Libraries are awesome! They are places where you can: access enormous amounts of information meet other people who like the same things you do broaden your horizons entertain yourself Thank you for all of your support throughout the year. You donate books and movies and music, you shop at our book sales, you come to …
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I know the library is important to you, and I want to thank you for your support. Our three libraries mean so much to so many in our city. They’re not only places of learning and discovery, but also of acceptance and community. I want to share a story with you from one of our …
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You may have heard that there’s a new Whole Foods coming to Santa Clara. This is exciting for the city and all the people who work and live near the new location. They’re going to be able to get delicious lunches and groceries before the summer is out. We are excited because this store has chosen …
One of the most common donation questions we get is: do you accept textbooks? And the answer is: yes! We especially like newer textbooks, like the ones pictured above, but we’ll take any and all of your textbooks. Just drop them in our donation bin by the bookstore in the Central Park Library (if you have …
You’ve helped make 2015 an amazing year at the Santa Clara City Library. We celebrated Northside Library’s first year and Mission Library’s 60th! The library hosted over 300 programs and circulated almost 2.5 million items. None of that would have happened without you. Your donation to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends will continue to make …
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A HUGE thank you to everyone who donated yesterday during Giving Tuesday! We wouldn’t exist without your generosity. Giving Tuesday is just one component of our year-end donation drive. Your donations help us provide all kinds of programs and supplies to the library throughout the year. So if you didn’t get a chance to donate …
We’ve been highlighting many of the wonderful things that the Foundation & Friends helps the Santa Clara City Library do, from computer classes to printing our English learner essays and stories to teen councils and more! Your donations pay for other things too, like: graphic novels new DVDs language learning books With your donations, we can keep the Santa …
Do you ever feel the need to get up and move more, but you don’t want to pay for a gym membership? Or are you curious about Zumba or another fitness workout but you’re not sure if you’ll like it? Or do you just not know how many steps you can take in a day? …
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Are you interested in researching your ancestors? Do you ever need to scan in a photo or a document but don’t do it often enough to buy your own scanner? Well, the genealogy department up on the second floor of the Central Library has a new oversize scanner. Anyone can use it, but we anticipate …
The Santa Clara City Library is creating a community of life-long learners in Silicon Valley. One of the ways we do that is through computer classes. We have computer classes at all levels – from how-to-use-Word tutorials up through learning how to actually program a computer. The above photo is a session at the library …