Vintage Vinyl on the 4th Floor

We are very pleased to introduce a new collection of vinyl recordings to the San Francisco Public Library.  The Library has four "Vinyl Destinations" -- the AV Center on the 1st floor of the Main Library, the Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Branch, the Marina Branch, and the Park Branch.

Up to 1989, with the temporary closure of the Main Library following the Loma Prieta Earthquake, the Main Library collected nothing but vinyl recordings.  There are still more than 2,500 records from that collection housed on the 4th floor of the Main Library in the Art, Music and Recreation Center.

While the resurgence of interest in vinyl recordings is exciting, the marketplace for new vinyl seems to only extend to popular music styles like pop, rock, rhythm and blues and rap.  The vintage vinyl collection offers genres of music that we cannot represent well in our new collection like classical music, musical theater, world and folk music, and spoken word recordings.

So after perusing the shiny new vinyl collection on the 1st floor, consider taking an elevator ride to the 4th floor to browse through our eclectic collection of vintage vinyl.