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Join Megan for a natural history walk

September 3, 2019 Megan Posts

To all Library community members far and wide: It’s the beginning of September and the urban Bay Area is filling with migrating birds. Please join

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Register for the Wiki-a-thon August 25th!

August 6, 2019 Megan Posts

Sunday, August 25: Register using the link below! This event will feature catering from LeMed, courtesy of the Wikimedia Foundation, and registration is used to

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August and September Events: Wiki-a-thon, Place Talks, and more!

August 6, 2019 Megan Posts

Coming up: Sunday, August 25: Wiki-a-thon with Bay Area Wiki Salon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Prelinger_Library_Wiki-a-thon_with_Bay_Area_Wiki_Salon?fbclid=IwAR1F5Z10T9z7bzj_0PyI1PMbBdbZUhJ472SIrqXqUzv6epzYPhTQ_mmXu3o On the 19th of September, Place Talks Season 6 opens! http://www.placetalks.online/ On the

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Action in the Stacks! Klooj w/ Si-si D Saturday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m.

June 13, 2019 Megan Posts

Action in the Stacks Klooj w/ Si-si D Saturday, June 15, doors 7 p.m., performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Prelinger Library 301 8th St, Suite

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Live KLOOJ music & performance event June 15

June 1, 2019 Megan Posts

KLOOJ! On Saturday evening the 15th the Library will open with light refreshments to the avant-garde performers KLOOJ who will present an improvisational collision of

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Screening Event May 31: Lucie Rosenfeld’s “There there”

May 12, 2019 Megan Posts

On Friday, May 31, Lucie Rosenfeld premieres her 25 minute film on local land politics, “There there,” : “Eschewing whitestream narratives of redevelopment, ‘There There’

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Sunday Special: Music Performance at 3:30 with Jeremy Rourke & Friends

March 14, 2019 Megan Posts

Join us for a day of public browsing at the Prelinger Library! Drop by anytime from noon-5pm to search the lucky stacks and find new

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Visual Poetry Workshop

March 2, 2019 Megan Posts

Thursday the 7th, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., filmmaker and poet Amy Bergstein will convene a Visual Poem Workshop that cross-pollinates poetry with visual

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March 2019 Library news

March 2, 2019 Megan Posts

Welcome to March! People in the Library Starting in mid-February we are joined by Nishant Batsha as a writer in residence extending into the month

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February 2019 Library News

January 31, 2019 Megan Posts

February Library Events Library-related event: KADIST Foundation for the Arts is borrowing pages from Norm Therkelson’s clippings books on Redevelopment in San Francisco to support

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Library News

  • expanded hours in April, & Blum’s installation continues
  • January 26 and 29 live events in the Library(?) YES! Masked, distanced, and vaxxed EVENTS
  • Join us December 1 at Herbst Theater for LL 2021: “Earth, Air, Fire, Water, California Infrastructures”
  • Drop-in hours return October 2021!
  • A Library for 2021: Library Wednesdays return April 7th!

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Sunday afternoons continue through August. Also in August, New THURSDAY hours! Now open:

Tuesdays 11 – 5 p.m.
Wednesdays 12:30 – 7 p.m.
Thursdays 2:30 – 7 p.m. (New!)
Sunday afternoons 1:30 – 4 p.m.
Thom Blum’s audio installation “You Are Here” runs Sundays 2 – 4.
TO FIND US : Use the intercom near the street entrance at 301 8th Street in San Francisco to reach “Prelinger Assoc” by scrolling left through the arrow keys, then press the CALL button to be buzzed up to the second floor. Please be vaccinated!

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

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