • Collections update: Computing & Ecology (box)
  • Join us at Herbst Theater December 9 & 10
  • Join us at the Savoy Tivoli September 18

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Visit Us!

Drop-in Hours Three Days a Week. No appointment needed. 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

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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