The Santa Clara City Library has been invited to have a story time at Westfield Valley Fair this Saturday, July 13, at 11:30am in the children’s area. Join our librarian as he leads a fabulous story time on Saturday morning!
Our 2019 Annual Newsletter has been published! As always, it highlights some of our biggest activities and honors our major donors and volunteers. There are physical copies available in the library, and you can download the PDF from our website. If you would like to donate to support our ongoing activities, you can do so …
Tickets are on sale for the Santa Clara Historic Home Tour! This tradition is in its 40th year in Santa Clara; you get guided tours of 6 historic houses in historic Santa Clara on Friday December 7 and/or Saturday December 8. Best of all, we’ll be hosting an open house at Mission Library Friday evening, …
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The library had an outreach booth at the city’s Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, and it looks like everyone had a great time. Over 1500 people stopped by the booth and got bubbles and some of them even got new library cards! A huge thanks to the library staff who helped out at the event …
The library had a great time manning their booth at the Franklin Square Dance last weekend! Over 480 people came to the booth, including these two. They gave out glow prizes and passed out flyers, along with encouragement and happiness. Thanks to the library for their efforts in reaching out to the community!
We enjoy sponsoring all the outreach activities the library does in the community. These are a couple of photos from the Library’s 4th of July booth at Central Park, where over 1300 people visited the booth, coloring and making keychains, along with signing up for Summer Reading! What a great way to get out into …
The Library had a team out at the Silicon Valley BBQ championships last week. They had over 830 patrons come visit their booth. Patrons enjoyed playing plinko and making rainbow scratch bookmarks. Forty-three people signed up for summer reading, even! SCCLFF is proud to support the library’s efforts to reach out to even more people …
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Did you know that we sell Friends memberships? It’s true! For a small fee, you can get early access to our monthly book sales and 10% off book sales in the Friends Book Store at Central Park Library, the Book Nook at Northside Library, or the shelf at Mission Library. This is a great deal …
Central Park Library hosted a naturalization information session in late March, teaching about 40 attendees what the process was to become an American citizen. The library is excited to provide Citizenship Corner – a set of resources to help our customers become American citizens. From the program: When asked the most important advice she could …
Ellin Klor, literacy volunteer extraordinaire, wrote up a piece about her work at the HomeSafe domestic violence shelter and their October activity. But, it is during dinner that the real high point of the evening occurs. We have brought our apple peeler corer slicer tools, and everyone gets to peel their own apple. It’s old …
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