Free2

Your dreams. Our knowledge. Welcome to Free2, a new campaign designed to raise awareness of how libraries in the Bay Area are empowering our lives every day. Free2 celebrates how libraries help give us the freedom to explore, imagine, connect, create and succeed. Learn more and get more. For free.

What You Can Do
There are a lot of easy ways to get involved in Free2.

Add Us As a Friend
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Tell a Friend
We need your help in spreading the word about this campaign. Please take a moment to send a message about Free2 to your friends and family. Who doesn’t remember going to their local library?

Be Free2Volunteer
The Free2 campaign needs volunteers to help produce programs and related outreach activities. Your local library also needs you. Please let us know if you have the time or interest in volunteering.

Wear Free2
Our online store will launch soon. In the meantime, you can make your own Free2 T-shirt. ..Here’s how...

Create a Group
The library is the ideal place to play games, cram for a test, discuss a book or catch-up on email. So, next time your looking for a place to meet up with friends, start with the library. ..Start here...

Support Free2
Your tax deductible gift to the Free2 Campaign will help expand library programs and services in your area. Proceeds go directly to benefit the Bay Area Library & Information System, Peninsula Library System and Silicon Valley System. More than 165 locations are dedicated to bringing you the services, resources and programs you need to succeed every day. Thank you for helping support your library.

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Free2 is for all of us who believe in libraries and their potential to be 21st century community centers of the highest order.

Conceived and supported by the 165 locations throughout the Bay Area Library & Information System, Peninsula Library System and Silicon Valley Library System, the Free2 campaign celebrates the empowering role that libraries play in our lives.

Thanks to libraries, we surf. We game. We discover new worlds. We laugh and cry our way through good reads. We research new business ideas. We learn English as a second language. We attend lectures. We do yoga. We connect with friends and family.

No matter where we come from, no matter how young or old, no matter how big our dreams, Free2 recognizes that libraries help give us the freedom to connect, create, imagine, explore and succeed in ways that we never thought possible.

Indeed, the question is not whether libraries are relevant today. But whether they can keep pace with the increased demand for their services and materials. With your help, they can.

By supporting Free2, you are standing up for the enduring value of libraries. You are helping us shed the stereotypes. You are starting a dialogue about the best way libraries to keep libraries open and accessible. In the end, all of us are Free2, and that’s inspiring.