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Fall into a New Season at the Library Fall officially starts on Wednesday, but the season is slowly making its presence more apparent. The air is crisp in the morning, the sun sets earlier and earlier each day, and the leaves are ever so slightly beginning to change colors.
This is a wonderful time of year to explore. Check out one of these travel guides to plan a quick getaway and be sure to visit our Santa Clara County Parks to enjoy watching the seasons change. It's never too early to start planning your next adventure with some inspiration from a travel book.
Create seasonal home décor, some simple crafts or find new knitting and crocheting designs and patterns using our free service, CreativeBug. Cook up hearty comfort food with these digital cookbooks, or enjoy the last bit of summer with recipes to create frozen treats. Make sure to keep an eye on our online calendar. We've got some upcoming Master Gardener classes to help you with your garden. |
 Find Your Next Great ReadIn addition to our skilled librarians who can recommend titles for any age and interest, we have a wonderful eResource to help navigate different book series for juvenile or young adult readers. This resource has the series information for over 36,000 titles and users can view the information by series title, subject, book title and author. Once your young ready has completed a particular series, visit our Kids Homepage to find read-alikes that can get them started on a new adventure! |
Virtual Paint Night We invite families to a virtual paint night this Saturday, September 25 at 6 p.m. Teacher Nacho Moya of MOYA Arts will show us how to paint a beautiful image celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month. No experience is necessary. You’ll need some canvas (12x16 works well), paint brushes, cup of water, paper plate, napkin and acrylic paint (or washable paints for children). One registration per household. |
In Person Tutoring Begins Today Starting today, SCCLD is offering free, on-demand afterschool tutoring and homework help to students living in the Santa Clara County Library District. This is designed for students in grades 7-12 and offers help in math and English language arts.
We have partnered with the Bay Area Tutoring Association (BATA) to offer Homework Help through tutoring pods in the following libraries: Register online to save your seat. Walk-ins are welcome as space is allowed. |
Teen Mental Health Support Group In honor of National Depression Education and Awareness Month in October, SCCLD Teen Services is hosting a virtual support group just for teens on October 2, 9, 16, and 23. Learn more and register in this blog.
Each session will be themed, with a specific area of focus each week. Some topics include anxiety, automatic negative thoughts, and what happens to our bodies when we feel stress, depression or worry.
In addition, teens who register will receive a free Wellness Goodie Bag from their library.
Our librarians have created a number of booklists about important teen issues, like bullying, addiction, self-harm and mental health. |
 Postponed Hours Expansion Santa Clara County Library District staff are County employees and called upon to serve as Disaster Service Workers as needed. In preparation for third COVID vaccinations and the FDA approving the vaccination for 5-11 year olds, additional library staff are called upon each week to serve the County in this critical role to work at the many COVID vaccination and testing centers, as contact tracers, in the Emergency Operation Center, and much more. As a result, we are not able to expand hours on September 20 as planned. All of our libraries are open to the public for full browsing, computer and printer use, and services. The Library District will continue to provide quality library resources and services to our community within the current service hours, Monday through Saturday at all of our library locations. We apologize the hours expansion has been postponed, but know it is because our valuable library staff are serving the highest level need in the County -- protecting our communities from COVID. We will post any new updates here. Thank you for your understanding. |
Upcoming Virtual Author Events We invite patrons to two virtual author events early next month.
On Saturday, October 2 at 11 a.m., authors Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung will talk about their book, Quit Like a Millionaire. The book is a bold, contrarian guide to retiring at any age, with a reproducible formula to financial independence. Register for this Zoom event here.
Join us again on Tuesday, October 5 at 5 p.m. for a talk with Kimberly Ewertz, author of Family Redefined: Childhood Reflections on the Impact of Divorce. The book features personal accounts from children about divorce. Please register for this event. |
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Join the Library with an Instant Free eCard
If you live in Santa Clara County and do not have a library card with the Santa Clara County Library District (SCCLD), or would like additional household members to have their own library accounts, the instant free eCard is for you. eCards are available to all residents who live within Santa Clara County Library District with a valid residential mailing address (P.O. Box not accepted). You can also visit any of our libraries during open hours to convert your eCard, or apply for a full use card to check out any of our physical and digital materials and resources.
A free library card can save you hundreds or thousands in books, eBooks, audiobooks, Headspace app, newspapers and magazines, Rosetta Stone, LinkedIn Learning, Ancestry, job search, online tutoring, movies, music, video console games, and so much more! |
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We're here for you Staff is available to answer your questions by phone from 10 AM - 6 PM, Monday - Saturday (excluding holidays). Account Questions: (408) 540-3945 Ask a Librarian: (408) 540-3947 Or text us at (833) 209-6600.
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