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June 2010 Vol. 41 No. 6 40th Anniversary Zeitoun Selected for San Francisco’s LGBT Community as San Francisco’s While 2009 marked 40 years since the historic Stonewall Riots, which sparked the Gay Liberation Book for 2010 Movement as an organized force, 2010 is the 40th he San Francisco Public Library, along with our bookstore, anniversary of the San Francisco Pride Celebration school and program partners, is excited to share the news: and Parade. Zeitoun by local publisher and author Dave Eggers is the One This year’s Pride theme is Forty and Fabulous City One Book: San Francisco Reads selection for 2010. and on June 8, San Francisco Pride, Fabled ASP When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrah- (Fabulous Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities), SFPL’s Tman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose Access Services and the James C. Hormel Gay and to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting busi- Lesbian Center will present Pride Extravaganza: ness. In the days after, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand 40 Years of San Francisco Pride and Four Decades canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. But, on Sept. 6, of Lesbians with Disabilities Activism. Library 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. Eggers’s riveting nonfiction book, three years in the making, explores Commission President Jewelle Gomez and commu- Zeitoun’s roots in Syria, his marriage to Kathy—an American who converted to Islam—and their children, nity Grand Marshals of the past will host the celebra- and the surreal atmosphere (in New Orleans and the U.S., in general) in which what happened to Abdulrah- tion with speakers, including Fabled ASP founder man Zeitoun became possible. Like What Is the What, Zeitoun was written in close collaboration with its sub- Laura Rifkin, community activist Diane Sabin and SF jects and involved vast research—in this case, in the U.S., Spain, and Syria. Pride officials. The evening will culminate with music We look forward to bringing you book discussions, author events, cultural programs and more during by jazz pianist Mary Watkins and singer Lisa Cohen. Fall 2010. For more information about One City One Book, visit sfpl.org/onecityonebook. For more information The Library’s Pride kickoff event, Out and Off about Zeitoun, visit zeitounfoundation.org. the Margins: LGBT Authors Make History, a collab- oration with Cleis Press, will be held June 1. Bay Area Reporter writer Jim Provenzano will host writers Jon Ginoli, Anne Weldy, Felice Newman, Rob Rosen and Hungry for History Rachel Pepper for a discussion at the Main Library. Once again SFPL and the Hormel Gay and Les- Share your Favorite Photos, Menus bian Center will co-sponsor the National Queer Arts and Recipes with the Library Festival, beginning with the annual RADAR Super- stars Program on June 2. This year’s RADAR Super- n San Francisco, food and history go together like crab stars include Lambda Literary Award-winning author and sourdough. and Pulitzer-winning team journalist Achy Obejas; Now library patrons have a chance to share their Rich- performance video artist and filmmaker Nao Busta- mond neighborhood food history and family food ways Iwith the Library as part of Richmond Eats: Neighborhood Digital mante; writers Tim Miller (1001 Beds) and Alistair McCartney (The End of the World Book). This will be Food Network—a pilot digital archive project in partnership followed by a three-part series on June 9, 16 and 23: with Internet Archive to digitize, preserve and make available Courtesy of San Francisco History Center, SFPL Old School: Writers Unearth and Re-Imagine the San Francisco community history. Lives and Legacies of Queers Gone By. Featured From June 1 to 5, the Richmond Branch Library is encouraging everyone to bring in up to five restaurant writers and performance artists include Ben McCoy, menus (up to 11 x 17 in size), recipes or food-related photographs (up to 8 x 10 in size) from the 1850s to the Max Wolf Valerio, Len Plass, Kirya Traber, Matilda present, that celebrate the diverse culinary heritage of the Richmond neighborhood. Items will be scanned Bernstein Sycamore, Justin Chin and Ali Liebegott. at the branch and returned to donors. The scanned images will become library property, to be used by students, researchers and the general public, and preserved in the city archives. In addition to the images, Continued on Page 6 library staff will ask patrons to fill out an online registration form containing a few simple questions about any known history of the images and their own family history. The scanning hours are: 10 a.m.–7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 1 and Wednesday, June 2; 1–7 p.m. on Thursday, By the Numbers—Pride June 3; 1–4 p.m. on Friday, June 4; and 10 a.m.