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Annual Authors Dinner

The Foundation honors 29 Bay Area authors. Hosted by Emmy Award winner Linda Schacht Gage, Pulitzer Prize winner T.J. Stiles, and San Francisco Chronicle columnist and author Vanessa Hua.

This event is sold out. Call us for waitlist tickets.

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Luis Herrera on the Future of Libraries

October 30, 2018

Our annual Rosa Shattuck Circle Reception featured public library superstar Luis Herrera. Guests gathered to enjoy in the new flexible space funded in part by the Foundation called “The Commons.” Read more…

All Things Library

September 25, 2018 The Commons grand opening, new board members, an art books sale, libraries in the media, and much more. Read about all of it here!

Our kids are changing the world. Our library helps them do it.

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Your gift to the Berkeley Public Library Foundation keeps our library agile, innovative, and strong. With your help we’re bringing our libraries new technology for learning, plus laptop lending in a freshly designed, comfy space. We’re also funding STEM and family literacy projects systemwide, with an exciting new teen space and other improvements coming soon to the Central Library.

The Berkeley Public Library Foundation works to make our great public libraries extraordinary

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Fostering curiosity, wonder, innovation

Berkeley’s Beloved Annual Authors Dinner

A place for everyone to explore, learn, and have fun

Four beautiful new and renovated branch libraries