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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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Event: Sunday January 27: Jeremy Ferris, artist in residence

January 22, 2019 Megan Posts

Doors 6 p.m., event 7 p.m.: Jeremy Ferris will read excerpts from a new comic centering on the cultural landscape of pollution and remediation on

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Introducing the Stacks Explorer

December 29, 2018 Devin Smith Posts

Hi! This is Devin. I’m excited to announce that the Prelinger Library Stacks Explorer is now live. The link is https://prelingerlibrary.org/stacks, and we’ve also added

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Inter-holiday Week: Lots of Hours and an Event!

December 25, 2018 Megan Posts

Join us in this quiet week for some hosted browsing time and tea service! We have lots of regular drop-in hours, plus one recently-added special

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Sunday the 16th: Acoustic Music During Public Hours!

December 10, 2018 Megan Posts

Join our Sunday hosts for a day of public browsing at the Prelinger Library. For two hours enjoy a special musical performance by members of

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sfSound Group Sunday 12/9 FREE avant-garde music!

December 4, 2018 Megan Posts

The Library is honored to host an event in the sfSound Series this Sunday. In the words of the Group: “sfSoundSeries is a concert series

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Lost Landscapes of SF at the Castro Theatre Dec. 4 + 5

November 28, 2018 Megan Posts

The Long Now Foundation’s Seminars About Long-term Thinking presents: Rick Prelinger, Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 13 Please join us at San Francisco’s own Castro

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November Library Newsletter

November 6, 2018 Megan Posts

November 2018 Library Newsletter: October in the Library October hosted dozens of research visits and also four off-hours classroom field trips. It also hosted a

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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.
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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