Year: 2010

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Beautiful Foundation grants $6000 to the Santa Clara Library Foundation & Friends

Volunteers of the Beautiful Foundation and the teen group “In Our Unity” (IOU) raised $6,000 to invest in resources for Korean-American children, adults, and families at the Santa Clara City Library.  The funds will go to purchase materials for children, many of whom were born in the U.S., who want to learn more about the …

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2001 Book Sale Dates Altered

Book sales will be held every month except December during 2011. Unlike previous years, SEVERAL SALES WILL NOT OCCUR on the THIRD SATURDAY due to Library holiday closures. In January and February, the sale will be held on the FOURTH Saturday of the month; March through November, the sales will be held on the THIRD …

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$27,000 Granted to Library Programs

On Monday September 27, 2010, Foundation and Friends members and volunteers met. The meeting was a semi-annual social event which included viewing movies made by Library staff and young patrons, enjoying popcorn and hot dogs, and deciding which programs requested by the Library staff received $27,000 in grants. The grant money was accumulated over approximately …

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Laptops for Literacy

“The laptop has been helping me learn more. I like to use it because it’s easy and fun.” —Silvester G. Silvester and other adult learners in the Read Santa Clara program have benefitted from the Library’s acquisition of six Dell laptops that help bridge the “digital divide,” using technology to help adults with limited literacy …

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Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online is now available through the Library website. Safari Books Online offers computer, technical, and business books from publishers such as O’Reilly, Peachpit Press, and Que, in electronic formats (PDF and HTML) that you can read online using a standard web browser. From the Electronic Resources page (http://bit.ly/a7Z8qa), choose the Safari Books Online …

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Meet Julie Passalacqua, Santa Clara’s New City Librarian

By Lance Jacobs, Foundation and Friends Volunteer June of 2010 saw the appointment of Julie Passalacqua as the new Santa Clara City Librarian. While this post is something new for Julie, there is little she has not experienced in her 35-year tenure with the Santa Clara City Library. Previously the Assistant City Librarian, Julie has …

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Getting out of the reading rut!

Is your to-read shelf a gazillion miles long but wholly unenticing? Does that pile next to your bed consist of books that only held your interest for a few pages? Is your usual tried-and-true genre letting you down? Sounds like you’re in a reading rut—but all hope is not lost! It’s simply time to branch …

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