Introduction to Kids LEGO Robotics
2025-10-11 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025 Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Presenter: Yan Zhu Location: 1st Floor Program Room
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a real engineer? Spend an hour designing, building, and programming a real robot using LEGO SPIKE Prime or Essential kits. You’ll get hands-on engineering experience with motors, sensors, and creative problem-solving. This presentation is the perfect way to introduce the high-level idea of LEGO Robotics engineering. No pressure. Just bring your imagination, play, learn and engineer.
Followed by a demonstration, attendees will break into groups to assemble a LEGO set together then write simple code to operate tablets.
13 tablets and LEGO kits will be provided, allowing for groups of up to 3 children per tablet.
Ages 6-13.
39 free tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis 30 minutes before the program. Please come to the First Floor Program Room to pick up your tickets starting at 1:30 p.m.
Note: To manage attendance, we will be implementing a ticketing system on a trial basis instead of pre-registration. This system will prioritize access for customers who are present in the building, helping to ensure that every seat is filled and to minimize no-shows from the registration list.

Dungeons & Dragons: Fall Mini Campaign
2025-10-11 14:00 - 16:00
We’re hosting a fall mini campaign! Our DM will guide you through the process from character creation and basic rules. Make your own character and get lost in the world of Dungeons and Dragons.
Snacks and refreshments provided.
For ages 13+. No registration required and walk-ins welcome.
For accessibility accommodations (ex. ASL), please fill out the online form at sccld.org/accessibility 7+days prior to the event. If you need assistance with the form, speak with a staff member at your local library, call (408) 540-3945, or email us at ask@sccl.org.

Banned Book Button Making
2025-10-11 14:00 - 16:30
Calling all book lovers! Let’s celebrate the freedom to read!
Get your button making on while spreading awareness about book banning and censorship!
Drop into the Cambrian Branch Library on designated afternoons during Banned Books Week to create buttons from a variety of designs. Participants are invited to make buttons for themselves as well as extras to share with the community.
Free. No registration required.
ADA Accommodation Requests

Dungeons & Dragons Teen Club
2025-10-11 14:30 - 17:30
The Dungeons & Dragons Teen Club will be meeting today. To become part of this club you must have attended the Session 0 event on Saturday, August 16th and committed to playing for the entire Fall 2025 semester. If you missed our Session 0 but are interested in playing next semester, please email teen librarian Hannah Clement directly so she can contact you when space becomes available.
For accessibility accommodations (ex. ASL), please fill out the online form at sccld.org/accessibility 7+days prior to the event. If you need assistance with the form, speak with a staff member at your local library, call (408) 540-3945, or email us at ask@sccl.org.

Foundations of Resilient Health: The Bone-Body Connection
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:00
Foundations of Resilient Health: a Wellness Series with Elizabeth Greenfield
Part 2: The Bone-Body Connection: Building Strength from the Inside Out
This talk covers how gut health, inflammation, and hormones all influence bone density. We’ll also discuss nutrients beyond calcium and safe, sustainable ways to support bone strength – whether you’re looking to prevent future issues or address early bone loss.
Key topics:

How bone health is influenced by gut health, hormones, and inflammation
Beyond calcium: the role of magnesium, vitamin K2, boron, and protein
Early warning signs your bones may need support
How toxins, medications (like PPIs), and inactivity impact bone strength
Strategies to build and preserve bone density naturally

Common concerns this addresses:

Wanting to protect bone health before problems start
Hesitation around starting medications for osteopenia
Interest in staying active, strong, and injury-resistant
Curiosity about how hormones, gut health, or inflammation affect bones
Concern about future fractures or family history of osteoporosis

Other events in this series:
Part 1: The Truth About Toxins
Saturday, September 27th 3pm
Part 3: Your Brain, Your Power – Mood, Memory, & Mental Clarity at Any Age
Saturday, November 8th 3pm
For accessibility accommodations (ex. ASL), please fill out the online form at sccld.org/accessibility 7+days prior to the event. If you need assistance with the form, speak with a staff member at your local library, call (408) 540-3945, or email us at ask@sccl.org.

Not So Scary Kids Halloween Magic Show
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:00
Join us in costume for the Not-So-Scary Kids Halloween Magic Show. It’s a magic show full of Halloween fun that’s appropriate for all ages! No registration required.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Saratoga Libraries
For accessibility accommodations (ex. ASL), please fill out the online form at sccld.org/accessibility7+days prior to the event. If you need assistance with the form, speak with a staff member at yourlocal library, call (408) 540-3945, or email us at ask@sccl.org.

