2011 Santa Clara City Library Teen Art Contest Sponsored by the Foundation & Friends
Teens, in grades 7-12, were invited to enter the Santa Clara City Library Teen Art Contest. The contest theme was “Picture It @ Your Library.” Submissions reflected the artist’s views on the library’s impact or role in the lives of people and/or society. Click on the name of the artist to view their artwork.
High School Category Winners: 1st place: Claudia Li,Library: A Forest of Words and Color 2nd place: Sumaiya Elahi, Untitled place: DishaTrivedi,Where Stories Come Alive
There will be a reception held for all winners on Monday, November 28th at 7:00 p.m. in the Cedar Room. All prizes and certificates will be awarded at the reception. Original artwork will be on display in Teen Central beginning November 29th.
Our library has always provided stellar services to our children and last fiscal year (July 2010- June 2011) was no exception. Over 18,000 young library card holders aged zero to 14 and their parents/caregivers borrowed a whopping 1,344,289 children’s items! These materials included books, audio materials, videos, and more.
Children’s and young adults’ socialization and education thru library programs have always been part of our library’s mission, and last year was no exception. There were 442 children’s programs whose total attendance was over 37,000! From Baby Lapsit (storytimes for children zero to twelve months) to book discussion groups for school age children, these programs continued despite reduced library budgets and shorter opening hours.
For children in our community our library provides a safe, nurturing environment where they can grow and thrive and discover the joy of reading, enabling their imaginations to soar. We need to ensure the library has sufficient funding and staffing to further this most important work. Our future depends on it!
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The most popular resource in the Central Park Library’s local history collection is the high school yearbook collection. Located next to the old Santa Clara City Directories, these old school yearbooks serve as an excellent source of local history and genealogical information. Some people use them to look for the local advertisements written to appeal to teenagers at the time. Other readers want to see the hair and clothing styles of a certain era. And some users are searching for pictures of parents or grandparents when they were in high school. Or for the photograph of a favor ite teacher. The Library’s yearbook collection also provides great ideas for planning class reunions. The Wilcox High Yearbook Collection. Until recently the Library’s collection of local high school yearbooks—those for Santa Clara, Wilcox, Peter- son and Buchser—was incomplete. Then, in April, Wilcox High School presented the Library several of the yearbooks that were missing. The addition of missing yearbooks actually began five years ago, when Joe Miller, the head custodian and an honorary archivist for Wilcox High, found extra copies of many yearbooks from the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He presented them to the Library and they are now part of the new Central Park Library Heritage Pavilion collection. Then, when Bob Buchser, a retired Principle of Wilcox High School, donated an 1881 “Examination of Teachers” book that had belonged to his father, Emil Buchser, a former Superintendent of the Santa Clara Unified School District, he learned about the incomplete Wilcox High yearbook collection. Bob then suggested that the Library contact Wilcox High Vice Principal, Kathleen McDonald, who had been one of his students. Kathleen then helped the Library to obtain a copy of each of the 18 missing Wilcox yearbooks. First Library Building Dedicated in 1955. The Library also learned that Kathleen’s mother, Thelma Keech, had been the Chair of the Santa Clara Public Library Board of Trustees when the first Santa Clara Public Library building, located at Lexington and Main Streets—now the Mission Library Family Reading Center—opened and was dedicated in October 1955! Now Perhaps You Can Help. Yearbooks are still missing from its Santa Clara High School collection: The years needed are 1972 through 1983, and 1992 through 1997. If you know someone who would be willing to donate one of these missing yearbooks, please contact Local History Librarian Mary Hanel at 615-2909 or email:
Thelma Keech (3rd from right) attends dedication of first Santa Clara City Library on October 30,1955
Thelma Keech receives a new American flag for the first Santa Clara City Library
If the Library has been a special place for you and your family, you can give a gift now that will keep the Santa Clara City Library a very special place for families far into the future. The “Friend Forever” planned-giving program of the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends can serve your best interests and the best interests of the Library, as well. Of the plans listed below, some earn income for the giver, and some provide tax benefits—such as exemptions from estate taxes. Please call Maria Daane, the Director of the Foundation & Friends, at 615-2987 for more information. She’ll help you consider the best giving plan for you and your family.
Join us October 20th at 7:00 PM to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends.We thank you for your years of support of our Library—please join us in celebrating how the work of hundreds of volunteers and donors has impacted Santa Clara. Desserts and champagne will be served in the lobby of the Central Park Library. $10 per guest.
A special thank you to Las Madres neighborhood playgroups of the Peninsula and Santa Clara County for their gift of $3000 for the new “Family Place” area in the children’s department of the Central Park Library. The gift will pay for a play kitchen for imaginative play, nonfiction books on parents, and educational toys and games. “Family Place” is expected to open in early May.
Foundation & Friends volunteers, donors and members gather to grant out $25,000 to the Library
On March 28th, our volunteers, donors and members gathered to decide how to spend $25,000 raised in support of the library.
They voted to support the following:
Summer reading! Teens ($5,500), children ($9,200), and adults ($1,500)
Early literacy education for the young parents at Wilson High School ($1,,700)
Instructional resources for adult literacy students ($2100)
Brainfuse online tutoring for youth ($5,000)
Bookmark contest for kids ($500)
In addition, individuals at the event volunteered to donate additional funds, making it possible to sponsor a Summer Reading concert, a movie for families, a celebration of women’s suffrage, job skills training, Spanish Book Club books, math books, and an open house for teachers.
Many thanks to all those who donate and volunteer to make such things possible.
Guests at this 4th annual Chocolate Party enjoyed a wonderful, homemade desserts, and were entertained by NA HOAALOHA HO’OKANI PILA, a Hawaiian entertainment group.
If the Library has been a special place for you and your family, you can give a gift now that will keep the Santa Clara City Library a very special place for families far into the future. The “Friend Forever” planned-giving program of the Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends can serve your best interests and the best interests of the Library, as well.
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