SAN FRANCISCO -- Prelinger Library has a page-turning history as San Francisco's urban oasis for research, reading, and inspiration. The space is 72 feet deep with shelves 14 feet high, each filled ...

Internet archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger discuss their efforts to build both a physical and digital library of every book ever published. “The idea is we can build a Library of Alexandria ...

Filmmaker George Griffin is donating his collection of nearly 400 books to the Prelinger Library. Founded by Rick Prelinger and his wife, Megan Shaw Prelinger, in 2004, The Library is an appropriation ...

Rick Prelinger is an archivist and professor at UC Santa Cruz. He's a collector of found and discarded footage: home movies, outtakes from industrial videos and never before seen b-roll from old ...

The Prelinger Library collection includes 40,000 publications: pamphlets, programs, magazines, and maps. When they were made they were timely, relevant to a narrow audience, and meant to be eventually ...

This is a conversation by email between Rick Prelinger, Anna Ramos, Vicki Bennett and Jon Leidecker, which took place on April 2011 in parallel to the Memorabilia. Collecting sounds with... lecture ...

Inside a fluorescent-lit corridor, tucked away on the top floor of a cavernous Richmond warehouse, the smell hits like a freight train. The strip came all the way from Detroit. It’s brittle and ...