Your year-end gift to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends makes for happy, bright shining faces across Santa Clara and Silicon Valley! These girls have books because of generous donors. Your support allows the library to host classes that introduce children to music! The library can host workshops like the repair …
If you’re sneaking in a couple of purchases from Amazon at work today, please use Amazon Smile! It’s a great way to support us and get your holiday shopping done at the same time. Thank you for your support!
The Children’s Department at Central Public Library is holding a short fiction contest! Turn in your 600-word entries on or before November 30, 2017. Prizes will be announced in mid-December. Check out the webpage for more information. Need some ideas? Here are a few writing prompts to get you started: A group of children on …
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Check out the wrap-up video for Comic Con this year! Ken from Bay Tiger Video did a great job, as always with it. Take a watch!
I heard through the grapevine that the Day of the Dead storytime at Northside was a success, so I reached out to the librarian who ran it. Her story of the day is beautiful. The Friday we held the Day of the Dead Storytime, I had a patron later that afternoon who said she really …
We had a great time at the fundraising event for the Mission City Community Fund last Saturday! MCCF, as they are known around these parts, donates money to the Foundation & Friends for both the Summer Reading and Family Literacy programs. So we are more than happy to help them raise money and celebrate all …
The Foundation & Friends is sponsoring the Library’s Winter Reading Bingo this holiday season. Pick up your age-appropriate bingo card at a reference desk today! You can complete a card by reading four different books or doing different activities before January 14. It’s that easy! There are various prizes for different age groups, and everyone …
If you keep up with the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends, you know how much the library does for its customers. The Youth Services (aka Children’s) department does an especially great job reaching out to the families of Silicon Valley. They host storytimes, music classes, science events, summer reading, and so much more! …
Stories from happy library customers are the best! I found the librarians in the youth section extremely helpful and knowledgeable. I had many conversations and questions with them regarding what to do. They always impressed me with their answers. For example, [r]ecently, my son was working on a mystery book report. I was helping him …
Each fall, for the past eighteen years, Read Santa Clara has partnered with the Rotary Club at Steps for Success events in elementary schools, allowing children from low-income families to get new shoes and great children’s books to take home. This year, 314 children received gift books at fun events at Scott Lane and Montague …