When you are supporting your library, you’re supporting your community. You’re supporting a place for children to learn to read. You’re supporting a place where new immigrants can come to make friends and learn English. You’re supporting a place where kids can get extra STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) lessons. You’re supporting a …
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You want more people to know how to read Comic Con is fun! Summer Adventure helps keep you and your children active while school is out. You’ve been learning how to eat healthier with the Healthy You, Healthy Me cooking series. Your student is learning about science in the library’s STEAM Labs. The bookmobile visited …
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This is a chart of the overall places the Foundation and Friends helped out The Santa Clara City Library during the last fiscal year (July 2022 – June 2023). Your much-needed donations will help ensure that families and kids get the literacy and education support they need during the next calendar year. Not to mention …
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Everyone who works at the library wants everyone to read. Librarians understand that the best way to get people interested in reading is to meet them where they are. Different patrons want different things, like reading graphic novels, improving themselves, looking for the optimism that a romance novel can provide, reading the classics. Everyone has …
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You can find books about all kinds of architecture in our online bookstore. There are books about theory, different styles, and architects. We typically only have one copy of each book in stock, so if one has caught your eye, act fast! Proceeds go to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends, an …
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A couple of days before Christmas is *maybe* not the best time to talk about healthy eating… but it is a way the Foundation and Friends has supported The Santa Clara City Library this year. There were a series of classes throughout the last two months, sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and the Foundation and Friends …
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The Santa Clara City Library – your public library – is dedicated to getting you the information you need when you need it. That can be in the form of the digital library, where you get free access to magazines and newspapers from across the country. Or the librarians will help you research what you’re …
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If you regularly donate to the Foundation and Friends, consider setting up a monthly donation. You can automatically set up a monthly charge on your credit card. Then, instead of making a lump sum donation at the end of the year, it spreads out the expenses for you. And it helps us because we have …
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California is an amazing place. Our state parks cover all kinds of terrain. This photo is of nearby Castle Rock State Park, but there are so many more. You can go all the way north to Pelican State Beach, or to the very south to see Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. But you have to pay …
You can find books to help improve your health in all kinds of ways in our online bookstore! Learn to meditate, improve your diet, get exercise tips, and more. We typically only have one copy of each title, so act fast if one has caught your eye. Proceeds go to the Santa Clara City …
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