Book covers selected from Humanities Center Staff Picks Fall 2024 list.

General Collections & Humanities Center - 3rd Floor

Address

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

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The General Collections and Humanities Center offers a circulating and library-use-only collection of encyclopedias and dictionaries, and books covering the subjects of library & information science, journalism, arcane knowledge, philosophy, psychology, religion, social sciences, education, linguistics, literature, geography, travel, history, biography and more. Be sure and visit our African American Center and James C. Hormel LGBTQIA+ Center, also located on the third floor. 

On Display at the Reference Desk

Be sure to visit us on the 3rd Floor for rotating curated book displays. Currently on display November-December 2024:

Books About Books: Book lovers, rejoice! Just for you, we've curated a selection of books about books: memoirs of bookselling and publishing, compendiums of book recommendations, the pleasures of reading, the history of the book and more.