Please help the library bookstore!
The Santa Clara Library Friends would like to sell additional items in the store we have inside the Santa Clara Central library. Currently we have a wide selection of soft and hard cover books, DVDs, BluRay discs available to the public. But, we’d also like to be able to sell pencils, paper, and other items [...]
Come to our huge book sale, this Saturday and Sunday 1/19-20
Our storage areas are PACKED – it’s going to be THE biggest sale of the year this Saturday AND Sunday, so don’t miss out! Saturday at 10am and Sunday at 1pm at the Central Park Library, at 2635 Homestead Road in Santa Clara. If you’re a member of the Friends of the Library then you [...]
Campaign for the Northside Library kicks off with $40,000 in gifts
Volunteers raising funds to support programs and collection materials for the Northside Library have already raised over $40,000 from residents excited about the new Library. A special thank you to the Watanabe family for sponsoring the Periodicals Area, Mei Ling for sponsoring the self-Check out Area, the Ramirez Family for sponsoring the Friends Book Alcove, [...]
Second annual Holiday craft Faire a success!
The second annual Santa Clara Library Friends Holiday Craft Faire was held on Saturday, December 15th at the Central Library. Over thirty vendors sold everything from jewelry to soaps, wood cars to hand knitted scarves. The event raised around $1000 for the foundation as well. If you couldn’t make it this year, make a plan [...]
Children’s Reader’s collection is sorely lacking
One significant need in the library is for children’s early readers books — short, hard-cover illustrated books that adults can read to their children (or grandchildren) and which the children can then start to read for themselves. Although the library has 20,000 of these books, since there’s such demand for them they are almost always [...]
Corporate Partners honored at Santa Clara City Council meeting
The Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends presented its 2012 “Corporate Partnership Awards” to Kaiser Permanante, Keypoint Credit Union, the Mission City Community Fund, Texas Instruments, Santa Clara Rotary, and Barnes and Noble, who together donated almost $40,000 to support programs at the library for wellness, summer reading, children’s and adult literacy, employment, math [...]
Library Foundation Grant Party awards over $20,000 to library programs
At the semi-annual Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends Grant Party, over 50 volunteers gathered in the Cedar room at Central Library. There, they heard presentations from the library staff about different programs that could be funded with monies raised in the Friends bookstore and Saturday sales. After the votes were tallied, thirteen different [...]
Thank you from the Santa Clara Library Summer Reading 2012 participants!
[youtube_sc url="2WrFprUeB8w" autohide="1" fs="1" hd="1"] Santa Clara City Library’s Summer Reading program involves over 3000 kids and teens who read over 50,000 books. Hear from them and their parents about why they like summer reading. The Foundation, all the children, young adults, staff, and community would like to extend thanks to the funders of Summer [...]
KEYPOINT CREDIT UNION DONATES $10,000 TO SUMMER READING Supporting Literacy in the Santa Clara Community
Keypoint Credit Union presented a $10,000 check to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends (SCCLFF) to support the Summer Reading Program. CEO Brad Canfield and Vice President of Branch Sales and Service Helen Grays Jones spoke of their dedication to their community and to literacy and Joy Hansen, Foundation Board President, was [...]
Foundation & Friends grants over $25,000 to library programs
At our March, 2012 Chocolate Party, over $25,000 earned from book sales in the store in the lobby of Central library and from the monthly Saturday book sales was granted out for Library projects. Patrons will benefit from an expanded Large Print and Non-Fiction collections, portable scanners at the Tech Center and Heritage Pavilion, the [...]