5th Birthday Celebration in May!

It's been 5 years since we opened our beautiful green building, back in 2003! We're throwing an all-day birthday bash, and YOU are our guests of honor! Please join us as we celebrate 5 great years in our building, providing library services to the local community. We will be celebrating all day on Saturday, May 10, from 10am-5pm. Refreshments will be served in the lobby all day, and all are invited to sign our birthday mural.
Also be sure to check out these special events!
11:00 AM: Birthday-themed Toddler Storytime
12:30 PM: Cake Cutting and Toasts with library and local community leaders
1:00 PM: Cinco de Mayo Performance for families by Colibri

May book club title

Our title for next month's book club meeting on May 14th will be a book entitled "A Million Nightingales" by Susan Straight. Now, we have but only two copies in the library system, but there are plenty to be found at neighboring libraries such as Santa Clara County and through Link+. Just let us, any of us, know if you need help finding a copy of this or ANY title ... as always. Hope to see you there.

San Jose Teen Idol

Go on, get your Teen Idol groove on. Yup, we have another year of San Jose Idol competitions at various branches, West Valley included on Thursday the 24th of April. The competition will be furious and if you want information about what you need to do to participate click HERE!Cash prizes await and fame that knows no boundaries, for sure. If you are between the ages of 12-19 c'mon down and show us whatcha got. We know you're out there singing in the shower and in the park with your friends so come on in and do it in the library too!

April Book Club Selection

The book we will be reading and discussing for our next meeting will be "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind. This is a fabulously crafted story, entirely unique in it's telling and really no wonder that it was finally adapted and made into a film. Join us for what should be a colorful discussion. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, April 9th at 6:30pm.

A lovely panorama ...

Check out this great image of the main floor of our library and appreciate the natural light, the impressive allure of architectural lines and the overall welcoming nature of our space. That's all ... just sharing a moment captured in time by Daisy Porter, our Senior Librarian last Thursday the 28th of February. Ahhh yes, Spring is in the air with a warm and glowing sun making itself felt in more ways than one.

Taxonomy? Taxidermy? No, just Taxes for now ...

If you come to the library looking for subjects that begin with "TAX" at this time of the year, well, we're going to point you in the direction of the IRS and the State Franchise Tax Board and those pleasant types. We do NOT distribute or carry tax forms here at San Jose Public Library, but we do have a slew of information on obtaining tax related assistance. One of the more useful and requested bits of information is the free assistance that can be obtained at a variety of locations and dates through an array of providers. So take a deep breath, get your paperwork together and good luck tackling that unavoidable yearly burden of civic duty.

March Book Club Title

We had a good time talkin' about The Distant Land of My Father, this year's Silicon Valley Reads selection, and we're lookin' forward to the author Bo Caldwell being here next week, but it's time to move on with our reading selection for March. We have chosen Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen to be our next read. So get your copy now as it remains a popular title in our library system and many others, I'm sure. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, March 12th at 6:30pm. See you there.