Tracy and I had a great time at the new Santa Clara Whole Foods Market Preview Party a couple of weeks ago. The new vendors were amazing and the food samples were delicious. This space is amazing and is part of a new development on the north side of Santa Clara, with a Sur …
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We’ve been talking about the upcoming Lollapalooza a lot around here! It’s coming up soon – on Februrary 27. However, as we’ve been talking to people, some of them are busy that weekend. They still want to support the library, but they can’t come to the event. What to do? Well, it’s more fun if …
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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It is year-end donation season! Your donation to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends helps make the library a center of life-long learning. Your gift at any level will be appreciated! A gift of $200 could buy a Kindle filled with classic titles and popular genres. Your gift of $500 could pay for laptops to support …
Jan Lieberman is former librarian at Santa Clara library, is a long-time library supporter, and has been active in Santa Clara for longer than it’s polite to talk about. She turned 85 a couple of weeks ago, and her friends threw her a party. At the party, they were proud to announce the new Jan …
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 …