I just got back from delivering postcards to five branches of the San Francisco Public Library: Glen Park, Parkside (on Taraval Street), Ortega, Sunset, and Merced, and I really appreciate the supportive comments the librarians made about City College, especially at the Merced Branch. The librarian who took the CCSF postcards said, "Let's find a prominent place for them because this is very important." The librarian standing by told me that she had taken art classes and a lot of other classes at City College and could hardly express how much she loved the college. She complimented me on my orange-segment earrings and said she'd seen some fig earrings like mine at the Farmer's Market. I explained that they were from my sister in Chicago but that someone who'd signed the petition outside another library had told me she'd seen fig earrings like mine at the Farmer's Market. The librarian then asked whether I was the signature gatherer when she signed a petition for CCSF at that Market. I told her I'd done most of my signature gathering at Yerba Buena Garden.
I took pictures of each display of our new postcards "We are the heartbeat of City College," and I'm happy to say that in most cases they were prominently displayed. However, at one branch there was a postcards still there from two semesters ago--but just one. At the West Portal Branch of the SFPL, there was still a stack of CCSF postcards I'd delivered in December 2021! (Otherwise, it's a great library.) I think it was at the Glen Park Library that a librarian said, "Yes, people do take these postcards, and they used to take the catalogs, but I guess they're not being printed up so much anymore." I told her I would pass on her comment!
