Month: January 2017

What’s on the menu?

“I don’t think I’ve ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.” -Truman Capote We’ve been working to finalize the Librarypalooza menu, and we’re so happy that it gets to be breakfast-themed! There will be champagne (of course!), along with mini potato pancakes, small waffles, deviled eggs, pigs …

Tour Hall Wineries

Librarypalooza 2017 is happening this weekend! We’ll have a small live auction, and you can see all the auction items listed on our website. One of the items we have for auction is a Tour for 4 at Hall Wineries in St Helena. From their website: Start our signature tour with a glass of Sauvignon …

Buy a book plate at Librarypalooza!

This year at the Librarypalooza, we will be selling bookplates for new books added to the Library collection. Celebrate an engagement, wedding, birth, baptism, confirmation, birthday, anniversary, graduation, personal accomplish or any special occasion with a book dedicated to that special someone. Your book plate will be placed inside one of the new books at …

Happy Lunar New Year!

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate today! We would like to thank the anonymous patron who donated via the traditional red envelope this year. We are honored.

Thanks to our biggest sponsors!

We would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to our two biggest librarypalooza sponsors, Related Companies and SummerHill Housing Group. They are our Pulitzer and National Book Award Sponsors, respectively, and they are a big part of what makes Librarypalooza work. So: thank you to Related and SummerHill for supporting Santa Clara City Library Foundation …

Giveaways and decor…

I love sharing photos of all the goodies we’re collection for Librarypalooza! This is a collage of various things we’ve collected to help create our Breakfast at Tiffany’s theme, including (fake) pearls and a cigarette holder. It’s going to be so much fun! There’s still time to register for this fabulous event on February 4th. …

Ticket prices go up tomorrow!

Have you registered for Librarypalooza yet? Well, why not? It’s going to be full of great people, music, and food. There will be a fabulous auction with lots of great prizes, and we’ll be honoring Jerome and Judy Nadler for all the wonderful things they’ve done for the library over the years. Prices go up …