This year, SCCLFF sponsored the Santa Clara City Library’s Comic Con! This was a hugely successful event, drawing over 11,000 people from all over Silicon Valley. It featured Dave Filoni, executive producer for Star Wars Rebels (and more!), Lego contests, artists from Pixar, lots of cosplay… it was amazing. Of course the 101st Legion showed …
Join us October 15 at 10 AM for the unveiling of Santa Clara Public Library’s Bike Fixit Station. The Library’s Bike Fixit Station has a bike stand and a set of attached theft-resistant tools, from Allen wrenches to screwdrivers to tire levers and more. The Fixit Station also includes a heavy duty theft-proof pump that …
This is so exciting! Ellin Klor, family literacy librarian with Read Santa Clara, has been named runner-up for the 2016 Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year Award! With the award comes a $5,000 grant to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends to support Read Santa Clara, the Santa Clara City Library’s adult …
Bandai Namco sponsored our teen summer reading program this year. As part of that, they hosted an event for some of the teen winners last month! There was a LOT of game playing. They got to play some games that hadn’t been released yet! One of our librarians went old school in their arcade. Everyone …
The Santa Clara Library Comic Con is tomorrow! This is going to be a super-fun event with: a talk from Star Wars Rebels Executive Producer Dave Filoni a panel on Women in Comics, including Heather Campbell, Nidhi Chanani, and Branwyn Bigglestone A presentation called from Story to Screen by Pixar storyboard artist Le Tang lego …
We are incredibly proud to announce that the 49ers selected Betsy Megas, long time literacy tutor with Read Santa Clara and former head of the Library Board of Trustees, as a winner of the Community Quarterback award! Betsy has done valuable and fabulous work tutoring adult English-language learners, supporting the library, as well as lots …
We’ve recently updated our volunteer listings! If you have a couple of hours during the week and can safely lift some books, we’d love to have you help us out. Right now, we could really use a couple of people on Tuesday mornings to help us sort books – if you know books, this is …
Last month, we celebrated Northside Library’s 2nd Anniversary! It was a Harry Potter-themed day, and the crowds were huge. It’s blurry, but Northside’s head librarian is full of energy! Supporting Gryffindor Quidditch. Playing quidditch. Doing a Harry Potter-themed craft. We raffled off 4 copies of the new Harry Potter play to raise money! These were …
We have decided not to hold the Holiday Craft Fair. It was not an easy decision to make, and we appreciate your understanding.
A huge thanks to everyone who shopped at the new Whole Foods Market in Santa Clara yesterday! We got to hang out with Eddie, the store manager. One of our long-time volunteers stopped by to say hello! As did one of the people who works at the library. And not one, but two groups of …