Archive for the 'San Francisco' Category
San Fran library hires social worker for homeless
February 22nd, 2010AP – “Every day, when the main library opens, John Banks is waiting to get inside. He finds a spot and stays until closing time. Then his wheelchair takes him back to the bus terminal where he spends his nights. Like many homeless public library patrons, all Banks wants is a clean, safe place to [...]
Tom Corwin celebrates reading with bookmobile
February 16th, 2010SF Chron – “Pulling away from the Cafe Flore on Market Street, San Francisco author Daniel Handler feels all the power and the weight of the 33-foot-long bookmobile as he cajoles it up the Market Street hill en route to his childhood library branch at West Portal. Unused to navigating large vehicles – “I’ve never [...]
Great cities need libraries now, more than ever
November 8th, 2009SF Chron – “San Francisco is bucking the national trend of diminished funding and services thanks to a budget set-aside, which received overwhelming approval by voters in 2007, and substantial progress on the largest capital improvement program in the history of the city’s library.”
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Waiver of San Francisco library fee lures lax back to the stacks
June 28th, 2009AP – “Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger may have the best excuse for overdue library books; his got rather damp following a spectacular jet landing in the Hudson River. But people from all over the San Francisco Bay area came up with some decent, or at least inventive, explanations for their tardy tomes under a [...]
Book ‘Em and Learn
November 27th, 2007I love this. “Book a Librarian†at SFPL.
New Rules in SF Library
August 16th, 2007The Examiner – “Sex, indecent exposure and drug use in San Francisco public libraries are about to be against the rules.”
Wasn’t this against the law anyway?
