Adorable typo from 1975 smocking booklet. 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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By Byron Spooner It’s mid-afternoon and I’m well into my second beer. The place is busy, as usual for a Saturday. Not as busy as it was a few years ago, not as busy as I’d hoped it would be when I unglued myself from the bed this morning, but busy nonetheless. There have been [...]

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Here is some incredible book art from Brian Dettmer, otherwise known as “The Book Surgeon.” According to the Modern Met, he creates his pieces slowly and with care. “Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated [...]

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So what’s it gonna be kid, Naval Explosives Expert or Dentist? Career choices DVD received at Treat Avenue Donation Center. 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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By Marcia Schneider Public libraries, long recognized as a refuge for readers, students, intellectuals, the economically disadvantaged and more, have an increasingly important role in our society as community gathering place.  Open to all, this most democratic of all public institutions is undergoing an evolution, thanks to new technologies and the downturn in the economy.  [...]

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For the past month, San Francisco based artist and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton has been going to the library a lot. She visited every floor, took detailed notes and even waited out front before it even opened. From all this hard work came a beautiful and inspiring art-essay for The Rumpus entitled, Meanwhile, the San Francisco [...]

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Wow, there’s a lot going on on this book cover: Choke-holds, terrorism, a professional wrestling endorsement, support for MS research. 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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Been looking to start a garden? Check out the Seed Lending Library at the Potrero Branch! For more information, the Potrero Library will be hosting a Seed Saving class on June 4, 3:30 p.m.

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By Byron Spooner New York has probably inspired more nostalgia than any city outside of Paris.  When I was a kid my family lived just a couple of miles outside the city.  At night it was a beckoning presence, a beacon we could see from our back yard, glowing in the eastern sky like some [...]

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By Mary Ellen Hannibal For those of us sitting in coffee shops or behind desks most of the day, the furious controversy that rages across the West concerning wolves seems bizarre and esoteric. On the one side are some ranchers and hunters who would seemingly like to eliminate wolves from the face of the earth; [...]

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