This was a great TED talk about how finding books from around the world brought out the best in people. If you’re trying to find a book, translated into English, to read from Indonesia or Nigeria or Sao Tome (a small Portugese-speaking island off the coast of Africa), where do you start looking? This sounds like a …
Did you know that the third annual Love Our Library Lollapalooza has a Great Gatsby theme? It’s true! The music will be jazz, there will be champagne flowing, and we are having lots of fun finding Great Gatsby-themed décor. But you know what would make it even more Great Gatsby-eqsue? If you, our guests, would …
The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends is proud to be one of the sponsors for Silicon Valley Reads! The books this year are The Memory of Water and Sherwood Nation. We hope you can read along and attend some of the events over the next few months.
Registration is open for the Love our Library Lollapalooza! Come and join us for an evening of fun, food, and fundraising. We are proud to honor the Mission City Community Fund, who have been so wonderful about helping the library in so many ways! Santa Clara Vanguard will be providing music and Mission College Culinary Arts …
The Foundation & Friends is proud to support Santa Clara City Library’s first ever winter reading program! Sign-up is super-easy: just grab a form the next time you’re in the Central Park library. Adults & teens, read or listen to two or more books; kids & families, read (or listen) to ten or more books! …
The Santa Clara City Library is hosting a STEM Innovation Bowl on January 30! This event is going to have some awesome and fun things like: Virtual and Augmented Reality stations Telepresence Robots 3D Gaming Creating Mosaics Building with Blocks and Straws and more! The program is recommended for children in grades 6 and up, …
Our monthly book sale is this Saturday, January 16th from 10am – 2pm at the Central Park Library. We’ll have hundreds of books to help you meet your new year’s resolutions, be it learning a new language or eating better or whatever your resolutions are. Are you a Friends member? If so, the sale will …
The Library’s Book Discussion group, run by librarian Morgan Pershing, has announced their books for 2016! You can find the full list below, or it’s on the library’s website. January 26 – Memory of Water (Part of Silicon Valley Reads) February 23 – Whistling Season March 22 – Everything I Never Told You April 26 – …
The library keeps pretty close track of how their facilities get used – they are a public institution, after all! Here are the latest statistics: 1,132,723 people visited the library 26,937 children enjoyed the library 16,039 children borrowed something from the library There were 137,625 sessions on public computers 373 programs were presented to children at …
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