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Santa Clara County Library District | |
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Location | Santa Clara County, California |
Established | 1914 |
Branches | 8 |
Collection | |
Size | 2,382,642 |
Access and use | |
Circulation | 11,000,422 |
Population served | 454,040 |
Members | 368,314 |
Other information | |
Budget | $76,282,817 |
Director | Jennifer Weeks |
Employees | 339.6 FTE |
Website | sccld |
The Santa Clara County Library District is a public library system for Santa Clara County headquartered in Campbell, California. The library serves the communities and cities of Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Saratoga, and all unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County.[1] Other cities in Santa Clara County run their own library systems. In addition to these libraries, the library provides mobile library service with a bookmobile which visits preschools, retirement communities, migrant farmworker camps, and rural communities without easy access to library services. In 2020, SCCLD also launched a new website featuring a 24/7 online library.
Branch libraries include Campbell Library, Cupertino Library, Gilroy Library, Los Altos Library, Woodland Branch Library (Los Altos), Milpitas Library, Morgan Hill Library, and Saratoga Library.
The Santa Clara County Library District has been repeatedly recognized as a Star library by Library Journal with its most recent ranking of five stars making it one of the top library systems on its size in the county.[2] The Santa Clara County Library has a combined collection totaling more than 2.3 million items and served a combined population of 454,040.[1]