Category: Donations

Support your right to read

The Santa Clara City Library is there to help you find the right book at the right time to fit what you need. Whether that’s an audiobook to make your chores more bearable, a textbook to help you pass that needed class, or simply something to entertain you, your library is here for you.   …

It’s Giving Tuesday!

It’s Giving Tuesday! Today is the day to join with everyone around the world to support the causes you care most about. Support your community and your library today by donating to the Foundation and Friends! 

Giving Tuesday is tomorrow!

Get ready! It’s Giving Tuesday tomorrow, and it’s the perfect chance for you to show your support for your community and your library. You can help the Santa Clara City Library be the best it can be by funding the Foundation and Friends. Our purpose is to support the Santa Clara City Library – and …

Donate paper grocery bags!

We sell books by the paper-grocery-bag full during the afternoon of our monthly book sales at Central Park Library. You are free to bring your own (paper or reusable) bags from home. But we like to provide bags for people who don’t have their bags with them.   Your paper bag donations help us keep …

Additional book donation hours available

Great News! The appointment availability for large book donations now includes Tuesday and Thursday mornings at Central Park Library – before the library is open. So if you have a large donation of books, please reach out to our bookselling manager to schedule a time. Thank you!

We need children’s books!

You can bring all of your book donations to us, but children’s book donations are especially high priority right now.   Why? A couple of reasons. First, our July, August, and September book sales are popular with teachers who are looking to build and refresh their classroom libraries – which means we need children’s books …

Sticker Giveaway

If you’ve made a donation in the last week or so, you might notice that we’ve started sending out stickers in our thank you letters. There are two different designs that you might get, both in support of the Santa Clara City LIbrary. Enjoy this giveaway!