All Palo Alto libraries will be closed Monday, January 20 for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

We're holding two book sales this Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm.  We have tens of thousands of books are at our huge new well-lit book room, located at the Cubberley Community Center at 4000 Middlefield Road in south Palo Alto, between Charleston Road and San Antonio Road.

Once you're at Cubberley, you'll find our book room at the end of the north access road, adjacent to the Charleston Shopping Center.  We recommend that you not use the main Cubberley lot, because it's farther away.  We'll have signs out to guide you and to help you with parking.

Our bargain books will be sold at our Terman site at 661 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto during the same hours.

More information.  Road map to Cubberley.

Come enjoy a variety of Bay Area storytellers at the library's annual storytelling festival between 1 and 5 pm on Sunday, January 19 at the Children's Library at 1276 Harriet Street.  This much-loved event is for everyone 4 and older.

Join other Friends for a day trip by coach to the 36th California International Antiquarian Book Fair in downtown San Francisco on Saturday, February 8.  Over 230 booksellers from 25 states and nine countries will exhibit at the fair, offering rare and antiquarian books, manuscripts and related materials priced from a few dollars to hundreds of thousands.  The fair features early printed books, illustrated books, fine bindings, early American literature, modern first editions, children's books, maps, autographs, and antiquarian books on law, architecture, economics, gastronomy, wine and scores of other fields.  The trip is sponsored by the Associates of the Stanford University Libraries, and we're sure you'll enjoy meeting their members as well.  Tickets are $45 each and include admission to the fair, a light lunch at the fair, two seminars at the fair including Nicholas Basbanes speaking about book collecting strategy for the 21st century, and wine and cheese on the return ride.  The coach will leave at about 10:30 am from the Stanford campus and return at about 3:30 pm.  Seats on the coach are limited, so please reserve yours today by contacting Sally Treadway at (650) 723-9426 or treadway@stanford.edu.  More information about the fair.