One of our longest-serving volunteers shared this photo with me of some of the original Foundation & Friends volunteers at the bookstore that we used to have on El Camino Real.<\/p>\n
What, you say? The Foundation & Friends Bookstore wasn’t always in the Central Park Library? Nope. We were founded in 2001, and Central Park Library was torn down and rebuilt from 2001 – 2004; our first executive director, Jack Alotto, found someone to donate this space to us. Thus, we were able to sell books and raise money to start helping out the library!<\/p>\n
A huge thank you to whomever donated the space to us and to all of the volunteers who helped us get off the ground!<\/p>\n
**Updated: Nancy & Tom Biagini donated the space. A huge thanks to them for making this possible!<\/em><\/p>\n This post is part of our series celebrating\u00a0The Santa Clara City Library Foundation & Friends’ 20th anniversary! Please read to learn more<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of our longest-serving volunteers shared this photo with me of some of the original Foundation & Friends volunteers at the bookstore that we used to have on El Camino Real. What, you say? The Foundation & Friends Bookstore wasn’t always in the Central Park Library? Nope. We were founded in 2001, and Central Park … <\/p>\n