Category: Adults

Wilcox High School Yearbooks

The most popular resource in the Central Park Library’s local history collection is the high school yearbook collection. Located next to the old Santa Clara City Directories, these old school yearbooks serve as an excellent source of local history and genealogical information. Some people use them to look for the local advertisements written to appeal …

California Proposes Cutting Library Literacy Services Funding

The State of California proposes to abolish all California Library Literacy and English Acquisition Service Program funds. Read Santa Clara provides adult literacy tutoring to 100 English-speaking adults per year. Students are matched with volunteer tutors who work with them one-on-one to achieve their literacy goals. Can you imagine the challenge of life without being …

Getting out of the reading rut!

Is your to-read shelf a gazillion miles long but wholly unenticing? Does that pile next to your bed consist of books that only held your interest for a few pages? Is your usual tried-and-true genre letting you down? Sounds like you’re in a reading rut—but all hope is not lost! It’s simply time to branch …