The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends officially became a non-profit in June 2001 – 20 years ago this month. Our volunteers, staff, donors, book shoppers, Librarypalooza attendees… all of your support of The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends over the last twenty years has made so many amazing things happen at …
I live close to the Northside Library and ever since its opening my family and I have been regular visitors to the library. During pre-Covid-19 times, our favorite Saturday routine was to have brunch in the nearby restaurants and walk into the library where my kids enjoyed the different programming and events that the library …
Continue reading “Why I Love the Library, a note from our Board Vice-President”
I spent early elementary school summers visiting the small store front library a few blocks from my house. I’d go several times a week and return home with an armload of books. A few days later, I would return the books, and the librarian would stamp my reading card with an image of a worm. …
Continue reading “Why I love the library, a letter from Nancy Toledo”
In 2011, The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends ran a program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) called The Big Read. This is a program that still exists – about 75 communities get grants annually – to get whole communities to read the same book, learn about it, and learn …
Continue reading “The Big Read, Call of the Wild, and Remembering Santa Clara’s History”
This is another in our ongoing Why We Love the Library series from our volunteers and board members. Why I Love the Library By Nancy Coleman I’ve been a book lover and library lover all my life. As I was growing up in the Chicago area, my father used to take all five of us …
One of our longest-serving volunteers shared this photo with me of some of the original Foundation & Friends volunteers at the bookstore that we used to have on El Camino Real. What, you say? The Foundation & Friends Bookstore wasn’t always in the Central Park Library? Nope. We were founded in 2001, and Central Park …
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We’ve asked around for stories from our volunteers about why they love the library. It’s wonderful to hear people’s answers, and we hope to bring you more of these in the upcoming months, as we celebrate our 20th anniversary. One of our board members shared this: For sure, the #1 reason would be….books! We are …
Last weekend was the anniversary of the opening of Northside Library! This was the end result of a huge effort by the Foundation and the Northside community, with everyone pitching in to help make it happen. We wish that everyone were able to get together to celebrate, but we look forward to having our libraries …
The Summer Reading Program is a one of those things that just about defines a library. I remember participating in summer reading at the library I used growing up an undisclosed number of years ago, and it’s a tradition that is going strong even through our current pandemic. Summer Reading is designed to support literacy …
This month starts a celebration of the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends’ 20th anniversary. We were founded in 2001 by Nancy Toledo and others at the time the Central Park Library was being rebuilt. With your support, we have raised over $3million for the Library; supported programs like Comic Con and Summer Reading; …