Posted on April 27th, 2011 by editor
By Suzanne Kleid “I am thirty-one years old and never had any formal library training. I have had a different kind of training which is quite compatible with the running of this library. I have an understanding of people and I love what I am doing.”—Richard Brautigan, The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 It’s a [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2011 by editor
The New York Public Library installed a 26-ft tall by 40-ft wide display to promote the Read Across America program, spelling out the word “Read” with 25,000 Dr. Seuss books. So cool! More pics here.
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Posted on April 25th, 2011 by editor
By Byron Spooner I show up early in the morning at the loading dock at San Francisco Center. I’ve always liked loading docks and freight elevators. They’re always off an alley and on the ugly side of building. It’s usually much colder or much hotter there than you expect it to be. They make you [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2011 by editor
By Katie Sue Ambellan Today, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library unleashes over 250,000 books and media to the public at the 50th Anniversary Book Sale! Held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion,the sale runs April 21-24th from 10 AM-6 PM. EVERYTHING is $3 or less, with a 3-2-1 scale: $3-hard cover books; $2-paperback [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2011 by editor
Illustration from 1943 Naval Aviation Physical Training Manual series. Bottom, right corner spread-eagle flaming man is my favorite! Daily Treats are sweet finds from our Treat Avenue Donation Center. Hungry for more collectibles? Follow us on Twitterand Facebook! Find more rare reads at Amazon and AbeBooks.
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Posted on April 12th, 2011 by editor
By Byron Spooner Samuel Fuller’s The Naked Kiss, which my wife and I watched the other day on DVD, is shot in a black and white so lurid I promise you’ll remember colors, and overacted practically to the point parody by a bunch of actors you’ve never heard of–and who have themselves never heard of [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2011 by editor
By Katie Sue Ambellan Spring has finally sprung here in San Francisco and you know what that means? Friends’ Steps Sales are back! Held every Wednesday, April-October, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. (weather permitting) on the Larkin Street steps of the Main Library, all books at the Steps Sale are $1 or less and proceeds benefit the [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2011 by editor
By Mary Ellen Hannibal This Wednesday, April 6, I’m interviewing Chris Rainier for City Arts & Lectures. I should probably be more nervous, because he is VERY FAMOUS but hey, this guy has spent his whole career walking into places where he doesn’t speak the language, and many where bullets are flying overhead, and he’s [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2011 by editor
By Jean Farrington You may think you know all about Marie Curie. After all, she won two Nobel prizes (physics and chemistry) and her discovery of polonium and radium has had far reaching consequences, both positive and negative. And you probably know that she and her husband were a devoted couple whose shared passion was [...]
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Posted on April 1st, 2011 by editor
By Marcia Schneider It was March of 1974 and I was a freshly minted, newly hired librarian at the San Francisco Public Library, assigned to work at the Anza Branch, located in the outer Richmond District. Anza is only blocks from the western edge of the City, where daily, chilly grey fog funnels in off [...]
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