You’ve definitely heard of the Girl Scouts, but have you heard of the Silver Award? The Girls work towards a self-sustaining project to benefit the community. Santa Clara City Library was thrilled to be able to help girls from one local troop improve our library. Below is the letter from their project supervisor to the …
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We’re always happy to share the library’s success stories! Sometimes, it’s just as easy as having a quiet place to study: Just five minutes ago another one of our patrons shared his success story. He said the reason we haven’t seen him since February because he passed his real estate exam. He said he had …
Is your teenager already sitting around bored at home this summer? If you can coax your child to the library, the Friends bookstore has gotten all the summer reading lists from the area middle and high schools. They pull them out special, so you can browse through just the books from those summer reading lists! …
The Foundation & Friends would like to congratulate the Library on winning its second CLA PRExcellence award in two years! They won the 2017 award for their 2016 Comic Con! From the press release: In September 2016, more than eight thousand visitors descended on Santa Clara City’s Central Park Library to attend the library’s first …
Are you looking to eat healthier? Or learn how to cook better food for yourself? Check out the library’s new display of healthy eating and cooking books at the Central Park Library. This display was made possible through a grant from Kaiser Permanente. Thanks Kaiser!
A patron’s cat made it up to the roof! The library was happy to bring this little guy back down for one of its younger patrons. (Who can resist a good story about our library performing such a good deed?)
A huge thanks to Enterprise for donating $1500 to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends this week! We appreciate it.