English Language Learner (ELL) Conversation Club
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:00
In-person at the Tully Branch Library.
English Language Learner (ELL) Conversation Clubs create a welcoming and respectful environment for adult learners of English to practice their English conversation skills.
Clubs meet weekly at the library.
ADA Accommodation Requests

U.S. Citizenship Mock Interview Practice
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:00
Are you ready to begin your path towards citizenship?
Join us in person to practice for the U.S. Citizenship Interview and learn about:

N-400 test questions
Civic Test
Practice the reading and writing test
Become more comfortable with the interview
Learn strategies on how to interview

Free. In-Person. No registration required.

¿Están listos para el camino a la ciudadanía?
Acompañenos a practicar en persona para la entrevista
del examen de naturalización y aprender:

Las preguntas de N-400

Prueba CivicaPracticar las preguntas leyendolas y escribiendolas

Sentirse confortable con la entrevista
Aprenda algunas estrategias para entrevistar

ADA Accommodation Requests

Reading to Children with Volunteer Venkat (Hybrid: In-Person and Online)
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:00
Would you like your children to have fun listening to stories while building vocabulary, developing listening skills, and enhancing their reading comprehension?
Join us for virtual Reading to Children where SJPL volunteer Venkat will read aloud a variety of stories!
This event is designed for children in preschool-4th grade, but all ages are welcome to attend. Families have the option of either attending in-person at the East San Jose Carnegie branch library or online via Zoom.
If you wish to attend online, please e-mail Sarah Kishler at sarah.kishler@sjlbrary.org to register and receive a Zoom link. Both in-person and virtual attendees local to the San Jose area have a chance to win a free book!
ADA Accommodation Requests

Practice Your Spanish Speaking Skills: Spanish Language Learners
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:00
Meeting once a week on Saturday at the Alum Rock Library Branch, “Practice your Spanish Speaking Skills: Spanish Language Learners” will help teach Spanish to anyone from a Spanish-speaking household or not.
ADA Accommodation Requests

LEGO® Club - Club LEGO®
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:30
Open to anyone interested, there is no need to sign up. This will give children the opportunity to get creative and build anything they choose with LOTS of LEGO® bricks. They can either work on their own creations or build as a team.
Free. No registration is required. Recommended for ages 3 – 17 and families/caregivers.
LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO® Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site.
ADA Accommodation Requests

Abierto a todos los interesados, no se necesita inscribirse. Los niños tendrán la oportunidad de ser creativos y construir lo que quieran con MUCHO LEGO. Pueden trabajar en sus propias creaciones o construir en equipo.
Gratuito. No es necesario inscribirse. Recomendado para edades de 3 a 17 años y familias/cuidadores.
Solicitudes de adaptaciones ADA

A TeenHQ "BANNED" Theater Performance
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:30
TeenHQ Theater (formerly Teen Zoom Theater), in a special collaboration between SJPL and SJSU to honor Banned Book Week 2025 performs THE HOBBIT with its first intergenerational cast for its 15th production!

Bilbo Baggins is a comfortably well-off hobbit with a love for rousing adventure stories. Real adventures, however, are definitely not his cup of tea. So when Gandalf the wizard knocks at Bilbo’s door, bringing with him Thorin Oakenshield, 11 ragged looking dwarfs and a contract for an adventure to recover the lost treasure of Lonely Mountain, Bilbo could not be less interested—at first. But Bilbo’s love of a good story gets the better of him, and before he knows it, he is off on a perilous quest over mountain and under hill through caves and forest and slimy dark places.
Join us for this charming adventure full of mythical creatures, magical artifacts and cheeky humor. This is a free event with an equally free concession stand. All seating and refreshments are first come, first serve.
(General Audience is welcome)
ADA Accommodation Requests

Coronas de Flores for Teens
2025-10-11 15:00 - 17:00
Join us to make your own corona de flores, or flower crown! We’ll be making our own flowers out of different types of paper to build customized, dreamy headpieces inspired by the works of Frida Kahlo, in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Register to reserve your spot; walk-ins welcome as space allows. No experience needed. All tools and materials supplied. This program is just for teens ages 12 to 18. No exceptions! Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

Girls Who Code
2025-10-11 15:30 - 16:30
Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025 Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm Location: Technology Lab
The Los Gatos Library has partnered with @GirlsWhoCode to create a club meant for people ages 12-18 to learn to code and change the world!
"What will I Learn?
Our middle and high school Clubs encourage you to impact the community in a positive way through code. In order to build the skills you need to make an impact, you will learn how to code from our fun online tutorials and activities that will help you build animations, games, apps, and other things that you dream up! We have tutorials in Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and Java."
Email: signup@gwc-losgatos.org to register.

