Beyond Your Brain (Or Other Ways to Know Stuff)...for Teens

Friday, August 29, 2008

4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Learn how gut feelings can improve your life. And how intuition -- or your sixth sense -- can help you navigate those people and things important to YOU!

Presenter, Kay Fahlstrom, has been developing her intuition for 22 years. For information or to register, contact Marla Bergman at
(415) 355-2832 or mbergman@sfpl.org

For ages 10-18.

Home Preparedness in Earthquake Country

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Matt Springer, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF, will give a talk and slideshow about precautions that can be taken to lessen the damage from an earthquake at home and work. His presentation includes many photos of preparations in his own home and suggests measures ranging from simple to complex to prepare for the next temblor. Cosponsored by the Environmental Center.

Computer Training Class- Library Catalog

Tuesday, August 19 at 2:00pm

Learn to search the Library's catalog, place holds on items and manage your Library record. Basic keyboarding skills required. Space is limited.

Please sign up at the Information Desk or call 557-2858

It's a Party!

This Saturday is the last day of the Read in the Wildest Places Summer Reading program. To celebrate the last day, we are having a party for children of all ages at the Glen Park Library.


Please join us at 2:30pm, there will be light refreshments and Mark Bunnell and his Carnival of Chaos will be performing!

Encore Searching

The San Francisco Public Library has just launched a new way to search the library catalog on our home page.

Encore is a different way to search the catalog that is a "discovery tool." It incorporates tag clouds and assists with common mis-spellings. A tag cloud is a just a Web 2.0 way of saying "subject heading."

The new Encore way of searching includes exactly the same information that appears in our normal records. Encore takes information that might of been more difficult to find and rearranges it so it will be easier to locate. It also is easier for the user to fine tune what they are looking for.

You will still be able to search the catalog the old way but please try the Encore way and hopefully it will help you discover new materials that might be of interest to you!