Santa Clara County Library

The Gilroy Library is Closed
7652 Monterey Street • Gilroy, California • 95020-6193 • 408.842.8207 Lani D. Yoshimura, Community Librarian • Gilroy_Manager@library.sccgov.org Questions about library accounts • circulation@library.sccgov.org
The Gilroy Library is CLOSED as of December 2 for relocation. Click here for information about the move and returning library materials. Additional information is also provided below.

Directions

Getting to Know Your Library
Connecting with the Community

Holiday Closure Information

GILROY LIBRARY RE-OPENING DELAYED

There has been a delay in the Gilroy Library's move into its temporary location:

7652 Monterey Street (Between 3rd and 4th St.) , Gilroy

We expect to re-open by mid- February 2010.

Worried about overdue materials?
Items checked out at the Gilroy Library and due February 2, 2010 have had their due dates extended to March 2, 2010. You may also return items to the Morgan Hill Library.

--Thank you for your patience

WHY THE MOVE?
In 2008, the citizens of Gilroy voted to build a new library. During construction, the library will move to a temporary site downtown for about 2 years.

Library Support Groups

Library Holds and Returns

HOLDS
Holds can be sent to the Morgan Hill Library for pickup. You may also choose to do the following:

Change the pickup location of your hold to another Santa Clara County library.
Make your holds inactive. You will keep your place on the hold queue. Reactivate your hold when the library reopens.

RETURNS
Between December 2nd and the reopening of the library at the temporary facility, return items to Morgan Hill Library or Bookmobile or keep them at home.

BOOKMOBILE
Bookmobile has regular stops in South County.

Programs & Events

Story times: Will resume when we reopen

The Gilroy Writing Project

Gilroy Library Book Club

Next meeting (note new time and place):
Tuesday
January 26th, 2010
at 7:00pm
Gilroy Police Dept.,
Lobby Conf. Room,
7301 Hanna Street, Gilroy, 95020

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles.

See our Gilroy Library Book Club page for more information!

2010 Silicon Valley Reads Information:

In defense of food: an eater's manifesto by Michael Pollan is the Silicon Valley Reads selection for 2010.

The children's companion books are Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman and Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens.

More information on the books and events can be found on the Silicon Valley Reads site. Check back with us later for information on the Gilroy Library's 2010 writing contest.

Click on the graphic to see our "Gilroy Library: Feast" page for an application, information and rules about the writing contest. Entries will be accepted from February 1, 2010 until March 21, 2010.

David Mas Masumoto -
Author Talk and Book Signing

David Mas Masumoto is a writer, artist and farmer. His latest book is Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land. Masumoto's Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm was chosen as the Silicon Valley Reads' 2005 selection. He also wrote Harvest Son, Planting Roots in American Soils.

Thursday, March 18, 7:00 pm.
Gilroy Senior Center
7371 Hanna Street, Gilroy

Co-sponsored by Friends of the Gilroy Library, Gilroy Library Commission, American Association of University Women (Gilroy branch), Gilroy Writing Project, Vision Literacy.

GILROY LIBRARY RE-OPENING DELAYED

Library Holds and Returns

Gilroy Library Book Club

2010 Silicon Valley Reads Information:

David Mas Masumoto - Author Talk and Book Signing

David Mas Masumoto -
Author Talk and Book Signing