Updated children’s area designed to help with early literacy The Santa Clara County Library District’s latest children’s space is set to open at the Milpitas Library on June 14.

At least the first time around. Richmond and her fellow trustees believe they know what’s best for taxpayers in the Round Lake area. They maintain the library is too small at 28,000 square feet.

Ann Arbor is poised to get a new downtown library officials say will be even bigger and better now that it will be able to ...

The outdoor trail and nature play area will include native plants. “The updates at Centre Branch are just the beginning of our larger vision for SJCPL,” Stephanie Murphy, the library system ...

It is the first completed Storybook Children’s Play Space in the Santa Clara County Library District, part of an initiative to help children 10 and younger build early literacy skills.

The playground will be an extension of the Kiwanis Kids Idea Studio, an indoor children’s play space that opened at the James City County Library in 2021.

Friends Cafe, Alameda Free Library Customers enjoy their drinks and pastries at the Alameda Library Friends Cafe in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) ...