Western Addition Branch

San Francisco Public Library branches collect materials that meet the needs of the branch community. Like all branch libraries, Western Addition Branch offers high interest books at adult, teen and children's reading levels. Basic collections of fiction, nonfiction and reference materials are available. Branches also offer a variety of magazines, newspapers, audiobooks, CDs and DVDs. Books not collected by a branch may be obtained through the library's request system, Link+, or interlibrary loan. Most of the library's large collection of electronic resources is accessible from all branch locations and online 24 hours a day at www.sfpl.org.

Western Addition branch has a Japanese interest collection in English and an African American interest collection. Additional research materials are available in the International Center and the African American Center at the Main Library.

The Western Addition Branch has a large Japanese language collection and a small Russian language collection.

Western Addition Branch has a photographic history archive collected from neighborhood residents as part of the Shades of San Francisco Project.