Join the CA History Section for a panel on De Colores: Ca's Migrant Farm Workers at 4 PM March 26. Learn about the history of Ca's migrant farm workers and the multi-racial coalitions & relations that arose out of the Farm Worker Movement.
Registration at libraryca.libcal.com/event/16412990
Today’s Shelf Life episode takes us to the preservation section and their ingenious way to store glass plate negatives in a custom archival container.
What challenges did #California women of the 1970s face? Read all about it in their own words in this compilation digitized by the @castatelibrary. #WomensHistoryMonth delivery.library.ca.gov:8443/delivery/Del...
Shelf Life has it all mapped out in this week’s episode. Sutro Library staff share about a bespoke map carrier. #maps
#Flashbackfriday to these US Citizenship guides from 1940 in English and Italian which have recently been digitized by our Government Publications staff. You can see the digital copies at delivery.library.ca.gov:8443/delivery/Del...
and delivery.library.ca.gov:8443/delivery/Del...
Established in 1850, the CA State Library is the central reference and research library for state government and the Legislature and serves CA's local libraries, providing more than $500 million state and federal funds to support public libraries and deliver statewide library programs & services
You can never have to many books, trust us, we have over 4 million of them in our collection! You can see these books in our Gillis Hall reading room Monday-Friday 9:30am-4pm.
Greg shares about his family’s personal connection to a 1953 Capitol Press corps photo hanging outside his office. #libraries
This week’s Shelf Life dives in to dazzling bespoke books from our Sutro Library. The book featured is “Essays: First Series” by Ralph Waldo Emerson from 1902. #libraries #books
staff stepped up! These delightful donkey photos are from books titled: “Mammalia,” “The animal world,” and “Natural History Picture Book, Mammalia”from our Sutro Library collection.
Greg shares about one of his favorite art pieces from Ocean Sole, a company in Kenya. Some pieces are on display in the Gillis Hall at 914 Capitol Mall. #libraries #art video description: Greg stands with a multicolored foam water buffalo head in front of his face and then moves it down
It's Pisces season! 🐟 Pisces is usually two fish and is a faint constellation with Alpherg as its brightest star. The image here comes from a 17th century astronomy book by Polish scholar Stanisław Lubieniecki titled "Theatri cometici pars prior communicationes de comotis." From our Sutro Library.
BTBL staff took a field trip to Woodland Public Library’s Square One to use their 3D printer!
Video description: a series of clips showing arriving at Square One, different steps of printing the square shim, & ends with an image of the completed shims. #libraries #makerspace
Ramadan Mubarak! Happy Ramadan! Ramadan is in the 9th month of the Islamic calendar and until March 19, Muslims around the world and in California will be fasting from dawn until sunset.
Happy #lunarnewyear ! We pulled some books from our Sutro Library to honor the year of the fire horse
Shelf Life this week is from our Sutro Library, showcasing an original letter from George Washington from 1775. #libraries #presidents
Need a last minute gift for Valentine's day? We have you covered. Send these swoon-worthy messages to the ones you love. 💝
In honor of Presidents’ Day, and Abraham Lincoln’s birthday today, February 12, Greg shares some reading habits of Lincoln, who was President from 1861-1865. If you’re not a reader, you’re not a leader. #libraries #presidents
This volume of #ShelfLife features a copy of Harper’s Weekly from the 1860’s covering Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. President’s Day on Feb 16 this year is an annual holiday celebrating both Lincoln and George Washington. #libraries #presidents
Check out some of the hand-colored plates from John Audubon’s Birds of America published between 1827 and 1838. For more info on appointments visit www.library.ca.gov/california-h...
To view the digitized version visit www.audubon.org/art/birds-of...
Head to our YouTube channel at @CSLmultimedia
It's Low Vision Awareness Month! Our Braille & Talking Book Library (BTBL) provides free library services to eligible Californians in Norcal that include Braille books, audiobooks, magazines, downloadable materials to devices &more
For Norcal visit btbl.ca.gov
For SoCal visit brailleinstitute.org
How about "Tamale Tuesday" instead of "Taco Tuesday?!" From our CA History Section's menu collection, this menu even has a tiny tamale attached! This restaurant sold roast, sandwiches and pie in addition to tamales.
Vol. 8 of Shelf Life shows items from CA History’s Black Panther Party collection. This collection features photos, buttons, fliers, small posters, pamphlets, campaign literature, Ministry of Information Black Papers & more from 1966-1980. The Black Panther Party was founded in Oct. 1966 #libraries
Today, Jan. 30, CA celebrates Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. Korematsu was an American civil rights activist that stood up to the U.S. government’s wrongful incarceration of over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast during World War II
#FlashbackFriday to the 1919 telephone operator strike in San Francisco, CA outside the main office on Bush St. The walk out of operators, also known as "Hello Girls," was nationwide and a result of the failure of to negotiate a wage increase.
Meet Children's Librarian Ingha Chopra! 🖍️
Ingha loves borrowing the Library's Ukulele RED Kit, craft books, and travel books to spark inspiration. Tell us how you use SMPL by January 31: ow.ly/OPJ050Y5aTu
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@castatelibrary.bsky.social Every Story Counts.
Grateful to our partners and presenters —
@capolicylab.bsky.social, @chbrp.bsky.social,
@ucanr.edu, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, CRB Nexus
@castatelibrary.bsky.social, the Department of Finance, and
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This bound item w/ woodblock prints containing flatulence humor is from Sutro Library’s Orientalia collection, which is being processed. Flatulence humor was used for various reasons throughout the Edo Period, ranging from political & religious satire to commentaries on Western & European influence
“#EveryStoryCounts kicks off this Sunday. If your local library is participating, take the short survey and share your story.” youtu.be/eSjTdTl9zGc
