Vice President Gillian Boal has set up a visit to a San Francisco landmark, the Prelinger Library, with its own unique geospatial taxonomy organization system.

The collection started as the personal book and ephemera collection of Megan Prelinger, then morphed eventually into an appropriation-friendly workshop supporting researchers of many diverse disciplines.

Megan and Rick Prelingers’ words regarding the organization of the library

"The main shelves are organized according to the library’s unique geospatial taxonomy. This arrangement system classifies subjects spatially and conceptually beginning with the physical world, moving into representation and culture, and ending with abstractions of society and theory. It can be summarized as a walk through a landscape of ideas, from feet-on-the-ground to outer space. Within that framework are dozens of associative links between subject sections, moving from site-specific, to mediated, to abstract; from particular to general, and from micro- to macro-. The geospatial system is set up in five rows, each row holding part of the structure in a consistent series of smaller sections."

The visit will be on February 19 evening so please note that this diverges from our typical events pattern of the first Tuesday of the month

RSVP to eventshbc3@gmail.com