A great many children and adults attended the first “Family Fun Night!” in Santa Clara’s Central Park at the Pavilion, the first of many events this summer of Summer Reading. Before the program began, the Santa Clara Foundation and Friends accepted a check from Keypoint Credit Union for $15,000 …
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The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends just received a large donation from Ray Edinger to rename the Central Park Library’s Cedar Community Room in honor of his wife, Margie Edinger, who passed away in April. Ray and Margie were 57-year residents of Santa Clara, and have done much to help Santa Clara. Mr. …
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The Santa Clara Library Friends would like to sell additional items in the store we have inside the Santa Clara Central library. Currently we have a wide selection of soft and hard cover books, DVDs, BluRay discs available to the public. But, we’d also like to be able to sell pencils, paper, and other items …
Our storage areas are PACKED – it’s going to be THE biggest sale of the year this Saturday AND Sunday, so don’t miss out! Saturday at 10am and Sunday at 1pm at the Central Park Library, at 2635 Homestead Road in Santa Clara. If you’re a member of the Friends of the Library then you …
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Volunteers raising funds to support programs and collection materials for the Northside Library have already raised over $40,000 from residents excited about the new Library. A special thank you to the Watanabe family for sponsoring the Periodicals Area, Mei Ling for sponsoring the self-Check out Area, the Ramirez Family for sponsoring the Friends Book Alcove, …
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The second annual Santa Clara Library Friends Holiday Craft Faire was held on Saturday, December 15th at the Central Library. Over thirty vendors sold everything from jewelry to soaps, wood cars to hand knitted scarves. The event raised around $1000 for the foundation as well. If you couldn’t make it this year, make a plan …
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One significant need in the library is for children’s early readers books — short, hard-cover illustrated books that adults can read to their children (or grandchildren) and which the children can then start to read for themselves. Although the library has 20,000 of these books, since there’s such demand for them they are almost always …
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The Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends presented its 2012 “Corporate Partnership Awards” to Kaiser Permanante, Keypoint Credit Union, the Mission City Community Fund, Texas Instruments, Santa Clara Rotary, and Barnes and Noble, who together donated almost $40,000 to support programs at the library for wellness, summer reading, children’s and adult literacy, employment, math …
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At the semi-annual Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends Grant Party, over 50 volunteers gathered in the Cedar room at Central Library. There, they heard presentations from the library staff about different programs that could be funded with monies raised in the Friends bookstore and Saturday sales. After the votes were tallied, thirteen different …
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[youtube_sc url=”2WrFprUeB8w” autohide=”1″ fs=”1″ hd=”1″] Santa Clara City Library’s Summer Reading program involves over 3000 kids and teens who read over 50,000 books. Hear from them and their parents about why they like summer reading. The Foundation, all the children, young adults, staff, and community would like to extend thanks to the funders of Summer …
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