SAN FRANCISCO -- Prelinger Library has a page-turning history as San Francisco's urban oasis for research, reading, and inspiration. The space is 72 feet deep with shelves 14 feet high, each filled ...

In an era of digital media, it’s rare to come across a treasure trove of print materials. But that’s precisely San Francisco’s Prelinger Library’s purpose: to collect, categorize and create a longer ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- What happens when your book collection outgrows your home? One San Francisco couple decided to open a library and share it with the public for free. "This is an extremely large ...

The Prelinger Library is a gem. Founded in 2004 and operated by Rick Prelinger and Megan Shaw Prelinger, the library houses over 50,000 books, periodicals and pieces of print ephemera, the collection ...

Filmmaker George Griffin is donating his collection of nearly 400 books to the Prelinger Library. Founded by Rick Prelinger and his wife, Megan Shaw Prelinger, in 2004, The Library is an appropriation ...

The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls “a map of my brain” Mary O’Mara One of the multiple ...