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EVENT: October 13 Reading with Nishant Batsha, new fiction and works in progress

October 2, 2019 Megan Posts

Part of the Library’s fall series of Resident Artist works: Sunday the 13th, doors at 6 p.m., event at 7. The Library is delighted to

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September 2019 Library Newsletter

September 3, 2019 Megan Posts

Events, People, Publications, and Collections in September Events On September 19th we welcome back Place Talks! Place Talks longtime hosts and Library collaborators Nicole Lavelle

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Cross-promotions: some Fall program offerings to know about

September 3, 2019 Megan Posts

The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is coming right up, September 13 through 15. Don’t miss it if you like that sort of thing. This

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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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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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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.
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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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