New Year Holiday Closures

The Excelsior Branch and all San Francisco Public Libraries will be closed starting at 5pm on Saturday, December 31, 2011, and all day Sunday, January 1, and Monday, January 2, 2012

We will resume our regular opening hours on Tuesday, January 3. Happy New Year!

Christmas Holiday Closures

The Excelsior Branch and all San Francisco Public Libraries will be closed for the Christmas holiday weekend on

Saturday, December 24
Sunday, December 25
Monday, December 26

A special Christmas holiday grace period is in effect and checked-out library materials will not be due during this three-day closure.

Happy holidays from all of us at Excelsior Branch!

全部舊金山市立圖書館為聖誕假日將在以下三天休息:

十二月二十四日星期六

十二月二十五日星期日

十二月二十六日星期一

請留意圖書館實施特別的聖誕節寬限期, 所有外借圖書館資料不用在12月24, 25及26日圖書館休假期間歸還.

En celebración de las Fiestas de Navidad, todas las Bibliotecas Públicas de San Francisco estaráran cerradas los días:

Sábado 24 de diciembre

Domingo 25 de diciembre
Lunes 26 de diciembre

Se ha establecido un periodo especial de gracia durante las fiestas de Navidad pare que ningún material prestado deba ser regresado los días 24, 25 y 26 de diciembre en que la biblioteca estará cerrada.

Basic Computer Class, Saturday, December 10, 3:30-5pm

Learn how to use a mouse and keyboard and other computer basics. This class is limited to 10 students, please call Excelsior Branch at 355-2868 to sign up.

Can't make it to class or want some more practice? Try some of these resources for beginning computer users!

Mouse tutorials

http://www.seniornet.org/howto/mouseexercises/mousepractice.html

http://www.lclshome.org/tutorials/mouse/index.htm

Mouse games

http://www.pbclibrary.org/mousing/games.htm

Typing tutorials

http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/tutor/lessons.php?lang=EN&lesson=1

http://www.powertyping.com/qwerty/lessonsq.html

http://www.typingweb.com/ (click on “No thanks, I don't want to register START TYPING now without saving your progress” to use without registering for the site)

Typing games

http://freeonlinetypinggames.com/free-online-typing-games/typing-trek/

http://games.yahoo.com/game/typer-shark

http://www.onlytypinggames.com/

Good list of more computer resources from Schenectady County Public Library

http://www.scpl.org/resources_services/internet_links/tutorials.html#keyboard

The Life and Art of Vincent van Gogh, Wednesday, December 7, 7pm

Join us for a lecture on the life and art of Vincent van Gogh for this month's Excelsior Branch Library Arts and Culture Salon!

Discover the joy, beauty, sorrow and genius of this amazing artist. View over 100 slides of van Gogh's art - paintings, drawings, lithographs, etchings - including rarely-seen childhood drawings, those from his early Dutch years, and photographs of him and his family. Hear stories about his life, his childhood, places he lived and jobs he held before he became an artist.

Marlene Aron is an artist, educator and published poet. She was educated in The Netherlands at the Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague, and in the United States, receiving her Master of Fine Arts Degree from California College of the Arts.