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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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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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Library News

  • kind discussion of Library in The Revival Lab
  • Thursday April 9th: a Literary evening with library residents
  • Happy New Year for 2026! …and a bit about who we are
  • New support platform: Every.org (new October, 2025)
  • Stop by our table at the Art Book Fair! July 10-13

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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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Happy New Year for 2026: Off-hours appointments for out-of-towners may be possible to arrange off-hours. Please send an email to info@prelingerlibrary.org and we’ll attempt to match inquiries with available hosts.

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 specific research inquiries in mind are encouraged to send a message to info@prelingerlibrary.org ahead of their visit, to allow librarians to pull materials, or advise on the extent to which the Library’s holdings may or may not address a particular 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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