Access Books at Work

Families Come Together to Refresh the Library at Franklin Elementary!

Franklin Elementary is a school in Southeast San Jose where over 83% of families are socioeconomically disadvantaged, and 13% of the...

New Books and a Cheerful Space for Santee Elementary!

When we first visited the library at Santee Elementary in San Jose, the books were hard for the students to access as there was extra...

Thousands of Diverse Books Flood Little Free Libraries

Finding inclusive, culturally relevant books to read just got easier in the Bay Area. Today the national Little Free Library® (LFL)...

Donor Spotlight

Our Spring Library renovation at Santee Elementary School in San Jose is underway, thanks to a generous donation from Marilyn & Elizabeth...

It’s great to be back in person!

We love it when a plan comes together! Along with the New Year comes new opportunities to help children living in the Bay Area’s...

How COVID has changed our work

A typical Access Books Bay Area school library project doesn’t work well in pandemic times. Because of safety concerns over the past year...

Thank you Greene Middle School!

We want to give a shout out to the students and parents at Greene Middle School in Palo Alto! This community has conducted a book drive...

Teamwork to Create Little Libraries

Retirees, moms & young kids, artists, boy scouts & their dads, high school students, hobbyists… what do all of these people have in...