Golden Gate Branch

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Branch Address

5606 San Pablo Avenue
Oakland, CA  94608
(510) 597-5023

Branch Hours

Monday: 
Closed
Tuesday: 
12:30pm - 8:00pm
Wednesday: 
10:00am - 5:30pm
Thursday: 
10:00am - 5:30pm
Friday: 
12:00pm - 5:30pm
Saturday: 
10:00am - 5:30pm
Sunday: 
Closed

About the Golden Gate Branch

Golden Gate has a collection of approximately 35,000 items. Circulating materials are largely of popular interest with a strong emphasis on fiction and jazz music. (Golden Gate is well known for its Golden Gate Friends sponsored Summer Jazz on Sundays series. The African American collection is one of the largest branch collections in the system.

Special-interest collections include a small Performing Art Collection (including storytelling, reader's theatre, puppetry, and drama), and a collection of Chess "how-to" books for all ages. The East Indian collection includes books for adults and children in Hindi and Punjabi, DVDs of Hindi cinema ("Bollywood"), and CDs of many genres of classical, folk, and pop music from India.

The branch is equipped with thirteen (13) computers with Internet access and word processing available for public use.

Meeting Room

The branch meeting room has a capacity of 50 people.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, May 25th, 2013
Event Name Time
Baby Bounce 11:00am
Early Potty-Training 11:00am
Knitting Club 2:00pm
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
Event Name Time
Preschool Storytime 10:30am
Weekly Art Workshop with MOCHA 3:00pm
Saturday, June 1st, 2013
Event Name Time
Baby Bounce 11:00am
Knitting Club 2:00pm
Saturday, June 8th, 2013
Event Name Time
Knitting Club 2:00pm
Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
Event Name Time
Poetry Freewrite 6:15pm
Saturday, June 15th, 2013
Event Name Time
Summer Reading Kick-Off 10:30am