Locations and Hours
290 International Circle
San José, CA 95119
(408) 808-3068
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Hours
Manager -
Ruth Barefoot
ruth.barefoot@sjlibrary.org
Account Question? - Email sa.sjpl@sjlibrary.org
Santa Teresa Events 
Santa Teresa News
You Can Meet Buzz and Woody!
Noon, Wednesday, Feb. 22
King Library, Children's Room
Bring your camera and take a photo with a star from
Disney Pixars Toy Story 3.
Don't forget you can still donate a new children's book to the Partners in Reading Family Literacy Program's Book Drive "Together We Read." Book drive ends Friday, Feb. 25.
Donate a new book at your local branch library and receive one FREE ticket to Disney on Ice presents Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3. One ticket per family, while supplies last.
Why donate to the Partners in Reading book drive?
Only 1 out of every 300 children from low-income families own a book. Help local families start their own home library and create the joy of reading as a family. Reading helps expand imagination, builds knowledge, it's cool, fun and exciting. Most importantly, reading takes you To Infinity ... and Beyond!
Fun Activities for the Family!
Disney on Ice representative will also present a special Make your own Mr. or Mrs. Potato Head! Storytime/Craft program at three locations.
- Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 11:30 a.m. at Evergreen Branch Library
- Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 3:30 p.m. at Tully Community Branch Library
- Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 11:30 a.m. at Edenvale Branch Library
Thank you for supporting Partners in Reading's Book Drive!
Do you earn less than $50,000 a year? Do you need help filing your taxes? You can get help from Earn it! Keep it! $ave it! provided by the United Way Silicon Valley.
You can get free tax preparation help from trained volunteers at the library, the Center for Employment Training (CET), Catholic Charities, and other places in Santa Clara County. Last year more than 5,700 customers got free tax help and more than $7.1 million in refunds came back to the community.
If you used to go to the King Library for help from volunteer tax preparers you can go to CET, because they may still have your information from past years.
Click here to see a list of some of the sites that are offering free tax preparation. You can also call 211 or 1-866-896-3597 if you have questions or need to find other places that offer tax help. You can also get tax help at these San José Public Library branches: East Branch, Joyce Ellington, Hillview, Tully, and West Valley.
When you visit a tax preparation site please bring:
- Last year’s tax return if you have it
- Valid ID
- Social Security cards for everyone in your family
- W-2 forms, 1099 forms, and 1098 forms
- A blank check so a refund can be deposited directly into your account
For more information visit http://earnitkeepitsaveit.org/economic-impact-of-free-tax-prep.
So, your dad’s a genius, and you have a math learning disability. He thinks you should be an engineer, and you think: “what about ‘math learning disability’ don’t you understand?” And now he wants to pack you off to rural Pennsylvania (isn’t that where that groundhog lives?) to stay with elderly relatives you’ve never met--Poppy and Moo (Moo? Seriously?) while he goes to Romania to teach for six weeks. You’re supposed to help Poppy with an engineering project called the “Artesian Screw” (“good training for an engineer”, Dad says) and in your spare time do the tons of math problems he sends along with you. Not your idea of summer fun. But you go (what choice do you have?), you meet your crazy relatives and their possibly even crazier neighbors, and to your immense surprise your summer turns out not half bad.
That’s 14 year old Mike Frost’s life in a nutshell. You’ll be entertained by his adventures in Do Over, Pennsylvania; maybe you’ll even laugh out loud. And you’ll certainly cheer for him as he learns the absolute value of Mike.
Review by volunteer Robert D.
Bill Bryson is quickly becoming well known for his humor and wit while tackling subjects that are often delivered in dry, dense books. Those who have checked out his new book, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, are familiar with the way Bryson wanders from subject to subject. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, he starts at the very beginning with the Big Bang and the sarcastic roots of that name. Bryson's humor is well paired with topics such as the knock-down, drag-out personal battles between scientists over things such as fossils or the subject of continental drift. Bryson has managed to do the impossible, to make science and history fun for the average person to read and explain its context in a way that's understandable to the average person.
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Calling all book lovers! The Friends of the Santa Teresa Library are having a HUGE book sale this Saturday, February 4, from 10-4 in the Library’s Community Room. They have gently used books for all ages and interests as well as media—cd’s, dvd’s, and more. Prices are ridiculously reasonable—you can’t go wrong. So come, browse, and take home exciting titles to enjoy.
All proceeds from the sale are used to support library programs such as January’s Mad Science and February’s upcoming Nick Barone Puppet Show and Teen Rock Concert.
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