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The City of San Francisco prides itself on providing a welcoming and inclusive environment
for all people. The Library has a long history of championing intellectual freedom and
strives to provide services and collections which meet the needs of its users and the
general citizenry.
Through the extensive resources of the Main Library, the twenty-seven branches which serve
the neighborhoods of San Francisco and a virtual library of e-resources, the San Francisco
Public Library serves residents of San Francisco, the Bay Area and beyond. Through the
online catalog, the extended resources of academic and public libraries throughout
California are available to augment the collections.
San Francisco is comprised of multiple discrete and diverse neighborhoods. In order to meet
the needs of a changing population, library collection development managers consider such
factors as neighborhood and city wide demographics, as well as projected changes for given
neighborhoods.
The Library acknowledges the important role of the community in collection development by
inviting suggestions for purchase,
monitoring requests, and evaluating the collections on an ongoing basis.
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