The Blog
Keep up to date on the latest Foundation projects and publications supporting the California State Library.
![Announcing The Kevin Starr California Literacy Fund](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/starr-larger-res-216x300_f_improf_216x300-216x284.jpg)
The Kevin Starr California Literacy Fund
California Library Literacy Services (CLLS) is a state-funded program ...
![The Passing of Dr. Kevin Starr](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/starr-larger-res-216x300_f_improf_216x300-216x284.jpg)
The California State Library Foundation is deeply saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Dr. Kevin Starr on ...
![Help needed to preserve new Pony Express collection!](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Pony-Express-400x284.jpg)
Dear Readers,
The California State Library Foundation seeks to raise funds to design and build two display ...
![New Bulletin Available!!](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Hoffman-color-1-1-400x284.jpg)
The California State Library and its Sutro Library branch in San Francisco make available for public research an ...
![Out of the Vault: Treasures from YOUR State Library](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Out-of-the-Vault-new-display-10_14_16-400x284.jpg)
The California State Capitol Museum and California State Library have partnered on an exciting exhibit featuring ...
![Selling, taming, and documenting California](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Oranges-compressed-for-blog-400x284.jpg)
The California State Library Foundation Bulletin (#114) is available in a full-color pdf on our ...
![Mattie Taormina Named Director of San Francisco’s Sutro Library](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/s200_mattie.taormina.jpg)
By California State Library Staff
Veteran special collections and archives librarian Mattie Taormina has been ...
![Dr. Robert Chandler on African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/soapbox-label-in-jpeg-400x284.jpg)
Dr. Robert J. Chandler Gives Lively and Informative Talk on African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown and Makes ...
![Digitizing a GIANT Map](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/county_library_map0007-400x284.jpg)
By Vincent Beiderbecke, California State Library, Information Technology Bureau
Recently library staff unfurled ...
![A Night at the State Library presents: Fortune to the Bold: How French Argonauts Struck it Rich in Gold Rush California](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/arrivee-400x284.jpg)
Historian and author Dr. Claudine Chalmers will speak at the California State Library on January 13 on the ...
![Happy Holidays, and THANK YOU, from the California State Library Foundation](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/king-frost-donner-1930s-400x284.jpg)
As 2015 draws to a close we want to thank our members and contributors for helping us support the State Library's ...
![Long-time Directors Retire from CSLF Board](https://cslfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/basye-noack-jr.-400x284.jpg)
The Foundation's holiday luncheon, held on December 2nd this year was part celebration, part send-off. Amid ...
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The California State Library Foundation needs your help to protect the Library’s culturally essential services and vast collection containing millions of artifacts. While the Library does receive funding from state and federal governments, ever-increasing competition for those funds means looking beyond tax revenue to accomplish objectives. You can make a difference!