It is a gift we often take for granted- the gift of reading. Can you imagine what life would be like if you didn’t have it? It is not just that the world of books would be closed to us- what about menus, forms, medicine labels, birthday cards, or notes from a child’s teacher? It …
It’s officially summer again; and that means Monday night should be spent in Central Park Pavillion at the Summer Reading Family Fun Night! Tonight, at our opening event, Keypoint Credit Union presented a check for $15,000 to the Santa Clara Library Foundation to provide the funding for many of the Summer Reading programs. And, then, …
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Date: 6/9/2014 Time: 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM In May 1972, actor Fess Parker of Davy Crockett fame announced plans for a huge theme park complex in Santa Clara. Eventually, the Marriott Corporation joined the effort. Parker later departed, while Marriott pressed on. Marriott’s Great America opened its gates on March 20, 1976. It featured …
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Author Talk: Quite Contrary by David J. Langum, Sr. The Story of Mary Bennett Love, a 19th Century Santa Claran Date: 6/24/2014 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM Cost: Free and Open to the Public Location: Central Park Library Margie Edinger Room Mary Bennett Love was a legendary and colorful character who settled in Santa …
Summer Reading starts this Sunday, June 1st, and the Kickoff Party is Saturday, June 7 from 1pm -4pm. You can sign up online to receive your reading logs. Reading logs for children, teens and adults will also be given out at the Youth Services & Reference desks. Go to http://library.santaclaraca.gov/index.aspx?page=2819.to sign up for Summer Reading! …
What do you do when you find an old St. Christopher medal mounted on a plaque reading “Presented by the City of Santa Clara” in a box of WWII momentos? A resourceful woman from Oregon in this situation contacted local history librarian Mary Hanel. Mary and volunteer Josie LeRoy did some research on St. Christopher’s …
Your donations and purchases make a big difference! This month, they funded: New Spinning Racks for the Paperback Collection (Which Will Soon be Filled with New Paperbacks) 200 New Children’s DVD’s Adult Summer Reading Materials Easy English Times – our ESL Conversation Club Newspaper A Portable Sound System
Emma Kaliterna was recently honored at the Library for her years of service to Santa Clara. She is an inspiration to many, including an anonymous donor who funded the naming of the Yearbooks Case after Emma as well as an annual children’s author series. We presented Emma with a scrapbook, a transcription of the oral …
The Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society is sponsoring a talk by Dr. Stephen Morse, a frequent lecturer on many aspects of genealogy. Dr. Morse will present a case study using the One-Step Webpages as well as other websites to develop a family history. It illustrates how, with a minimal amount of initial information, an …
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The Santa Clara City Library is sponsoring a talk and by local author Betsy Franco and her son and illustrator Tom Franco about their new adult book, “Naked”, on January 26th at 2pm in the Redwood Room of Central Library. “When Jesse Lucas, a troubled, magnetic acting major, touches the sculpture Meditation in Stanford’s Rodin …
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