If you had a book waiting at 1234 Valencia Street and kept Mission as your pickup branch, check your account before heading to 3359 24th Street. San Francisco Public Library’s Mission Branch reopened there on Saturday, November 14, Bay City News reported. The temporary branch and its book drop closed October 31.
The library’s November notice to patrons said it would transfer uncollected holds from the temporary branch to 24th Street and extend affected holds and loans through November 21. To see whether your own book is ready, check the holds section of the library’s catalog app before heading over.
For readers coming to browse, the shelving matters as much as the address. In its guide to the reopened collection, the library describes Spanish-language fiction and nonfiction and makes a distinction about how readers find books: Latino-interest titles are woven into the adult English-language shelves. The same guide lists an expanded children’s room on the ground floor and a new teen space on the main floor.
The branch page lists regular Sunday hours of 1 to 4 p.m. and Tuesday through Thursday hours of 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Cover photo: Mission Branch by Eric E Castro, CC BY 2.0. Resized; previews may be cropped.