Our monthly book sale is this Saturday, January 16th from 10am – 2pm at the Central Park Library. We’ll have hundreds of books to help you meet your new year’s resolutions, be it learning a new language or eating better or whatever your resolutions are. Are you a Friends member? If so, the sale will …
The Library’s Book Discussion group, run by librarian Morgan Pershing, has announced their books for 2016! You can find the full list below, or it’s on the library’s website. January 26 – Memory of Water (Part of Silicon Valley Reads) February 23 – Whistling Season March 22 – Everything I Never Told You April 26 – …
Reminder: The Central Library is getting new carpeting starting today! This fabulous improvement, however, means that the library (and our bookstore) will be open only limited hours for the next few weeks. The hours are: Mon – Sat: 10am – 6pm Sunday 1-5pm After December 23rd, the bookstore will be closed until Jan 5th, so …
The Friends Bookstore in the Central Park Library will change its hours in December to align with the Library’s hours during the recarpeting. Starting December 9th its hours will be: Monday – Saturday: 10am – 6pm Sunday: 1pm – 5pm The bookstore will be closed after Christmas (so it can get new carpeting too!). Normal …
This Saturday, November 7th, the Northside Library is having a HUGE Diwali celebration! The Friends will have be having a book sale at the party as well. Please stop by and get a henna tattoo and look through our books for sale. Thanks for supporting the Friends! The monthly book sale for November at Central …
We know that you’re planning to clean off your shelves in December and donate all those books and movies and music to the Library’s Foundation & Friends. December is traditionally our largest donation month. However, this year we want it to be November. Why? The Santa Clara Central Park Library us going to be open …
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The Rotary Club of Santa Clara stepped up to help us move 7,500 books to a new location last Saturday! They arrived at the Library on Saturday bright and early and in good spirits, even though the service elevator was broken. They loaded the book carts full of books, moved them to their new location and re-shelved …
Thank you to all of the volunteers at Empowering World Change! They held a book drive for us and collected more than 1,000 books. Woo hoo! Sales of the books will raise funds for programs, collections and events here at the Library.
Each year, the volunteers and Friends of the Foundation & Friends gather to celebrate the results of their hard work. The Foundation & Friends is more than 100 volunteers strong who give more than 6,000 each year. The money they raise by selling donated books funds innovative Library programs and collections. Library staff joined the volunteers at the …
Stop by the Friends’ book alcove near the entrance of the Northside Library. The entire stock has been swapped out. Once you find your favorites, bring them to the front desk for purchase. Thanks for supporting the Foundation & Friends with your purchases.