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Making a purchase request for the MI collections is a popular and extensively used benefit of membership. Suppose you recently read a book review of a title that you look forward to reading. You check the Library catalog and discover that the book is not held in the collection. Fill this gap by requesting that we acquire the item.

Each month, the Library receives eighty-plus purchase suggestions, mainly for fiction titles and non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects, as well as D...

Hi Writers!

We’re more than ½ way through with National Novel Writers Month (time flies!) and by now you know if you’re sticking with it or not. To those of you who are, congratulations! To the ones who haven't had the time, energy, or ability to write 5-7 pages a day, that’s okay! We hope you’re still writing at all!

Either way, if you take writing seriously, you may want to consider a writing group. While many writers are solitary (and certain...

NNWM (Or Any Writing) Pep-talk

Consistency

We think of the consistent writer as one who writes every day, plugging away word by word and sentence by sentence, slowly but surely completing a novel. Surely many writers are like this. But if you think of consistency as an everyday, bit-by-bit endeavor, then many writers aren’t what one would call “consistent” in their practice.

The creative pro...

Fall has finally come to San Francisco, and as the weather turns cooler my mind inevitably turns to one thing: food. The fall and winter months always remind me of seasonal foods, between pumpkin spiced everything, the apple and cranberry crisp I bake every year for Thanksgiving, and the numerous cookies, cakes, and candies that start popping up wherever one goes in December.

I'm also someone who loves to cook, and I think of cooking dinner every day as my time to unwind. Cooking pres...