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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the similarly named related project, see <a href="Prelinger_Archives" title="Prelinger Archives">Prelinger Archives</a>.</div>

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<p>The <b>Prelinger Library</b> is a privately funded <a href="Public_library" title="Public library">public library</a> in <a href="San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> founded in 2004 and operated by <a href="Megan_Prelinger" title="Megan Prelinger">Megan Prelinger</a> and <a href="Rick_Prelinger" title="Rick Prelinger">Rick Prelinger</a><sup id="cite_ref-Prelinger_Lib-About_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prelinger_Lib-About-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-npr_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It holds over 50,000 books, periodicals and pieces of print ephemera.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prelinger Library considers itself a "hybrid library"<sup id="cite_ref-npr_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that blurs the distinction between digital and non-digital; as of 2009 it had over 3,700 e-books online.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The library is usually open one and one-half days a week, and hosts approximately 1,000 visitors per year.

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<p>The library is unusual in that it uses a custom system of organization designed by Megan that intends to facilitate and emphasize browsing. For example, the section on "Suburbia" is next to the section on "Domestic Environments", then "Architecture", which becomes "Graphic Design", which in turn leads to "Typography" and "Fine Arts", and then "Advertising" and "Sales". There is no <a href="Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal Classification</a> system or card catalog.

</p><p>The library was inspired in part by the <a href="Warburg_Institute" title="Warburg Institute">Warburg Institute</a> Library in London, founded by German art historian <a href="Aby_Warburg" title="Aby Warburg">Aby Warburg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-harpers_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-harpers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His disciple <a href="Fritz_Saxl" title="Fritz Saxl">Fritz Saxl</a> wrote: "The overriding idea was that the books together—each containing its larger or smaller bit of information and being supplemented by its neighbors—should by their titles guide the student to perceive the essential forces of the human mind and its history." Warburg built his library to find connections and relationships between antiquity and the Renaissance. Likewise, the Prelingers' library in part addresses the relationships among intellectual property, the evolution of media and cultural production.

</p><p>Prelinger is a "serendipity" library,<sup id="cite_ref-npr_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a library that emphasizes the experience of browsing and discovering things that were formerly unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-npr_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The library can also be seen as a counterbalance to modern public libraries, which, as part of digital-library initiatives, emphasize computers and databases and are no longer a "mere warehouse for books".<sup id="cite_ref-harpers_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-harpers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Megan Prelinger said the library is "a local workshop, not an institution. We serve tea, and we encourage photography and scanning and any other form of non-destructive appropriation. That kind of environment is very natural to people in the millennial generation and people who have grown up during the resurgence of craft and DIY spaces."<sup id="cite_ref-Contents_interview_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Contents_interview-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><a href="Prelinger_Archives" title="Prelinger Archives">Prelinger Archives</a></li></ul>

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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prelingerlibrary.org/home/about/">"Prelinger Library: About Us"</a>. Prelinger Library.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-npr-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-npr_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-npr_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-npr_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-npr_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-npr_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-npr_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Audio: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R905141000">Richard and Megan Prelinger</a> interview at <a href="KQED-FM" title="KQED-FM">KQED-FM</a> (NPR) (1 hour)</span>

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<li id="cite_note-harpers-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-harpers_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-harpers_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFLewis-Kraus2007" class="citation journal cs1">Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (May 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://prelinger.com/harpers.pdf">"A World in Three Aisles"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="Harper's_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper's Magazine</a></i>. <b>314</b> (1884): <span class="nowrap">47–</span>57. <a href="ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0017-789X">0017-789X</a>. <a href="EBSCOhost_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="EBSCOhost (identifier)">EBSCO<i>host</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AN=24703726">24703726</a>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Contents_interview-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Contents_interview_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFParry2013" class="citation news cs1">Parry, Kyle (January 16 – April 17, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/the-library-as-a-map/">"The Library as a Map: an interview with Rick Prelinger and Megan Shaw Prelinger for Issue № 5"</a>. <i>Contents</i>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/isko2008/documents/abstracts/feinberg.pdf">"Classificationist as Author: The Case of the Prelinger Library"</a>, by Melanie Feinberg (PDF). Paper to be presented at International Society for Knowledge Organization conference, Montreal, August 2008.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/megan-prelinger-library/capsula">Megan Prelinger interview</a> at <a href="Radio_Web_MACBA" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Web MACBA">Radio Web MACBA</a> (2015) (Podcast/audio: 40 min)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prelingerlibrary.org">Official website</a></span></span></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/prelinger_library">Digitized books from Prelinger Library</a> at <a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></li></ul>

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