Photo Story: Chinatown Northbeach has a new home

A view of the entire Chinatown/North Beach campus on Aug. 28, 2012. The site opened in July for summer session and an open house is scheduled for Sept. 21. Photo by Sara Bloomberg/The Guardsman

A poem written in Chinese cascades down a window in the library of the new Chinatown Northbeach campus. Photo by Sara Bloomberg/The Guardsman

The Language Media Center at the new Chinatown Northbeach campus isn’t open yet. Library Coordinator Daniel Bradford says that the software required for the computers needs to be fixed. Photo by Sara Bloomberg/The Guardsman

Students use the library at the new Chinatown Northbeach campus. Photo by Sara Bloomberg/The Guardsman

The library at the new Chinatown Northbeach campus is fully functional, but some features will be introduced over time. “There’s still a to do list for the rest of the year,” Library Coordinator Daniel Bradford said. He explained that there are private study rooms for students to reserve and they have two library assistants that are fluent in both English and Mandarin. They still have to fix the operating systems on the computers, he said, but in the meantime there are plenty of outlets for students to plug in their own devices. Photo by Sara Bloomberg/The Guardsman

People come and go from City College’s new Chinatown Northbeach campus at Kearny and Washington streets in San Francisco on Aug. 28, 2012. The site opened in July for summer session and an open house is scheduled for Sept. 21. Photo by Sara Bloomberg/The Guardsman

People come and go at City College’s new Chinatown Northbeach campus at Kearny and Washington streets in San Francisco, Calif., on Aug. 28, 2012. The site opened in July for summer session and an open house is scheduled for Sept. 21. Photo by Sara Bloomberg/The Guardsman

Many signs are written in English and in Chinese at City College’s new Chinatown Northbeach campus. Photo by Sara Bloomberg/The Guardsman

A piano from the old Chinatown Northbeach campus sits in the lobby of the new campus and waits to be disposed. Photo by Sara Bloomberg/The Guardsman