Announcing our partnership with Target Circle
We’re participating in the Target Circle program! You can vote for us and help direct Target’s giving to benefit our nonprofit. For full program details and restrictions visit Target Circle.
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Can’t make it to Comic Con? Try the $1 book sale at Northside!
Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends will host a popular $1 book sale on Saturday, October 12 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. with a great selection of adult, teen, and children’s books. The sale will be held in front of Northside Branch Library and proceeds support library programs and services. If you’re not interested in …
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Shop the pop-up Back-to-School book sale at Northside Library
We are having a pop-up book sale of back-to-school themed books on Sunday September 15 from 1pm – 2pm. Browse our selection of mostly children’s and parenting books on the patio out front of Northside Library that afternoon. Proceeds benefit the Santa Clara City Library. We hope to see you there!
Come to Story Time at Westfield Valley Fair
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!
Price change in the Friends Bookstore
We are proud to announce that all children’s and all fiction books in the Friends Bookstore at the Central Park Library are now only $0.75! This is a great opportunity to build up your child’s home library, find books for your teenager (we have LOTS of great YA books), and enjoy a new book yourself. …
Support Summer Reading and other programs with a donation on Library Giving Day
The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends supports all kinds of classes and events at the Santa Clara City Library with your generous donations. We’re most proud of helping to support and spread literacy throughout our community, in particular our support of the summer reading program. What is the summer reading program, you ask? …
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Thank you for your Librarypalooza support!
Thank you for donating, learning about, attending, bidding at, and enjoying Librarypalooza this year! We more than met our goal, raising over $70,000 as a result of the event, and we couldn’t have done it without you. We are truly grateful for your support – thank you for helping to make Santa Clara City Library even …
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Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and yours!
Support Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math at the Library
The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends is honored to support STEM classes and events at the Santa Clara City Library! What does STEM stand for? Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The library hosts large, ongoing classes like Girls Who Code, as well as smaller, one-off classes like LED Fun with Arduino or a Block Kids Competition, where kids build structures out …
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Learning about the California Library Association’s conference
The Silicon Valley Voice had a nice overview of the California Library Association’s annual conference, which was in Santa Clara this year! Our librarians did a great job hosting a wealth of panels and workshops. Congratulations to all of them for doing an amazing job.