Prelinger Library

[2] The library is usually open one and one-half days a week, and hosts approximately 1,000 visitors per year.

The library is unusual in that it uses a custom system of organization designed by Megan that intends to facilitate and emphasize browsing.

[3] His disciple Fritz Saxl wrote: "The overriding idea was that the books together—each containing its larger or smaller bit of information and being supplemented by its neighbors—should by their titles guide the student to perceive the essential forces of the human mind and its history."

Likewise, the Prelingers' library in part addresses the relationships among intellectual property, the evolution of media and cultural production.

We serve tea, and we encourage photography and scanning and any other form of non-destructive appropriation.