Vital Veggies was the first program of the Library’s Fast & Healthy Summer Cuisine series. These programs are sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and us! Chef Laura Stec, Innovative Cuisine, demonstrated easy ways to bring more health and happiness into your daily cooking and meals. “She was able to present a wealth of information in an entertaining yet educational manner,” …
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If you have a child in middle or high school, they probably have a list of suggested – or required – books to read over the summer. We reach out to the local middle and high schools to get those lists; then we put those books on their own cart just outside the bookstore door …
You may have heard that there’s a new Whole Foods coming to Santa Clara. This is exciting for the city and all the people who work and live near the new location. They’re going to be able to get delicious lunches and groceries before the summer is out. We are excited because this store has chosen …
You may already follow the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends on Facebook and Twitter. We try to keep things different and interesting on those pages too – highlighting book recommendations and library activities and other interesting things going on in the community. But now we have another way to keep in touch with the …
The computer lab in the Central Park Library has new, bigger monitors! We were happy to buy these for the library – they’re going to be so useful to the library’s patrons as they are able to do more. They’ll be perfect for the new Lynda.com database!
Our June book sale is today at Central Park library! Join us from 10am – 2pm to buy all kinds of books. We have loads of children’s, fiction, computer books, and more in the Margie Edinger room. We hope to see you there!
Last month, the Teen department put on a party for all the Teens who use and support the library. It was Great Gatsby themed, and it looks like it was a great time. It’s fabulous to see all these happy faces!
Last month, the California Library Association awarded our library an award for its marketing and PR work for the STEM Bowl they hosted last winter. Some of the committee members’ comments were: “WOW. What a fantastic campaign and program. Although I can tell this took an immense amount of work, the dividends were immense. Great …
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It’s big check time! We’d like to say thanks to Keypoint Credit Union for their continued support of the Library’s Summer Reading Program. Doron Noyman officially presented the check to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends at the first Monday night summer reading concert on June 13. Thanks so much to Keypoint for sponsoring …
Have you ever come to the Central Park Library and found that there were a bunch of red carts filled with books for sale out front? Those are our patio sales! We hold the patio sales on weekends, as needed. There will be one, for example, on Saturday June 11 from 1-4pm to coincide with …