The Library consistently receives high marks in the San Francisco Controller's annual survey of San Francisco residents. Library service ranks especially high. The Library system showed a marked increase in usage as a result of the passage of the Library Preservation Fund in June 1994. Meeting rooms were not available for the public in the old Main. SFPL continues to work on improving the book budget.
Urban legend is alive and growing.
In 1996 a novelist and sometime essayist, in an article written for The New Yorker, implied that the Library had discarded 100,000 volumes in its move to the Main Library. Two years ago, in a television interview, the author doubled that number to 200,000. SFPL Post Occupancy Evaluation, Ripley Architects, 2-5. Music to Your Ears As of April, library patrons can now check out four CDs per library card instead of two. These answers and more can be quickly found at the Library using a database called General BusinessFile ASAP .