November 2008

Library News

Lia Hillman, Potrero Branch Manager

Jasmin Springer, Mission Bay Children’s Librarian


Interim Services During Potrero Branch Closure

 

Bookmobile service will be provided on Tuesdays from 2:30 to 5 p.m., and  Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the north side of 1502 Mariposa Street, adjacent to the Jackson Park Recreation Center building.  Bookmobile services include borrowing and returning materials, reserving or picking up materials, and obtaining or renewing library card.


Storytime for children, from birth to five years old, is offered at 10:30 a.m. on November 13 and 20, at St. Teresa’s Community Room, Connecticut and 19th streets. Enter on Connecticut Street.


Mission Bay Library Branch


The Mission Bay Library is located at 960 Fourth Street, at Berry, near AT&T Park.  The library is open Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednesdays noon to 8 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Sundays 1 to 5 p.m..  The Mission Bay Library offers a variety of adult and children’s programming, including Baby/Toddler Lapsits for ages birth to three on Thursdays at 10:15 a.m. and Fridays at 4 p.m.  Preschool Storytime, for ages three to five, is offered on Thursdays at 11 a.m.  The Muni N and T lines are a block away, at Fourth and King Streets, and street parking is on Channel Street, also a block away.  The branch phone number is 355.2838.  


The Mission Bay Branch will host the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s production of Romeo and Juliet at 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 1.  This classic tale provides an excellent introduction to Shakespeare, and is suitable for grade school children to adults.   There will be a question and answer session after the program.  


Scroungers’ Center for Reusable Art Parts offers a crafts afternoon for adults and teens at 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 15.  


Potrero Library Campaign


The Potrero Neighborhood Library Campaign Committee meets monthly to discuss fundraising strategies and progress.  Meetings are held at 6:30 p.m., usually on the third Wednesday of the month.  If you’d like to join the committee contact Tina Tom at Friends of the Library 626.7512, extension 106; tina.tom@friendssfpl.org.

 

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