–4 p.m. on Saturday, June 5. A Russian translator will be available Books in the San Francisco as needed and a Chinese translator will be on site at the Richmond Branch Library for the duration of the project. A list of frequently asked questions about this project is available at sfpl.org/Richmond or you may con- 13,612 Public Library’s Hormel Gay tact the Richmond Branch at (415) 355-5600. and Lesbian Center collection Videos and DVDs in the 936 collection Remembering Effie Lee Morris Number of events the Library Effie Lee Morris Jones was the first coordinator of children’s literature at the Library is named for of Children’s Services at the San Francisco Public her and each year the Library presents the Effie Lee 10+ is hosting this month to Library, starting here in 1963. With a distinguished Morris Memorial Lecture series, featuring a noted celebrate Pride 40-year career in urban libraries, “Miss Morris” was a children’s author or illustrator. tireless proponent of services for children and youth In addition to her accomplishments at SFPL, People marched in the and of making libraries accessible to all regardless Mrs. Morris Jones served as president of the National 40 San Francisco Public Library of age, disability or language spoken. Braille Association, founded the San Francisco chap- contingent at last year’s Among her many accomplishments at San ter of the Women’s National Book Association and Pride Parade. Francisco Public Library were creating the citywide became the first African American president of the summer reading program and establishing the Public Library Association. Check out the Hormel Center’s blog: Queerest. Library. multi-language call-in Children’s Story Line (then On June 14, Mrs. Morris Jones’ cousin, Teresa Cox, Ever. at www.queerestlibraryever.blogspot.com/ Dial-A-Story), two beloved programs that remain a will host a memorial celebration in the San Francisco part of SFPL today. A historical research collection Main Library, Koret Auditorium, at 10:30 a.m. Coming Up: JULY 6 AND 10 JULY 7 JULY 8 JULY 13 How is your motorcycle Sneak Peek: 30th Annual San Greywater Action Artist Talk: Robert Dawson running? An informational Francisco Jewish Film Festival Presentation on sustainable On Empire of Thirst: Photographs class for women July 6: Main, Come see clips of outstanding water technologies Main, Latino of Water in the West exhibition Latino Hispanic Community films from this year’s festival Hispanic Community Meeting Main, Koret Auditorium, 6 p.m. Meeting Room, 6 p.m. July 10: Main, Koret, 6 p.m. Room, 6 p.m. Mission Bay Branch, 2 p.m. www.sfpl.ORG AT THE LIBRARY JUNE 2010 1 Branch Library Improvement Program (BLIP) Temporary Services Schedule The Library provides the following services during branch renovations. Bookmobile Locations: Anza (Balboa St., at 31st Ave.) Tuesday: 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday: 1:30–5 p.m. Golden Gate Valley (1700 Green St., alongside Allyne Park.) Tuesday: 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Friday: 2:15–5:30 p.m. Merced (Buckingham Way, near Stonestown Clockwise from upper left, the exterior, courtyard, children’s room and reading room at the new Ingleside Branch Library. movie theater.) Photos: Michael Kromat Monday: 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. New Ingleside Branch is Outstanding Park t’s clear that San Francisco’s newly built branch library has been hopping in the months since it reopened in its (751 Stanyan St., south of Waller) own building at Plymouth and Ocean avenues. Monthly circulation has increased 128 percent over the same Tuesday: 3:30–7 p.m. month a year ago, and library card registration is up 149 percent over the same period. Wednesday: 1–5 p.m. But these numbers don’t adequately convey the change that’s taken place in the library branch called In- gleside. It’s a whole new building, from the ground up, with a different atmosphere than the sleepy little branch Parkside Ioff Faxon Street that was frequently mistaken for a bank. The new Ingleside branch is bright and vibrant; it hums (1281 Santiago, at 24th Ave., Northwest with activity. Whereas in the old branch there was a total of four public computers (including catalog only), there are corner of McCoppin Square.) now 20 that are in constant use. Monday: 1–5 p.m. All seats in the adult reading area are taken all the time, with overflow into the teen room. Small children and Wednesday: 1–5 p.m. their grown-ups fill the children’s room morning and afternoon, reading board books and pop-up books and playing with the beautiful built-in interactive learning panels. After school lets out, teenage students elbow the adults out of Presidio the teen room to do their homework.
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