Celebrating 10 Years of Restocking Libraries, calling volunteers for our upcoming refurbishment at Galarza and thanking the donors, sponsors, partners and local authors who make our work possible!

We are honored this summer to be partnering for the third consecutive year with the beloved, family-owned Linden Tree Books in Los Altos for our Summer Book Drive! It’s our 10th anniversary this year! 

Call for volunteers, our refurbishment at Muwekma Ohlone Middle School (“Ohlone”) in San José and a HUGE shout-out to our supporters!

Our next school library refurbishment project is coming up on Saturday, January 31, 2026, and we are looking for book processing and mural painting volunteers. We would also like to thank our donors, sponsors and the authors and illustrators helping us in our mission!

In September, we partnered with Lead Elementary School to refurbish their library with the generous support of the Sharks Foundation through their 2024-25 Goals for Kids program! Help us reach our fundraising goal so we can continue increasing access to books for underserved children!

Announcing our next library refurbishment, Q&A with Executive Director Amanda Collins for National Non-Profit Day and updates from a successful summer! 

Even as the school year comes to an end, our commitment to supporting students in need doesn't stop! We're proud to partner with Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment, an incredible organization that offers temporary housing and critical services to displaced families in San Jose.

The Garfield Community School Library Refurbishment marked our 20th library refurbishment! At Garfield, 95% of the student population is socioeconomically disadvantaged, 97% are Hispanic/Latino and 70% are English Language Learners. Due to low funding, their school library collection was woefully outdated.

Happy New Year to our friends and supporters from Access Books Bay Area! Thank you so much to everyone who supported our work in 2024. Every dollar, and every book, counts when you are an organization as small as we are, and so it was amazing to see all of the contributions, both in book drives and in dollars, that you all contributed over the last year.

This Giving Tuesday we are reflecting on the incredible impact we’ve made together thanks to generous supporters like you! With your help, we can continue to provide vibrant libraries and inclusive books to underserved schools and vulnerable communities. 

We’ve done it again! Students at Hoover Community School now have a newly refurbished library with an additional 1,290 brand-new, diverse, culturally relevant books in both English and Spanish, and 3 delightful murals. This refurbishment marks our 19th project to date!

We are blazing through 2024 with yet another school library refurbishment under our belt, mere months after completing our first one of the year. The Stonegate Elementary school library refurbishment marks our 18th project since we started out in 2016, dreaming of bridging the literacy gap in our corner of the world.

What a great year! Access Books Bay Area, along with our awesome volunteers and donors, has made a difference in the lives of Bay Area children living in underserved communities.