Folder: S.F. Libraries-SFPL-Main-Sutro Library.
Newscopy: "WORTH MONEY--The Sutro Library valued at more than a million dollars, is prized by world scholars but it's never had a proper home of its own. Currently the valuable books, pamphlets and paper are stored in the basement of the Main Library like this.".
Newscopy: "By Jack Loughner--The Sutro Library, a 100,000 volume collection of books dating back to the 12th century, may have a home of its own at last. A "guest" of the city since 1923, the library is stacked for the most part on shelves in the basement of the Main Library at Civic Center. Its staff occupies a cramped office on the second floor. All this makes the Sutro librarian, Richard H. Dillon, feel something like a tenement housewife trying to entertain royalty. "Frank Baxter (TV Shakespeare expert) wants to come in and see our Shakespeare material, but I'm almost ashamed to have him see the place," Dillon said, peering around at the sepulchral basement storage room...".
