The Anne T. Kent California Room is an archive dedicated to collecting and preserving information on local, regional, and state history with a strong emphasis on the history and culture of Marin County. Resources include photographs, oral histories, biography files, maps, books, directories, voter registers, local newspaper clippings, documents and ephemera.

HISTORY
In the early 1930s, County Librarian, Virginia Keating, started what was to become the California Room with a small collection of books kept in a locked case in the basement of the old Marin County Courthouse in San Rafael (the first home of the Marin County Free Library). The California Room is named after Anne T. Kent, who, in the 1920s, was instrumental in establishing the Marin County Free Library System and in 1974, with Carla Ehat, pioneered the California Room oral history program. Since 1962, the collection has been housed in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Marin County Civic Center.

DONATIONS
Our archive continues to grow, thanks to the generous donations of generations of Marin County citizens. If you have material which you think would be of interest to our collection, please contact California Room Librarian, Laurie Thompson, at: ljthompson@co.marin.ca.us or (415) 499-3661.

SCHEDULE A VISIT
Phone: (415) 499-7419
E-mail: ljthompson@co.marin.ca.us
Address: 3501 Civic Center Dr. Suite 427
San Rafael, CA, 94903
Directions

DIGITAL ARCHIVIST
Carol Uhrmacher: cuhrmacher@co.marin.ca.us