Our volunteers are so inspiring! They work to make the library the best place it can be, and to find books that you might be done with a good home. Last fiscal year, our volunteers raised more than $130,000 to benefit the library through book sales! When you consider that our average item for sale …
We are so excited to share with you that two of our long time volunteers, Emily Adorable and Lee Broughman, were recently named Santa Clarans of the year at the State of the City meeting. We are so proud of them and really grateful for all their support to the Library! Big congratulations!!
A big shout out to Bob Byrd for all his community work through the years and for being an amazing volunteer with the Foundation. Bob is a retired librarian with a long history of serving the Santa Clara City Library. He has served on the Library Board of Trustees, was one of the original founders …
We need your help! Our book selling operation runs on volunteer help, and you could be our next volunteer. Most volunteer shifts are in the mornings at Central Park Library, though we do need occasional help at the Northside Branch. This could be a great way for your teen to pick up some volunteer time …
We’ve recently updated our volunteer listings! If you have a couple of hours during the week and can safely lift some books, we’d love to have you help us out. Right now, we could really use a couple of people on Tuesday mornings to help us sort books – if you know books, this is …
Have you ever come to the Central Park Library and found that there were a bunch of red carts filled with books for sale out front? Those are our patio sales! We hold the patio sales on weekends, as needed. There will be one, for example, on Saturday June 11 from 1-4pm to coincide with …
The Rotary Club of Santa Clara stepped up to help us move 7,500 books to a new location last Saturday! They arrived at the Library on Saturday bright and early and in good spirits, even though the service elevator was broken. They loaded the book carts full of books, moved them to their new location and re-shelved …
Each year, the volunteers and Friends of the Foundation & Friends gather to celebrate the results of their hard work. The Foundation & Friends is more than 100 volunteers strong who give more than 6,000 each year. The money they raise by selling donated books funds innovative Library programs and collections. Library staff joined the volunteers at the …
Several of the lead volunteers for the Foundation and Friends visited the under-construction Santa Clara North Side library. Later this month many of the current donors to the north side will be able to go on short tours of the building as well.
The Santa Clara Library Friends would like to sell additional items in the store we have inside the Santa Clara Central library. Currently we have a wide selection of soft and hard cover books, DVDs, BluRay discs available to the public. But, we’d also like to be able to sell pencils, paper, and other items …