Month: September 2012

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David Stringer-Calvert honored with “Nancy Toledo Leadership Award”

At the Fall 2012 Grant Party, David Stringer-Calvert was honored as the second person awarded the “Nancy Toledo Leadership Award” by the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends.  David has served as a past board member, current member of the Northside Library Construction Oversight committee, had helped at Saturday book sales for many years, …

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Library Foundation Grant Party awards over $20,000 to library programs

At the semi-annual Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends Grant Party, over 50 volunteers gathered in the Cedar room at Central Library. There, they heard presentations from the library staff about different programs that could be funded with monies raised in the Friends bookstore and Saturday sales.  After the votes were tallied, thirteen different …

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Judging A Book By Its Cover

The following was written by Kim Wulfhorst, a Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends volunteer.  I was sitting in the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends’ (SCCLFF) Bookstore where I volunteer by selling used books. I began to wonder about the phrase “You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.” I said to …

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Teen Moms Gain New Understanding of the Power of the Written Word

Through a grant from the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust, teen moms at the Young Parents Center in Santa Clara were introduced to a world of books geared specifically to their interests. Classroom teachers read aloud The Circuit, an autobiography by Dr. Francisco Jimenez of his early life as a farm worker’s child and illegal immigrant …

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