The Library Hosting Consortium, 2025
The Library’s public open hours are hosted by an inspired and deeply dedicated group of people:
Thom Blum — Sunday sound art installation, Library host since 2021
Carolee Gilligan Wheeler – Tuesday hours, Library host since 2015
Jay Bolcik, Library host since 2018; transit specialist; retired BART engineer
Cofounders Megan & Rick Prelinger since 2004
Charles Kremenak, alternate host since 2024 (previously Artist in Residence, 2019)
Facilities: Jay Bolcik, since 2018
Collections steward, 2025: Spencer Bowen
Recent collections stewardship alumnae, 2022–2024: Lucie Rosenfeld, Sean Kawa
For Potential Volunteers
The Library welcomes all inquiries about volunteering, and we are grateful for the community’s volunteer support that has helped the Library reach a much larger array of artists, activists, scholars and the generally curious than we two co-founders could ever have done on our own. The Library is considerably volunteer-run, with people in our core community making an incredibly wide array of different contributions to the overall project. The common feature of all volunteer projects is that they arise organically out of people’s personal engagement with the Library. We two co-founders are limited in our ability to develop, train, and assign projects on a regular basis. Rather, the volunteer relationships that have flourished are those in which the interested person develops their own relationship to both the collection and the Library as a social environment, and develops a proposal for what they would want their own contribution to be.
Alumnae, Hosting Consortium and Volunteers
Bryan Boyce,Library host 2015–2020; 2021–2024
Devin Smith – Thursday hours and Stacks Explorer project, Library host 2018–2024
Adrianne Finelli Library host 2015–2020
Nate Hoffelder, Webmaster, 2016–2022
Sarah Benlolo, collections volunteer, 2015–2020
Monica Westin, Library host 2018 – 2020
Jessica Cebra, collections volunteer, 2018–2019
Katarina Lachenal, Library host 2017–2018
Alicia Toldi, collections volunteer 2017–2018
Charlie Macquarie, 2014, collections volunteer; Library host 2015–2019; Place Talks co-curator through 2020
David Wiegleb, Library host 2017–2018
Annegret Spranger, collections volunteer 2015–2017
Tim Slaughter, collections volunteer 2015–2016
Lindsey Dupler, 2015 volunteer, hosting support, off-site explorations, hospitality
Christina Corfield collections volunteer 2013; created the Finding Aid for the Oversize Ephemera collection
Emma Hurst winter 2013 intern
Freya Channing, collections processing lead and Library host, 2008–2011, and Fall, 2013
Juliayn Coleman, Summer 2010 volunteer bookbinder
Heather Jovanelli, collections volunteer 2011–2013
Pamela Jackson, collections volunteer 2006; Library host 2007
Karla Nielsen, Summer 2008 hosting support, collections stewardship
Dawn Marsh Wilson, 2009 hosting support, digital asset management
Kevin Darling, Summer and Fall, 2010, collections volunteer
Antonella Bonfanti, Summer 2011, hosting support
Courtney Fellion, 2012 original WordPress site developer
Sara Garvey, January 2012, collections processing
Kris Ashley, development volunteer, Fall 2013
Jeremy Blatter, Summer 2006 intern, Summer 2007 intern
If you have made a contribution to the Library’s collections and public offerings and do not see your name listed here, please get in touch! Send an email to info@prelingerlibrary.org and we will rectify the situation immediately.