Help for the Under and Uninsured in California

Californians for Patient Care believe that healthcare is a human right. Visit its CalPatientCare website or MyHealthResource and find a variety of local, statewide and federal service and resources for the uninsured and underinsured including:

• Free or low cost healthcare services and programs
• Community clinics (not-for-profit)
• Senior and Veterans programs
• Free cancer screening programs
• Maternal/Child health services
• Prescription assistance
• Homeless resources

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Honor Veterans at Central Park in Santa Clara

Both Central Park Library and Mission Family Reading Center Library will be closed Wednesday, November 11 for Veterans Day. Computer systems will be upgraded so no library services will be available. Wednesday, November 12, there will be limited computer services. Read more on our website.

Join Assemblymember Paul Fong and keynote speaker, Staff Sergeant Denny Weisgerber USMC Retired Navy Cross & Purple Heart recipient, Korea at 3:30 p.m. at the Santa Clara Veterans Memorial in Central Park at 909 Kiely Blvd. Handicap parking and wheelchair assistance are available in the employee parking lot at the Community Recreation Center. For more information about the ceremony or how to have a brick installed at this memorial to honor a veteran contact James Lee at (408) 296-2512.

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Wash Your Hands!

Now, in the midst of the H1N1 flu pandemic, it's essential that we take measures to protect ourselves and our families from infection and illness.

Here's a statement from the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Hand washing is the single most important prevention step for reducing disease transmission.”

Everything you touch has GERMS that were left there by other people. When you touch an object, you pick up GERMS. (Yuck!) Just think about this: Who else touched the doorknob, the toilet, the water faucet, the telephone, the book, the pencil, the mouse or the keyboard?

Cleaning your hands, with sanitizer or soap and water, is the ONLY way to stop those GERMS.

The November "On the Path to Good Health" exhibit in Youth Services features literature that explains the importance of hand washing. November is "National Healthy Skin Month." The exhibit is supported by Kaiser Permanente and the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends.
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Finding Magazine Articles

Are you looking for magazine articles for a report or an article you read but no longer have?

A good place to begin your search is MasterFILE Premier. It contains the full-text of articles from nearly 1,700 general interest magazines. You will find magazines such as Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, and Consumer Reports. You can access the MasterFILE Premier database from home or within the library. You will find it on the Research Databases page of the library's website.

May be what you are really looking for is an academic journal article or a peer reviewed article for your college class, then try the Academic Search Complete database. You will also find it on the library's Research Databases page.

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Prepare for Your Graduate School Exam

Are you planning to go graduate school? Are you preparing to take a graduate school entrance exam?

If you will be taking the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, or MCAT, take practice tests using Learning Express Library. Learning Express Library offers practice exams for each of these tests via the Library’s website.

To begin using Learning Express go to our home page and click on the Research Databases link. On the Research Databases page click on Learning Express. Your first time at the site create a username and password. Use your library card bar code number as your username. This will allow you to access Learning Express from home or other locations away from the library.

We also have test preparation books which you can borrow. To see books available in our catalog click on one of the following links.

• GRE
• GMAT
• LSAT
• MCAT

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Arielle Nadler Caldecott Collection

Each year, the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, awards the Caldecott Medal to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. This award, which has been presented annually since 1938, is named in honor of Randolph Caldecott, a 19th Century English artist who illustrated 16 children's books that were popular in Victorian England. Each year, for eight consecutive years, he illustrated two books that were published at Christmas time.

The Santa Clara City Library features books that have been honored with the Caldecott Medal in a special collection, the Arielle Nadler Caldecott Collection, which is dedicated to the memory of Arielle Nadler, the stillborn daughter of Judy Nadler, former Mayor of the City of Santa Clara, and Jerome Nadler, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge. Arielle Nadler was buried in Santa Clara in April, 1989. She is survived by a twin sister, as well as an older sibling.

The Arielle Nadler Caldecott Collection is located in the Picture Book section of the Youth Services Department. Each year, the Caldecott Medal book is added to the collection, which can be read and enjoyed in the Library by patrons of any age. Copies of all the Caldecott Medal books, from 1938 to the present, are included in the Arielle Nadler collection. Ask a Youth Services librarian to help you find this collection that is filled with favorite books such as Make Way for Ducklings, the 1942 Caldecott Medal winner by Robert McCloskey; Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, the 1976 winner that was illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, and Snowflake Bentley, the 1999 winner that was illustrated by Mary Azarian.

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Tips for Trick or Treat and parties

Find them at a new web site for food safety from the federal government.

Ask questions, get good information about safe food preparation and learn about food illnesses.

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