Prelinger Library Blog

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Didactic Ephemera

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Animator, filmmaker, writer and artist George Griffin recently donated his large and wonderful collection of "how-to" art, photog...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

1959 letter-writer critiques Another Science Fiction, in advance

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I do love a good counter-narrative. As I continue research toward the next book, it's inevitable that from time to time things turn up t...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Thanks to those who have donated materials

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It's simple to say that the library is built upon the generosity of many people, but what that means is often difficult to specify. It m...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Chris Carlsson's portrait of San Francisco's "ghost streets"

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Chris Carlsson has assembled an amazing portrait of San Francisco's hidden landscapes on his Streets Blog. Visit it, and see portraits ...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Reason / No Reason

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Hmmm, interesting mashup of good week, bad week. First the Bay Guardian award, then we are tickled by the attention paid to the film archive...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

Thanks, Bay Guardian!

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Wow, a local honor. We're thrilled to have been designated "Best Place to See Old S.F." in the Bay Guardian's July 29th ...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Libraries as Agencies of Culture

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Rick recently discovered this volume: It's v. 42, n. 3, Fall 2001 of American Studies , and features several essays on libraries as cul...
Monday, June 01, 2009

Our Maker Faire Experience

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Wow, Maker Faire was incredible! The how-to library and re ading room that we installed was fairly mobbed with visitors. Without the support...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Interview with Michael Krasny on KQED's Forum

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Our thanks to interviewer Michael Krasny for hosting our one-hour on-air presence at KQED this morning. The Forum program that features the ...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Volunteer appreciation

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The library has never been in better shape. And it's only because of a dedicated core group of volunteers. In mid-April Freya Channing c...

New Material from Kayo Books

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We picked up a few jewels for the science fiction collection at Kayo Books recently. Anyone able to drop in to their store in San Francisco...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Pop-Up Magazine Review

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Thanks to the Mission Mission blog for such nice words about our presentation at Pop-Up Magazine on Wednesday night! How sweet! Visitors re...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Welcoming Thanksgiving holiday visitors to SF

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As in past years, we welcome visitors to San Francisco for the Thanksgiving holiday. The library will be open on Wednesday, November 26 fro...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Come and get some books! (Wed., 9/24, 4:00 - 8:00 pm)

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We've been spending a lot of time de-duplicating and honing the collection, in line with our "spaghetti-sauce theory of collection ...
Sunday, August 03, 2008

Theoretical Book Club visit

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It's been a hummingly busy summer in the library; a summary of summer notables will have to keep for the moment. Today's notable was...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

New shelves installed!

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First and foremost we owe profuse thanks to our wonderful intern Freya Channing. Without Freya's energy, we would have taken much longer...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Ready for new shelves!

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Ever seen the back of the room empty before?
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Five more years! New shelves!

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The past couple of weeks have seen great changes set in motion around the library. First, we obtained a lease renewal that will keep us in o...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Murder Can Be Fun library blog

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Murder Can Be Fun now has a blog. The genre-bending, page-turning zine of evil fun has been written and published for two decades by our ass...

Maker Faire report

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We had a terrific time at the Maker Faire this weekend. It was an eye-popping blitz of robots, crafts, kinetic sculpture, re-engineering eve...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Come see us at Maker Faire

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We're going to bring a miniature library to Maker Faire on Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4, at the San Mateo County Event Center and F...
Monday, April 28, 2008

The Radio Ephemera Challenge

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We are delighted to announce our first, and hopefully not last, collaboration with the Third Coast International Audio Festival — Radio Eph...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Intern achievement rankings results

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For June 2006 – January 2008, the percentage of Library interns admitted to Ph.D. programs at Harvard before age 23 = 100%! Congratulations ...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Technology in Wartime conference remarks

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Writing today from the CPSR conference on technology in wartime. The conference speakers all make interesting points that with increasing t...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

And now for something completely different…

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The library now has a MySpace page ! Meet up with us in cyberspace and make the library your "friend." --MSP
Monday, January 07, 2008

Supreme Court denies certiorari in our copyright case

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This morning the Supreme Court denied cert in our case. Lessig explains on his blog.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Library Reacts to Geology

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What fell off the shelf in the October 30 temblor? Geologic forces reached up and pulled... Great Science Fiction by Scientists (ed. Conkli...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Prelinger Library inside out

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That's what's going to happen on Wednesday, October 3, at 7:16 pm (the moment of civil twilight ). Illuminated Corridor is putting ...