Open Poetry Readings
2025-10-11 15:30 - 17:00
Everyone is welcome to attend and listen or read poetry and join in related discussions. Meetings are on the second Saturday of every month, no sign up required.
The Garlicky Group of Poets has been hosted by the Gilroy Library since 1995. These monthly readings attract residents from throughout South County.
Ed Nauss founded the readings which are free and open to all, not just poets. “Procedures are relaxed, informal, providing equal opportunity for all,” he said. “There is never a ‘featured’ reader, nor is there any internal competition. Nobody gets ‘slammed.’”
The Gilroy Dispatch published a lovely article commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Garlicky Poets:
https://gilroydispatch.com/poe…

The Zebras String Quartet
2025-10-11 16:00 - 17:00
The Zebras String Quartet will be performing in the Secret Garden on Saturday, October 11, providing a lovely musical experience for patrons throughout the library to enjoy. Join us for this unique opportunity to hear them!
The Zebras String Quartet is made up of four talented young musicians from Menlo Park who came together to share their joy of classical music. All four musicians are also active members of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra and at the California Youth Symphony, both award-winning and highly recognized youth orchestras in the Bay Area.
The Zebras gets its name from the first initials of its members: Zachary Koh, Brock Bakan, Ryan Wang, and Sean Wang.

Reading Buddies
2025-10-11 16:00 - 17:00
Reading Buddies provides students in grades K-3 with an opportunity to improve their reading skills by working one-on-one with a volunteer. Reading Buddies creates a positive reading experience for beginning and developing readers and helps children build confidence as readers. Our volunteers will listen to children read and provide support in phonics, sight words, and comprehension. Students can bring their favorite book or choose from the available selection at the West Valley Branch Library.
Free. Pre-registration not required. However, reading sessions are available on a first come, first served basis and the duration of reading sessions may be limited depending on the number of volunteers and/or participating students.
ADA Accommodation Requests

Math = Fun (Math Olympiad)
2025-10-11 16:00 - 17:00
Want to grow in basic competitive math skills? Join us in Math = Fun and practice 4-5 elementary school and middle school Math Olympiad problems. See your math and problem-solving skills improve! For children 8-12 years old.
Free. Online registration required.
Sessions are not related. Participants must sign up for every session they plan to attend.
This program meets weekly on Saturdays (8/9/2025 – 12/13/2025) from 4pm-5pm in the Santa Teresa Library Community Room.
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Chess Club: Beginner to Intermediate
2025-10-11 16:00 - 17:00
Come learn to play chess! This is a weekly welcoming workshop for players who are new or want to brush up on their chess knowledge or tactics. Each week will consist of a short presentation and dedicated time to practice through a game.
For ages 8-18. Limited seating up to 20 players. Free. Registration required.
ADA Accommodation Requests

ESL Writing Club
2025-10-11 16:00 - 17:30
Practice basic writing skills in English with our tutor in a welcoming and respectful environment for adult learners. Sessions will include creating simple sentence structures, some basic grammar, and build up to writing a simple paragraph.
Free. No registration required.
ADA Accommodation Requests

Teen Book Club
2025-10-11 16:00 - 17:30
Interested in discussing books with other teens? Join our teen book club!
We’ll be playing a Kahoot game and discussing “The Cruel Prince” by Holly Black and “The Inheritance Games” by Jennifer Barnes.
For teens (ages 13-18) only.
Free. Online registration required.
ADA Accommodation Requests

Tech Mentor
2025-10-11 16:00 - 18:00
Need help printing or using Word and Excel? Want to set up an email account? Need ideas on tech security? Questions on accessing SJPL eResources? From the basics to somewhat beyond, volunteer tech mentors are here to help with thoughtful advice and problem-solving. We will do our best to assist you with your tech dilemmas.
Free. No registration or appointment required. Just drop by and ask for assistance.

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