Last year over 35,000 people attended Library exhibits and events sponsored by Friends. These included lectures, author readings, films, panel discussion, exhibits, and much, much more.
   
A reading in the Koret
 

In our press room, you will find our latest press releases, our media kit and recent stories about Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.  If you would like more information, please call 415-626-7500 or email media@friendssfpl.org. 

PRESS RELEASES
4/10/08 May Parenting Programs
2/28/08 Green Ink Series
1/30/08 Berk Study Press Release
1/30/08 2008 Library Laureates Dinner
12/28/07 Writers Remembered 2008
4/23/07 Announcing the San Francisco International Poetry Festival
1/29/07 Eleventh Annual Library Laureates Dinner
12/1/06 BOOK BAY FORT MASON BOOKSTORE NEWER AND BIGGER
7/21/06 BIGGEST Book Sale Yet
3/22/06 Library Laureates 2006
1/18/06 Screening of IN THE SHADOW OF THE STARS
12/22/05 Writers Remembered 2006
12/19/05 Activist Kate Michelman to Visit Main Library
10/18/05 Mission Bay Weekend
9/6/05 Our Biggest Big Sale Yet
8/22/05 Author Andy Behrman visits Book Bay Main
7/15/05 The RZA Visits the Main Library
6/29/05 Excelsior Branch Library Reopens!
5/4/05 Hunter S. Thompson Tribute
3/20/05 Library Laureates 2005
2/17/05 Friends & Common Wealth Club Launch Speaker Series
2/8/05 Media Alert: Elijah Wald Visits the Main Library
1/18/05 Why We Love Baseball
1/10/05 Donna Bero New Executive Director of Friends
   
FRIENDS IN THE NEWS
6/12/07 Best of San Francisco
5/20/07 Library Laureates Dinner
5/9/07 San Francisco International Poetry Festival
4/22/07 San Francisco International Poetry Festival
1/30/07 Writers Remembered 2007
10/13/06 ZYZZYVA Speaks
10/4/06 Majorie Stern - S.F. Library mover, shaker
9/28/06 A Very Big Book Sale
7/9/06 New Chapter for SF Library System
7/8/06 Mission Bay Opens
7/7/06 Cynthia Kenyon Speaks at Mission Bay
7/3/06 Innovative Library to Open Saturday
6/20/06 Mission Bay buzz
6/17/06 Letter to the Editor - Libraries Good Works
6/15/06 New Library for Mission Bay
5/18/06 Prop 81 Good Start on Libraries' Needs
4/26/06 Letter to the Editor: Support our libraries
4/24/06 SF Chronicle Endorses Proposition 81
4/16/06 Library Laureates -- Invite of the Week
2/11/06 Noe Valley Branch Closes
2/8/06 Leah Garchik: Pose with an Oscar
1/18/06 Kerouac's Beat bible at the Main Library
12/21/05 From readers: Supporting SF Libraries
12/20/05 Editorial: Libraries put the pedal down
12/17/05 Library construction moving ahead
12/17/05 Role changing for "21st century library"
10/12/05 Library Journal: New Fund
10/12/05 Letter to the Editor: Gus Lee
10/8/05 Letter to the Editor: Free & Equal Access
9/30/05 Book Sale Binds Friends
9/26/05 Gus Lee Profile
8/11/05 The RZA Entertains at the Main
7/29/05 Greeting cards that show their spine
7/1/05 Meet Your New City Librarian
6/17/05 Happier Days for Libraries
5/27/05 China Boy Named One City One Book Title
5/20/05 Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson at Main Library
5/18/05 Wear Your Hawaiin Print Shirt: Hunter S. Thompson Tribute
5/16/05 Making Book - Library Laureates 2005
5/6/05 Library Gets an Upgrade
4/4/05 Porch Light Party Fun Preview to Library Laureates 2005
2/8/05 Friends Sponsors "The Maltese Falcon: An American Classic at 75"
1/12/05 Choosing to Participate at Main Library
12/14/04 Libraries Are Branching Out
11/30/04 SFPL Awarded $9.7 Million
11/27/04 Friends Advocates for State Bond Money
9/24/04 San Francisco Chronicle Article on the 40th Annual Big Book Sale
 
PRESS KIT
About Friends (122.6 KB)
Friends History (77.1 KB)
Friends Library Support (77.2 KB)
Neighborhood Library Campaign (98 KB)
 
   
 
 
 
 

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