We're surprised this never caught on. What a cool idea! Sausalito Library is located at ///salt.goal.actor. what3words.com

Beginning today, works by Marc Gounard on display in the library. Stop by Friday, June 12 at 5:30 for the reception. Refreshments will be served. Exhibit runs through August 7.

Come contribute to the creation of a local zine! The Longstride is creating a compilation of lists written by folks around the Bay. Inspired by an exhibit at the Museum of Everyday Life in Vermont, this edition will strive to make you fall back into love with humanity through the sharing of lists.

Name the film or TV show. No Googling! #booksinfilm #booksontv

Lucinda Eubanks reads at the Sausalito Historical Society's "Authors" event at the library. What a great turnout for a special evening! Sausalito has had some amazing authors over the years. Check out the exhibit upstairs!

We got in another batch of Arkham House novels. Just have to process them before they go out onto the shelves--catalog, apply barcodes, stamps, and stickers.

New to us!

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Join us this Friday, May 22 at 6:00 p.m. in the library for an evening of readings from the Sausalito Historical Society's “Authors” exhibit celebrating the town’s literary legacy. The exhibit is a curated tribute to the diverse literary figures who once called this waterfront community home.

We visited the downtown branch of the Lexington Public Library in Kentucky. What an amazing place! It was roomy, had a pendulum, friendly staff, and an awesome Friends of the Library bookstore in the basement. Wish we could have stayed longer to explore. These few photos don't do it justice.

Library Patron: I'm looking for a book; I don't know the title or author but it's red. Amazon: These skis are half off. Starbucks: No idea. ChatGPT: You're right. I apologize for my mistake in my last answer. Librarian: Pull up a chair, friend.

Librarians hate this one trick...

Every once in a while we encounter a title that is unavailable in our own catalog and LINK+. The latter has 4.5 million items from across California. That being said, we can still get this for you through our Pika Books program. Those of you with a wife, we've got your back.

Bay Area writers, readers & friends! The next BAIT reading is THIS Friday, May 8 at 6 pm at @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social. Readers are Carvell Wallace, Chia-Chia Lin, Sarah Stone, and Dāshaun Washington. 😍 Free to attend and reading followed by a Q&A. Details and RSVP at baitreading.com

We appreciate it!

SAVE THE DATES! Join us this summer for Sausalito Library's Sterling Hayden Film Festival. We will be screening three significant films from Hayden's filmography. June 19: Johnny Guitar (1954) July 17: Dr. Strangelove (1964) August 14: The Long Goodbye (1973) See you there!

Not new, per se, but new to us, and maybe to you! Two copies of the Marin County classic The Serial (one's a movie tie-in), Dali's diary, how to defend your house, secret societies, John Berger's most important book of essays, literary memoirs of Paris in the '20s, yes, it's all here.

R.I.P. Michael Tilson Thomas. What is your favorite recording of his?

Happy UNESCO World Book Day, everybody!

@sausalitolibrary.bsky.social Happy National Library Week. 📚

Who's up for some library wandering?

He should have just gone to the library, are we right?

Attention art lovers! Join us for an exhibition of Sausalito-based Georgette Osserman's paintings. They're fabulous! Through June 4.

Great things happening at Sausalito City Hall tonight! At 6:00 in the library, we're screening the documentary The Librarians, directed by Kim Snyder. Also at 6:00, a reception for the new "Authors" exhibit at the Sausalito Historical Society.

Fighting words from Umberto Eco in his Everyman's Library introduction to The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. But don't take his word for it. Read it yourself!

Join us tomorrow night at 6:00 for a screening of The Librarians, a documentary film by Kim Snyder. As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked across America, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.

For those of you following our mystery package, it was The Joy of Gay Sex! We already have the revised and expanded 3rd. ed. This one will go to the Friends of Sausalito Library for the book sale.

Celebrate National Library Week with us this Friday when we screen the documentary The Librarians. Show time is at 6:00 p.m.

I am verrrryyyy excited for our upcoming BAIT reading @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social, featuring Carvell Wallace, Chia-Chia Lin, Sarah Stone, and Dāshaun Washington. Join us and listen to these amazing artists read their work! More info/RSVP here: www.baitreading.com

This came into the library yesterday. Am about to open it...

The Weather Channel now has a "retrocast" complete with retro music. Link in comments...

On this day forty years ago, the patrons of Sausalito Library elected Big Mouth Billy Bass as the library's mascot, chosen for Billy's affinity for the San Francisco Bay and for epitomizing literacy, erudition, and pure nautical bookishness. Today, we celebrate him!

Wow! We got a new batch of "leisure collection" magazines. Vintage, specialty, arts & crafts, foreign language--you name it. You can check them out, too!

R.I.P. Glen Baxter.

Ambrosia founding member Christopher North dead at 75. youtu.be/vdxftd_FUPw?...

Don't laugh. We actually have this tape in our new cassette collection. And yes, you can check it out. Confuse your kids with anachronistic technology! Rock out, old school! Bond with your neighbors! Coming soon, a boom box you can check out from our Library of Things.

Reading is good for you.

Processing cassettes for our new collection. We had no idea how long it would take to scrape off all these price stickers.

An amazing Instagram review of Sausalito Library, courtesy of Holly Friend, Realtor. Thanks, Holly! www.instagram.com/reel/DVwpIYE...

It's true. Everyone is reading The Count of Monte Cristo right now. If you know, you know. Our copy is pretty well-loved so we just ordered a new one. It's an amazing book, btw.

Well, the days of the card catalog are long gone. But we have the MARINet catalog now, which is better in so many ways. Search the collections of every Marin County library all at once, place holds, renew items, suggest a purchase, and more! But yeah, card catalogs were cool!

Charles Schulz panel from the 1958 paperback cartoon collection Young Pillars.

Got radon? How would you know without this bad boy? Ask us about our new digital radon gas detector, available soon from our Library of Things.

Join us this evening at 6:00 p.m. to celebrate the work of Patty Sokolecki Smoot, consume refreshments, and ask Patty questions about her photographs. The exhibit runs through April 3 but you definitely want to stop by this evening for the reception. See you there!

Many thanks to Bill Jones for sharing his experiences at the first single male to adopt a child in the U.S. (and probably the world) in 1969. We watched a documentary about him, then he read passages from his book, Bachelor Father, and answered questions.

Did y'all see that hail yesterday evening? It was loud, too! This was taken at 6:30 on Bee Street during the City Council meeting. Much of it had quickly melted before the photo was taken.

REM for public libraries, 1993.