Local Links & San Francisco History

Featured San Francisco Resources

311 Customer Service Center: An easy-to-remember telephone number that provides information about non-emergency City services, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
511 Public Transportation: Find information, maps, fares and schedules for Muni, BART, Golden Gate Transit, SamTrans, Caltrain, AC Transit and other transit lines that serve the Bay Area.
Bay Area Newspapers: Visit the Web sites of Bay Area newspapers.
City and County of San Francisco Employment Center: A list of announcements and information for jobs that are open for filing with the City and County of San Francisco.
Friends of the Library: A member-supported, nonprofit organization that advocates, fundraises, and provides support to the San Francisco Public Library.
Project Homeless Connect: Sponsors a major event every other month as a one-stop shop of health and human services for homeless San Franciscans.
San Francisco Government: A guide to San Francisco government information from the Library's Government Information Center.

San Francisco History

City Guides: Free walking tours preserve and perpetuate the history and folklore of San Francisco and celebrate its rich cultural diversity.
San Francisco History Center: Re-live the founding, growth, and events that shaped San Francisco, including the Gold Rush and the 1906 earthquake and fire.
S.F. Historical Photograph Collection: Find more than 38,000 digitized images of San Francisco from 1850 to the present, including streets, buildings, and photographs of famous San Francisco personalities.