Join the Library staff for Virtual Reality Lab time! We invite all ages to explore educational games, beautiful natural environments, and engaging stories using the Occulus Rift. We’ll show you how to use it and help you with the equipment. Just bring yourself and your sense of adventure!
Pickleweed Library – every Wednesday 3-5pm
Downtown Library – every Tuesday 4-6pm (except 10/4, 11/1, 12/6)
Downtown Library – Saturdays 10/15, 11/26, and 12/17 – 10am-noon
Program available courtesy of the CEC Makerspace and the Marin County Free Library, funded by a grant from the California State Library.
Join the Library staff for Virtual Reality Lab time! We invite all ages to explore educational games, beautiful natural environments, and engaging stories using the Occulus Rift. We’ll show you how to use it and help you with the equipment. Just bring yourself and your sense of adventure!
Pickleweed Library – every Wednesday 3-5pm
Downtown Library – every Tuesday 4-6pm (except 10/4, 11/1, 12/6)
Downtown Library – Saturdays 10/15, 11/26, and 12/17 – 10am-noon
Program available courtesy of the CEC Makerspace and the Marin County Free Library, funded by a grant from the California State Library.
Are you receiving calls, emails, or letters that look and sound “real” but seem questionable? Learn how to protect yoursel against these predators.
Kristina Warchholski from the Consumer Protection Unit, Marin County District Attorney’s Office will discuss some of these current senior scams:
IRS calls
Grandchildren calls
Sweepstakes solicitations
Phishing and identity theft
Fake charity solicitations
Computer tech support calls
TV promotions/”free” trial offers
Affinity scams
Home improvement scams
Home improvement/debt/consolidation
Vacation homes and rental listing scams
Friends of Libraries groups all over the country have their very own national week of celebration! This year it’s the 11th annual National Friends of Libraries Week from Sunday, October 16th through Saturday, October 22nd.
So the plan is – go to the Friends Store between Tuesday, October 18th and Saturday, October 22nd and make a purchase. Your name will be entered into the raffle to win a prize. Write your phone # clearly and you could win AND receive a phone call from us! How fun to talk to us! No, how fun to win something!
The Friends provide great contributions to the community through their support of the Summer Reading Program for all ages, First Wednesday Art Talks, and many other programs. They have purchased books, equipment, furniture, and much more over their devoted years of support. The San Rafael libraries could not do what we do without the support of the Friends.
Support the Library – buy from the Friends Store. You can also show your continued support by becoming a member – join today!
Join us for a Friends Book Sale in the Library Meeting Room. There will be overflowing art & cooking sections, abundant history, spirituality, poetry, natural history, needle arts, great fall reading in hard cover or trade editions, CDs, DVDs, and a plethora of children’s books.
Holiday books will be offered and you may even want to start your Christmas shopping early.
The hours are 10:00 to 3:30 on Saturday.
A preview for members of Friends of the San Rafael Library will be Friday, November 4th from 3:00 to 4:30. You may join the Friends or renew at the door.
The Friends of the San Rafael Library will hold a general sale of everything in the Friends Store at 1016 C Street, between 4th and 5th.
Tuesday, March 14 thru Saturday, March 18 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
All books, all CDs, DVDs, and audio books are on sale – but not the rugs or furniture!
Browse a huge art section, cooking, history, fiction, nonfiction and a wonderful children’s corner. We’ve put out the best of what has been generously donated to us.
The Friends of the San Rafael Library will hold a general sale of everything in the Friends Store at 1016 C Street, between 4th and 5th. The sale will run from Tuesday, September 27 thru Saturday, October 1 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm (closed Sunday & Monday.)
All books, all CDs, DVDs, and audio books on on sale – but not the rugs or furniture!
Browse a huge art section, cooking, history, super fall reading in fiction or nonfiction and a wonderful children’s corner. We’ve put out the best of what has been generously donated to us.
Featuring works by teens from Next Generation Scholars and the 10,000 Degrees programs, please join us on the Library Lawn at 12:30 for a bring-your-own-picnic and readings from young writers. Each writer will get 10 minutes.
Hosted by San Rafael resident, Javier Zamora, a Stegner Fellow at Stanford with an MFA from NYU.
Co-sponsored by the Downtown San Rafael Business Improvement District, Marin Poetry Center, Friends of the San Rafael Library, Jack Hunt Automotive, Bank of Marin, Pint Size Lounge, Book Passage, Falafel Hutm PS Print, and Rebound Bookstore
Although not required, you can sign-up to read at reboundbookstore@aol.com
K. Lang-Slattery became fascinated with her uncle’s World War II stories and began taping him in 1991. After two decades of research, she decided to write a novel about Herman’s life as a teenage refugee, as well as his experiences as an intelligence officer in General Patton’s Third Army. This award-winning novel was described by Kirkus Reviews as “an engaging tale of one man’s involvement in the world’s most horrific war.”
Some of the greatest contributions in defeating the Nazis and winning World War II came from
intelligence gathered by immigrant soldiers. Herman Lang was trained at Camp Ritchie in Maryland, where 9,000 immigrant soldiers– primarily German and Austrian Jews, learned the principles of psychological warfare, counter-intelligence, and interrogation,through which they obtained information about German force levels, troop movements, and the physical and psychological state of the German soldiers.
Come explore science, technology, engineering, art and math at the library! We’re hosting a series of STEAM Saturdays, with STEAM powered stories, rhymes, songs, crafts, experiments, and sensory experiences for preschool children ages 3-6 and their caregivers.
Please wear comfy clothes that are okay to get messy!
Register at the Children’s Reference Desk, or by calling us.
Are you receiving calls, emails, or letters that look and sound “real” but seem questionable? Learn how to protect yoursel against these predators.
K. Lang-Slattery became fascinated with her uncle’s World War II stories and began taping him in 1991. After two decades of research, she decided to write a novel about Herman’s life as a teenage refugee, as well as his experiences as an intelligence officer in General Patton’s Third Army. This award-winning novel was described by Kirkus Reviews as “an engaging tale of one man’s involvement in the world’s most horrific war.”
Some of the greatest contributions in defeating the Nazis and winning World War II came from