Category: Inner Workings

We’re hiring!

The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends is looking to hire a person to be our Bookselling Operations and Volunteer Manager. This person will be responsible for our bookselling team and will help maximize our bookselling revenue. This is a part-time position; if you’re excited about libraries, literacy, and getting books into people’s hands, …

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Happy Independence Day

The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends and the Library are both closed today in honor of Independence Day. Happy 4th of July!

Showing our appreciation

When our former Executive Director gave her notice in 2019, the board decided to make a donation in her honor. They had a plaque put up at Northside Library, to show all the work she did to get Northside Library open. That plaque has, after much pandemic delay, finally been put up! Take a look …

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Sign up for our email list to get our monthly newsletters to let you know what’s happening at the library and how The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends is helping. Not to mention you’ll be the first to know when our patio sales and monthly book sales start to come back! Sign up …

Our Annual Print Newsletter

Our 2021 Annual Newsletter has been posted online! This is our print newsletter that makes its way to our supporters every year as well as being found on our website. This year, we’re talking about how your donations kept our community connected during social distancing. Thank you so much to everyone who helped out in any …

Happy Memorial Day

Today is Memorial Day, when we remember those who died in service to their country. The Library and Foundation & Friends will both be closed today.

Honoring Judy Hight

We are sad to announce the passing of longtime volunteer and stalwart library supporter Judy Hight. She volunteered with us for at least 17 years, and ran the Friends of the Library bookstore on Monday mornings. She was always kind and full of life. We will miss her vibrancy and loving personality along with her …

Thanks to Lucy!

When board members retire from our board, we usually add a book to the library collection in their honor. Lucy Lu resigned from our board at the end of 2019; in her honor we’ve added MoMA Now to the collection. Lucy loves art and culture and is always making the world a more beautiful place! …