You’ve helped make 2015 an amazing year at the Santa Clara City Library. We celebrated Northside Library’s first year and Mission Library’s 60th! The library hosted over 300 programs and circulated almost 2.5 million items. None of that would have happened without you. Your donation to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends will continue to make …
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The Santa Clara Library has been nominated for a Helen Putnam Award for its Sustainable U initiative! What’s Sustainable U? It’s a set of programs to help Santa Clarans live a healthier lifestyle. It’s things like: The seed library, where you can pick up and drop off seeds Being a delivery point for both CSA (community supported …
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It is year-end donation season! Your donation to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends helps make the library a center of life-long learning. Your gift at any level will be appreciated! A gift of $200 could buy a Kindle filled with classic titles and popular genres. Your gift of $500 could pay for laptops to support …
Read Santa Clara and the Mission Library have a display of letters to Santa in the trophy case at City Hall. It is adorable! It includes this gem: And this one, which might put a little dust in your eye: Donate today so we can help more kids write letters to Santa!
Liberated in the Library by Pat Bustamente, a poet To be welcomed is to feel esteemed… That warm feeling of highlights high-beamed… This is a place that for sure some good books Will fit the mood perfectly if one really looks. And the guardians of these treasures Certainly add to the pleasures… Polite, understanding, …
Reminder: The Central Library is getting new carpeting starting today! This fabulous improvement, however, means that the library (and our bookstore) will be open only limited hours for the next few weeks. The hours are: Mon – Sat: 10am – 6pm Sunday 1-5pm After December 23rd, the bookstore will be closed until Jan 5th, so …
November 21st was International Games Day! This is a family-friendly event hosted by libraries and other groups around the world. There were events in Australia, Europe, and all across the Americas. Santa Clara Library was happy to participate and the Foundation was proud to support this community-building event. In the words of one participant: I’d …
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Jan Lieberman is former librarian at Santa Clara library, is a long-time library supporter, and has been active in Santa Clara for longer than it’s polite to talk about. She turned 85 a couple of weeks ago, and her friends threw her a party. At the party, they were proud to announce the new Jan …
Our Holiday Craft Faire is tomorrow. Your fellow Santa Clarans have made some wonderful things – scarves and jewelry and more! We will also have a book sale on the patio outside the library. Stop by tomorrow between 10am and 4pm, and buy a present for a loved one or maybe even a treat for …
A HUGE thank you to everyone who donated yesterday during Giving Tuesday! We wouldn’t exist without your generosity. Giving Tuesday is just one component of our year-end donation drive. Your donations help us provide all kinds of programs and supplies to the library throughout the year. So if you didn’t get a chance to donate …