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:
- San Jose Library home page (SJLibrary.org)
- Beethoven Center
- California Room - Local history
- Steinbeck Center
- Silicon Valley Reads
San Jose Library:
Combines San Jose Public Library and San Jose State University Library
- 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
- West Valley College
- 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
Elsewhere in the Bay Area:
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
- California Library Directory (California State Library)
- California Community College Libraries (Santa Rosa Jr. College)
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
Web Directories of California Libraries:
Union Catalogs of California Libraries:
Oregon
- Southern Oregon University, Ashland
- Jackson County Library Services, Medford, Ashland, and vicinity
- 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