SF library fee waiver lures lax back to the stacks Jun 19, 2009
The (optional) written excuses and video promos by local celebrities including Sullenberger were to raise awareness of the program and add some fun to the process, said Michelle Jeffers, spokeswoman for the San Francisco Public Library. But the return of late books and other materials had a serious mission. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Library book amnesty hones writers' skills Jun 16, 2009
Leave it to the San Francisco Public Library to turn its overdue book amnesty program into a creative writing contest ... Library book amnesty hones writers' skills Articles Leave it to the San Francisco Public Library to turn its overdue book amnesty program into a creative writing contest. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
City Insider: Even heroes need amnesty sometime May 2, 2009
The San Francisco Public Library has come up with a creative way to publicize its two-week fine amnesty period that begins Sunday: celebrity announcements, including one featuring Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger ... CITY INSIDER / Even heroes need amnesty sometime Articles The San Francisco Public Library has come up with a creative way to publicize its two-week fine amnesty period that begins Sunday: celebrity announcements, including one featuring Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
ODC/Dance picked for DanceMotion USA Apr 30, 2009
To celebrate, visual artists Oscar Melara and Kate Connell, musician John Calloway and filmmaker Gustavo Vazquez have collaborated with the San Francisco Public Library to produce a four-part project on the longtime working-class neighborhood that. until recently was filled with small farms, nurseries. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Lost library card creates overdue nightmare Apr 9, 2009
In December, someone used a lost San Francisco Public Library card to check out -- and ultimately steal -- a single library book. The library card once belonged to an El Granada resident who misplaced the card weeks earlier and didn t give it another moment s thought. (Half Moon Bay Review, CA)
Change is months away for Muni change machines Apr 1, 2009
Ever since the 1950s, the San Francisco Public Library has put together a humor exhibition on April Fool's Day, using the library's Schmulowitz Collection of Wit , begun in 1947 by San Francisco attorney Nat Schmulowitz. This year's theme is fashion, and a trip to the sixth floor of the main library will give you a chance to see two of Phyllis Diller's wigs and an item that special collections librarian Andrea Grimes identified as "a pop-up bra - sorry, I mean a pop-up book about bras.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
De Young curator's collection of area favorites Mar 30, 2009
Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Branch, San Francisco Public Library, 451 Jersey St. "When the Noe Valley branch reopened last year just two days after my birthday, I thought, 'This is the best birthday present ever.' I love research and take full advantage of the interlibrary loan system that delivers books from across the state just blocks from my home, not to mention being plugged into the plethora of online resources.". Fish, 350 Harbor Drive, Sausalito. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Lamar Ariel built a book around his letters Mar 28, 2009
San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Community Reading Room, 100 Larkin St., S.F. (415) 557-4590. - Daniel N. Alvarez. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Guide to the 24th Jewish Music Festival Mar 22, 2009
San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco. Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird: Mixing klezmer and politics with elements of punk and folk on its new album, "Partisans and Parasites," this Berlin cabaret group will be joined by beatboxer Yuri Lane. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
CITY INSIDER More study needed for green building Mar 22, 2009
Now the antics of these highly effective and colorful provocateurs are enshrined in a new exhibit at the San Francisco Public Library. The show will trace 30 years of these men in nun's habits. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
March in the Castro on eve of Prop. 8 hearing Mar 6, 2009
It will be shown on a JumboTron for those who don't have access to viewing rooms set up in the San Francisco Public Library. Along with arguments over the constitutionality of Prop. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Grounds For Expression Mar 30, 2008
April is National Poetry Month, and in the Bay Area, everything seems to rhyme with "busy." This month, the San Francisco Public Library is putting on poetry programs and contests, and the 826 Valencia writing collective, with the Stanford Jazz Workshop, is offering a New Orleans Jazz and Poetry workshop in which participants will create song and poetry about everything from current affairs to internal feelings. But in the South of Market offices of Youth Speaks, every month is poetry month. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
National Poetry Month Mar 30, 2008
Co-sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Free. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Protesters Gather To Protect Rent Control Mar 17, 2008
BAY AREA / Protesters in Oakland, S.F., gather to protect rent control / Prop. 98 would phase out limit that favors tenants. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
State Supreme Court takes up same-sex marriage Mar 3, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008. As gay-rights groups call for marital equality and opponents warn of a public backlash, societal decay and religious conflict, the California Supreme Court is prepared for an epic three-hour hearing Tuesday on the constitutionality of the state law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Ingleside is getting a library building Feb 17, 2008
7 million in state bond money, as well as about $500,000 for furnishings and fixtures that is being raised by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. The branch library improvement program intends to tailor each neighborhood library to local needs; library officials held meetings and outreach efforts to determine what would best serve the Ingleside neighborhood. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tom Dolby takes fictional ride back to school Jan 29, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008. (01-28) 04:00 PST New York. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Read more... Jan 18, 2008
As part of the launch, San Francisco Public Library buildings across the city are being wrapped with FutureSeaLevel. org tape to illustrate the projected effects of a rising tide on the Bay Area. (PNN Online)
It's Shangri-La in S.F. for low-income seniors Dec 24, 2007
