Photography by Robyn Twomey
DIY-brary
Rick and Megan Prelinger couldn’t find a library with what they wanted, so they made their own.
It’s an overcast Monday afternoon as I arrive at 8th and Folsom in San Francisco’s seedy, bohemian SOMA district. I find 301 8th Street and then buzz Room 215. A voice says hello. I tell him who I am and he buzzes me in. I take an elevator to the second floor, walk past several closed offices, and enter a small room packed to the rafters with four rows of shelves filled with books stacked 15 feet high. This is not your typical 21st-century urbane, haute-culture library.
The Prelinger Library (prelingerlibrary.org ...
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