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The Humanities Center on the 3rd Floor at SFPL's Main Library offers a circulating and library-use-only collection of books and digital resources 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 3rd Floor.
Stop by the General Collections & Humanities Reference Desk to find librarians with subject knowledge in each of our collection areas.
What's on Display at the Reference Desk
November-December 2025
National Native American Heritage Month: a curated selection of Native American history and heritage books from the Humanities Collection of SFPL, which sits on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone.
Related: First Person events at SFPL.