" The Mission Creek community was part of the plan from the beginning. When the redevelopment agency started work, Neches said, planners were mindful of meeting the city's affordable housing obligations citywide as well as for the neighborhood. To that end, the agency opened Rich Sorro Commons, a low-income rental complex for families, and is breaking ground on first-time home-buyer units in the same area. The project, which includes solar panels and was constructed using some recycled... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Chronicle Watch: S.F playground 'a real mess' Dec 20, 2007
But the three public agencies - the San Francisco Public Library system, the Recreation and Park Department and the San Francisco Unified School District - share the property where Sunset Playground is located, and Tom and others say the joint ownership results in poor planning and coordination. "All three of them use it, but no one will step forward to fix anything," said Twila Parker, who grew up using that park in the 1950s and '60s and now takes her 4-year-old grandson there. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Newtons plate of issues overflows Dec 12, 2007
Why, as just one little example, can the San Francisco public library (which I recently visited) have a terrific automated checkout system while our library continues to do it with expensive employees. I remain convinced of the need for a comprehensive review of the structure and processes of government. (Newton Tab, MA)
BULLETIN BOARD Dec 10, 2007
Presented by Jenny Hunt, Michael Rooney and Michelle Stephens of Zephyr Real Estate with Jose Monar of Guarantee Home LLC, 1-2:30 p.m., San Francisco Public Library Bayview Branch, 5075 Third St., San Francisco, free, (415) 824-7200, Ext. 131. (San Francisco Chronicle)
East Hartford sophomores help "Ethiopia Reads' Nov 10, 2007
According to the group's website, Gebregeorgis, a former political refugee to the United States from Ethiopia, who earned a master's degree in library science, and became a children's librarian at the San Francisco Public Library, was asked during his tenure at SFPL to purchase books in various languages for the library, only to discover that despite a large Ethiopian population in the area, he could not find books printed in any of the Ethiopian languages. He also realized that even fewer were... (East Hartford Gazette, CT)
Opposing parking measures lead 11 propositions on S.F. city ballot Nov 5, 2007
Supporters include Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, the Children's Council of San Francisco, all seven members of the San Francisco school board, Mayor Gavin Newsom, former Mayors Art Agnos and Willie Brown, and nine members of the Board of Supervisors. Opponents include the San Francisco Taxpayers Union, the Library Users Association, Supervisor Daly and suspended Supervisor Jew. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Big Words In The Marina Aug 6, 2007
" The Marina Branch Library is the fourth renovated under a $105.9 million bond measure approved by voters in 2000. A new Glen Park library will open in October, followed by rejuvenated libraries in the Western Addition and Noe Valley. The $3.9 million Marina library renovation was enhanced by a separate community fundraising campaign by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, which raised $200,000 for new furniture and equipment. Bea Krivetsky, who raised much of that money, said the... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Diversity And Verse Jul 31, 2007
Presented by Mayor Gavin Newsom, Hirschman, the San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, the festival featured 22 poets from throughout the world at 14 readings throughout the city. Every event was free -- in keeping with Hirschman's commitment to public art and the library's mission (as Friends Executive Director Donna Bero told a Saturday audience, a library card is "the best free ride in the city"). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
'Harry Potter': Is it OK to spoil ending? Jul 14, 2007
Jeff Chiu / APNico Seevers, 5, leaves the Harry Potter Knight Bus in front of the San Francisco public library on Wednesday. PHOTO GALLERY. (MSNBC -- News)
Will Harry Potter survive Deathly Hallows? Jul 13, 2007
Robin Seiler-Garman, 12, reads a Harry Potter book as she waits in line with her brother Peter, 7, before entering the Harry Potter Knight bus in front of the San Francisco public library main branch. Will Potter's young fans be devastated if their hero is killed off. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Bilingual book club teaches literature, language Jun 28, 2007
Before moving to Escondido in 2002, Ruvinskis ran a similar book club at the San Francisco Public Library. As Ruvinskis led the group of mixed ethnicities, she exuded passion for literature as she talked about "Ines del Alma Mia," easily translating between Spanish and English to ensure that everyone was included in the discussion. (North County Times)
Libraries increasingly offering services to ease homeless plight Jun 14, 2007
The San Francisco Public Library has two part-time staffers who refer the homeless to housing and mental health agencies. The Los Angeles Public Library has a five-day summer camp for homeless children. (USA Today -- News)
Office impresario finds value in the past May 21, 2007
For a real estate investor, Tom Owens spends an inordinate amount of time poring over historical photographs at the San Francisco Public Library. But while Owens is a history buff specializing in post-earthquake San Francisco, he doesn't just collect images of buildings. (San Francisco Business Times, CA)
Come for the Xbox, stay for the books Mar 11, 2007
"We don't have our own walls yet and sometimes I have to ask the kids to keep it quiet," says Betsy Levine, a young adult librarian at the San Francisco Public Library. Still, she doesn't expect them to whisper. (Boston Globe)
Bold images for armchair travelers Feb 16, 2007
These pictures were tucked away in various collections of the San Francisco Public Library, and, thanks to Schall, we get to see them all in one place. Her captions contain colorful backstories of buildings and streets we pass by every day, as well as major and minor events of daily life in "the Paris of the West" from 1860 through the 1960s: union rallies, baseball games, downtown shopping and even traffic jams. (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Best of' American architecture Feb 14, 2007
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments - Chicago, IL American Folk Art Museum - New York, NY Art tecture Building - Yale University, New Haven, CT Baker House - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Beinecke Rare Book Library - Yale University, New Haven, CT Beth Shalom Synagogue - Elkins Park, PA Boston City Hall - Boston, MA Bradbury Building - Los Angeles, CA Burton Barr Library - Phoenix Public Library, Phoenix, AZ Caltrans Carpenter Center - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Author Tillie Olsen dies at age 94 Jan 3, 2007
She also joined the fight in the mid-1990s to stop the San Francisco Public Library from cutting support of books in favor of computers. A date for a planned memorial service has not yet been set. (Yahoo News -- Literature and Authors)
