The Sitting Room: A Community Library

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Since 1981, the privately funded Sitting Room, with its collection of more than 7,000 donated volumes and many magazines and small press books, has been "a place of solace and comfort in a brash and busy world."

The Sitting Room is open to all responsible members of the community who are genuinely interested in women's issues and achievements. Housed in a Cotati office building, the three cozy rooms offer a quiet place to browse, research, read, write, and converse--yes, here you can talk, and even eat, without any reprimand! Library users check out books designated for circulation by the "blue dot," according to the honor system explained at the check-out desk.

The Sitting Room also sponsors special events, such as readings and conversations with writers, along with on-going writers' workshops and book discussion groups. However, the individual reader is always welcome here whatever is going on and there is a Quiet Room for those seeking refuge from meetings and talk.

It seems to work, the easy balance of congeniality, privacy, and trust unique to our The Sitting Room.

You may wonder about our curiously loose organization.
How to Join?
How to check out books?
This and other answers are now on our FAQ page.

Fall 2008 Newsletter
Our fabulous Newsletter is here. Both Sitting Room and local events are listed, including workshops and book-related activities. Fill in your Calendar now.

IN MEMORIAM
Nuala O'Faolain, 1940-2008.
Paula Gunn Allen, 1939-2008.

Because we enjoy fostering writing as much as reading, we are pleased to provide the Sonoma County Writers' Monthly Guide, a Calendar of Events edited by Terry Ehret.

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"How many years have I been coming to the Sitting Room and am just beginning to place words in this [journal]....I feel so honored to have a key, and with it, trust. These books are our babies, we're their mothers."

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