Is it your turn to pick books for your group? Not sure what to suggest? We have multiple copies (8-12) of the titles below and each title can placed on hold and checked out individually by each of your book group members.
Have you wanted to try checking-out downloadable ebooks and audiobooks from the library but felt intimidated? It’s easy! Learn how with this helpful video tutorial.
Haz tenido el deseo de descargar libros electrónicos y poder leer desde tu teléfono o tableta pero te has sentido un poco intimidado? No es complicado! Aprende cómo hacerlo en este video de la bibliotecaria Alejandra te guiara paso a paso!
The Zip Books program is a way for patrons to request books that are not available in our MARINet or Link+ catalogs. The item is free to you and shipped directly to you using Amazon.
Requirements:
1 item request at a time, 5 items maximum per fiscal year (July-June)
Items can only be requested that are currently NOT in the MARINet or Link+ catalogs
The cost of the item must be $50 or lower
Items may be a book, a large print book, or a book on CD—no textbooks
Items must be currently available through Amazon (no pre-order items)
Step 2: Library staff will email or call to let you know what day to expect the book to arrive from Amazon or let you know if it is not available. Please contact us at: library@cityofsanrafael.org if you don’t receive your book on the day estimated.
Step 3: Keep the item as long as you want, but in order to request another Zip Book you must first return the one you have. When returning your Zip Book, simply drop it in a return bin at the Downtown, Pickleweed, or Northgate libraries. Please place a note on the book indicating that it is a San Rafael Zip Book. We will mark it as returned so you will be able to order another Zip Book.
Downtown San Rafael Library: 1100 E Street, San Rafael 94901 Pickleweed Library: 50 Canal Street, San Rafael 94901
Northgate Library: Northgate Mall, Suite 083, near the Food Court.
The Zip Books project is supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library.
More than 400 individuals and families help support the library each year through their membership in Friends of the San Rafael Public Libraries. An active group of Friends also participates in fundraising, advocacy, and volunteering. Volunteers organize and staff book sales, research rare books, and sort book donations. The Friends contribute to the library through their financial support of the Summer Reading Program, art lectures, and many other programs for kids, teens, and adults. They have purchased books, equipment, and much more over their devoted years of support. They support the downtown library as well as the Pickleweed and Northgate Mall branches.
The Friends main fundraising activity is selling donated books at:
Friends Books
1016 C Street, between 4th Street and 5th Avenue, San Rafael, CA
Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday
10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(415) 453-1443
Book lovers of all ages are invited to visit our bookstore in the heart of downtown San Rafael. Friends Books offers a full range of new and gently-used books, beautifully organized and displayed for your browsing and shopping pleasure. Enter through a rare downtown garden into the sunny and friendly shop, just around the corner from Fourth Street and next door to the parking garage on C Street and 5th Avenue.
The Friends also have large, themed sales at the library or at other locations throughout the year.
Donations
Currently, the Friends are not accepting donations due to reorganizing the Bookstore and Annex space until further notice. For future donations, please call the Bookstore at (415) 453-1443.
The Friends accept donations of up to 3 boxes or bags at the annex trailer at the Downtown library drive-through (1100 E St) on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday mornings between 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. If you have 4 or more boxes or bags or have exceptional or rare books, please call 415-457-3421 to make an appointment.
Please do not to leave items outside. Items left outside will be discarded.
Please do not donate: encyclopedias, vinyl records, cassette tapes, VCR tapes, textbooks, seminar or business items, outdated science or computer items, or any items in not-new condition – only like-new items are accepted.
Support the Library and JOIN TODAY! Send checks to: Friends of the San Rafael Library, 1100 E Street, San Rafael, CA 94901
All members are invited to special preview sales.
Individual – $20
Family – $40
Business – $75
Contributing – $75
Sponsor – $100
Student – $5 (18 years or younger)
Senior – $15 (60 years and older)
For more information about joining, donating, or volunteering: call 485-3104 (office) or 453-1443 (store) or email us at friendssanrafael@gmail.com
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