Category: Outreach

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Kaiser Permanente Supports Health and Wellness Collection!

Kaiser Permanente is donating $15,000 to the library’s Health and Wellness Collection. This investment in the community’s well being will be used to purchase books, DVDs, and audio books. In addition, these funds will support the library’s FREE Health and Wellness programming. These combined efforts will help people eat healthier, get active, lower their stress, and …

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Wider press coverage of our Foundation’s funded “Find a Job in February” series

“Looking for a job? You can find help at the Santa Clara City Library’s free “Find a Job in February” series, featuring workshops with local experts. The series is sponsored by a grant from the Foundation and Friends of the Santa Clara City Library. On Feb 12, 40 eager jobseekers heard from LinkedIn Enterprise Account …

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Volunteers Needed

  Our organization raises money for the library through book sales.  We rely on a dedicated group of volunteers to collect and sort books, staff the bookstore, ship books ordered through our Amazon store, and set-up and staff our Saturday Sales.  Right now, we are particularly looking for volunteers who can help us move boxes …

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Are you on Facebook? It’s easy to become a fan of the Library!

Do you do Facebook? Become a fan of the Santa Clara City Library and the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends, and stay up to date on the latest library news and events! You’ll also have access to exclusive content like video book reviews from staff and patrons—delivered directly to your news feed. If …

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Meet Julie Passalacqua, Santa Clara’s New City Librarian

By Lance Jacobs, Foundation and Friends Volunteer June of 2010 saw the appointment of Julie Passalacqua as the new Santa Clara City Librarian. While this post is something new for Julie, there is little she has not experienced in her 35-year tenure with the Santa Clara City Library. Previously the Assistant City Librarian, Julie has …

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Getting out of the reading rut!

Is your to-read shelf a gazillion miles long but wholly unenticing? Does that pile next to your bed consist of books that only held your interest for a few pages? Is your usual tried-and-true genre letting you down? Sounds like you’re in a reading rut—but all hope is not lost! It’s simply time to branch …

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Santa Clara’s History to be Digitized

Thanks to grant funds from the Santa Clara Historic Home Tour and generous donations from the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends, a project with Backstage Library Works is now underway to microfilm and digitize eighteen Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce Scrapbooks covering the years 1937– 1961. Brittle and unimpressive in appearance, these scrapbooks …

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