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Santa Clara Weekly covers recent Summer Reading and other events

The Santa Clara Weekly recently wrote about several events from Summer Reading,  Summer Reading Kicks Off covered the first event of Summer Reading, the kickoff with a bean bag toss and trampoline for kids to play on, heard Steve Cheney’s ventriloquism act, and sampled healthywaters from Kaiser Permanente. Foundation receives large gift in memory of Margie Edinger …

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Many attend first “Family Fun Night!” at Central Park Pavillion

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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Campaign for the Northside Library kicks off with $40,000 in gifts

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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Children’s Reader’s collection is sorely lacking

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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Corporate Partners honored at Santa Clara City Council meeting

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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Library Foundation Grant Party awards over $20,000 to library programs

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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