Favorite Libraries

My favorite libraries in California and Oregon

This page:
California: Bay Area | California: Elsewhere | California: Statewide | Oregon

California: San Francisco Bay Area

South Bay:

• Los Gatos Public Library
• Mountain View Public Library
• Palo Alto City Library
• Santa Clara City Library
• Santa Clara County Library
• Santa Clara University
• Stanford University
• Bender Room - A very nice reading room in the Green Library
• Hoover Institution Library and Archives
• Sunnyvale Public Library
• UC Santa Cruz
• Grateful Dead Archive
• West Valley College

Elsewhere in the Bay Area:

• Alameda County Library
• California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
• California Historical Society, San Francisco
• Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
• Oakland Public Library
• Peninsula Library System - Includes a union catalog of all San Mateo County libraries' holdings
• Prelinger Library - A very unusual independent library at 301 8th St., San Francisco
• Prelinger Library Digital Collections: Free Texts, Download and Streaming (Internet Archive)
• Prelinger Library Blog
• San Francisco Public Library
• San Francisco State University Library

California: Elsewhere

• California State Library, Sacramento
• California State University Sacramento
• Los Angeles Public Library
• San Luis Obispo County Library

California: Statewide

• University of California Libraries:

• UC Libraries
• Melvyl catalog
• University of California Campus Libraries:
• UC Berkeley
• UC Davis
• UC Irvine
• UC Los Angeles (UCLA)
• UC Merced
• UC Riverside
• UC San Diego
• UC San Francisco
• UC Santa Barbara
• UC Santa Cruz
• UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• California Digital Library

Web Directories of California Libraries:

• California Library Directory (California State Library)
• California Community College Libraries (Santa Rosa Jr. College)

Union Catalogs of California Libraries:

• Melvyl - Catalog of the University of California libraries

• Catalog of the California State University libraries (22 campuses)
• Link + - Union catalog of some CSU libraries and other college and public libraries

Oregon

• Southern Oregon University, Ashland
• Jackson County Library Services, Medford, Ashland, and vicinity

Union Catalog:

• Summit - Union catalog of academic libraries in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. It doesn't have a separate search interface, but is built into the catalogs of Orbis Cascade Alliance member libraries