Good news for the public domain?

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The 10th Circuit handed down its opinion (PDF here ) in the case of Golan et al. v. Gonzales yesterday. Golan challenged the constitutional...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Visit to the Warburg Institute Library

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London's Warburg Institute has often been called the inspiration for our own classification and arrangement system, but we're actu...

Poor Melvil Dewey

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The coverage of Maricopa County's departure from Dewey continues. This morning it's in the Wall Street Journal .
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Scanning update

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We continue to send books and periodicals to the Internet Archive scanning center. Some recent periodical titles that have been digitized: ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Chicago Underground Library

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We just discovered this new project, the Chicago Underground Library. Like us, it's independent, iconoclastic, and site-specific. Like ...
Friday, June 22, 2007

Provisions Library retrenches

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In May 2005 I had the privilege of presenting Panorama Ephemera at the Provisions Library in D.C. Provisions is a walk-in publicly access...
Friday, June 01, 2007

Arizona library drops Dewey

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...amid controversy . The LibrarianInBlack raises questions too . And now it's June 11 and there's a very active MetaFilter thread .
Thursday, May 31, 2007

Recent terrific donations

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We've been recently pleased by the unexpected arrival of some terrific donations. We appreciate that people have been responding to the ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Has the Earth a Ring Around It?

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It's an open Wednesday in the library and there are seven women working on projects here. Two on a movie, two on a local history project...

Punk Zine Archive

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Both of us have been influenced at a core level by punk culture and politics. We like to think of the library as a DIY (that's do-it-y...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Video, Education and Open Content

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Here at the Video, Education and Open Content conference at Columbia, sponsored by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning ...
Monday, May 21, 2007

More from Moscow

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A book fund established in 2006 through the generosity of Kenneth N. Swezey provides us with a stake to purchase English-language books publ...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Our LibraryThing Hobby

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We've said publicly that we don't plan to catalog our collection, and yet recently the temptations of LibraryThing have made this p...
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Eclipse: a free online archive of smallpress writing

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I'm thrilled to discover (thru Silliman's blog ) Eclipse , which describes itself as a "free on-line archive focusing on digita...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Prelinger Library in Harper's (more)

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You can read the Harper's piece on our library here .
Monday, May 14, 2007

9th Circuit denies our petition for a rehearing

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The 9th Circuit has denied our petition for a rehearing in Kahle et al. v. Gonzales. The announcement and link to opinion is here ; some ba...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Itinerant Poetry Librarian to Visit May 16th

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We are delighted to announce that the Itinerant Poetry Librarian , who's in San Francisco for a spell, will be installing her Library a...
Monday, May 07, 2007

WPA guides and Federal Writers' Project publications

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As Gray Brechin made clear in his California Studies Association lecture weekend before last, the legacy of the New Deal still surrounds ...
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Saturday, May 05, 2007

Survey and Survey Graphic

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In collaboration with the Internet Archive and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, we're starting to digitize Survey and it...

Access to our digitized books

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It shouldn't be so difficult to get to our scanned books, but right now it is. There's full-text search of most of our online title...
Thursday, May 03, 2007

Digital collections growing

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As of this morning we are up to 2098 items. Here's a link to new additions as they appear. Rankings are overrated, but collecting habi...
Monday, April 23, 2007

Prelinger Library in Harper's

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Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes in depth about the library in the May issue of Harper's . It's online right now for subscribers and will ...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Archivists' archives reprieved (for now)

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After many archivists protested, the Society of American Archivists Council has reversed its decision to purge the archives of the SAA lists...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Society of American Archivists decides to nuke its listserv archives

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I joined the Society of American Archivists last year and attended their 2006 conference in Washington, D.C. It was a fascinating gatherin...
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