Category: Donations

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!

Thank you for your support!

A huge thanks to everyone who donated to the Foundation and Friends yesterday! We more than doubled the donations from last year’s Library Giving Day. You made the difference – we couldn’t do this without you.   Thank you!

There’s still time!

There are still a few more hours left in Library Giving Day to show your support for the Santa Clara City Library!   Join the people in Santa Clara and across our community who have already donated in honor of Library Giving Day. They and you are truly making a difference.   Thank you for …

It’s Library Giving Day!

It’s Library Giving Day!   Show your support for the Santa Clara City Library and all it does for the community by donating to the Foundation and Friends today. Your help will make the Library’s ESL programs better, strengthen the after-school offerings, and more.   Donate today!  

Library Giving Day is tomorrow!

Library Giving Day is tomorrow!   Join people across Santa Clara and across the country by donating to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends tomorrow, Library Giving Day. Your support makes things like new citizen resources, ESL clubs, and after-school programs possible.   Any amount helps, so please make your donation tomorrow, April …