This year, SCCLFF sponsored the Santa Clara City Library’s Comic Con! This was a hugely successful event, drawing over 11,000 people from all over Silicon Valley. It featured Dave Filoni, executive producer for Star Wars Rebels (and more!), Lego contests, artists from Pixar, lots of cosplay… it was amazing. Of course the 101st Legion showed …
Bandai Namco sponsored our teen summer reading program this year. As part of that, they hosted an event for some of the teen winners last month! There was a LOT of game playing. They got to play some games that hadn’t been released yet! One of our librarians went old school in their arcade. Everyone …
We were happy to provide the prizes for Northside’s Geocache and Scavenger Hunt last week. It sounds like it was both fun and educational: “A clue from our scavenger hunt only took teams to the location. Then people had to scour the location for a hidden envelope,” Ocana says. “There were three teams with seven kids …
Last month, the Teen department put on a party for all the Teens who use and support the library. It was Great Gatsby themed, and it looks like it was a great time. It’s fabulous to see all these happy faces!
Congratulations to Angela Ocana, one of the amazing librarians at Northside! She is the first-ever recipient of the California Library Association’s Young Adult Services Award. She won because (these are her manager’s words): She exceeds the criteria through her out-of-the-box programs including Teen Chopped Champions, Cupcake Wars, STEM Bowl, and epic nerf war battles. She is passionate …
Teenagers are notorious for being disengaged and uninterested in their communities. In our experience, that’s an incorrect stereotype. The Santa Clara City Library has not one, but two teen councils – groups of teenagers who advise the library on what kind of programs would appeal to teenagers but when they should hold those programs. Sometimes, …
#GivingTuesday is on December 1st! We want you to donate money to the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends a week from Tuesday. Of course the money you give to the Friends & Foundation buys books and DVDs. But it also funds other wonderful things. In the days leading up to December 1st, we’re …
Congratulations to all the winners of the library’s teen writing contest! Our Teen librarians put this contest together as part of Teen Read Week, and the Friends & Foundation provided the prizes. You can read the winning stories here. We’re proud to support the library and all their programs. This is one of the many …
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The Mission Library Family Reading Center had a party last week! We were celebrating the Migrant Education portion of the Literacy Outreach team. This is a great program to help the children of migrant workers keep up their reading and language skills while they’re not in school. Not to mention that a party is always …
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Thank you to the kids of In Our Unity! They donated $350 to the Library Foundation & Friends in support of the teen area. These kids really know how to give back to their community. They recycled bottles and cans and held various sales to raise the funds. In addition to this gift, the teens …