Subject: Michelle Jeffers

• Is That a Corn Cob In Your Pocket -- Or Are You Just Happy To See the Library?

  Unlike the contents of a can of Pringles, this card is entirely made of cornFor a product that most often makes its way into San Francisco's attention span due to tortilla tossing, attacks on trans-fats, and, of course, unfortunate fecal jokes, corn is damn near ubiquitous. The good folks at Corn Products International boast you can use the tooth-jamming vegetable for everything "from fruit juices to frozen foods ... antibiotics to adhesives ... baked goods to beers ... paper to pet foods." Garr

  April 7, 2009

• S.F. Library's Simple, Smart Move Could Save Miles of Paper

  Thanks to the San Francisco Public Library, receipts like this may be a thing of the pastWhen it comes down to a choice between actually helping the environment and having folks gape in wonder at the "futuristic," "21st-century," "next-generation" solutions proposed to help the environment, it's depressing how many people and organizations opt for the latter. We've written in this space many times about how the greenest thing this city could do would be to foster a functional public transportati

  June 9, 2009

• S.F. Library Amnesty Period Reclaims More Than 29,000 Overdue Items, Including Book Due Back During Johnson Administration

  Returning library books on time can be tough, and everybody has their reasons. In fact, as part of the San Francisco Public Library's most recent amnesty campaign, those who returned items were asked to give their best excuses. It turns out, a second grader named Vanessa was too busy learning about and assisting sea creatures to return her books. A man named Gil was sabotaged by his sister, who checked out the Babe DVD under his name, hid it, and left town. A&

  June 18, 2009

• San Francisco Giant Misses His Date to Read to Kiddies at Library -- As He's Been Demoted to Minor Leagues

  It's a good bet that Emmanuel Burriss would have loved to be in San Fran today reading to the kiddies rather than suiting up to play Minor League ball in FresnoWhether professional ballplayers really enjoy the litany of camera-friendly community events they're trotted out to is a matter only known by the athletes, their significant others, their psychiatrists, team management -- basically, everyone but us. But last year the San Francisco Giants' likable young second baseman, Emmanuel Burriss, ma

  July 7, 2009

• San Francisco Library's Usage, Circulation Skyrocketing -- But This Is Not a Good Thing

  stuffunemployedpeoplelike.comYeah, we thought it was Zach Galifianakis too. It's Joaquin Phoenix -- and be quiet or he'll eat you.​You've got to salute someone who finds a way to succeed in down times. The man who invented and marketed the bindle -- he must have cleaned up during the Great Depression. Along those lines, the San Francisco Public Library this week happily crowed that it is serving 30 percent more people than it did at this time last year and checking out 15 percent more material

  July 30, 2009