Getting Ready to Plant a Garden

Guest post by Erika Strote, Colorado State University Extension Master Gardener in Larimer County Rising spring temperatures tend to trigger an outbreak of garden fever in those of us who love to get our hands in the dirt. Seed packets and plants find their way into our grocery carts in lieu of actual produce, tempting …

Evil Librarians Take Over the World and Other Book Recommendations

Perhaps the only thing better than visiting the library to check out books is reading an exciting page turner set in a library (or a parallel universe library)! Evil librarians take over the world…mysterious books that unlock secrets…strange murders in the stacks. If you can think of a story plot set in a library, there’s …

Prepare for the Final Season of Game of Thrones

If you’re like many of us here at the library, you’re in deep denial that the final season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” is starting this month. And to make it worse, we STILL don’t have the sixth book in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series from George, yet! So what’s a Westeros …

Council Tree Library is Ten Years Old!

Special guest post by Currie Meyer, Manager of Council Tree Library Recently, I stopped to chat with a Council Tree Library “regular”. A friendly mom of four young children, she has attended storytimes with each of them since the oldest – now eleven – was a baby. As we talked, her eleven-year-old daughter lingered. I …

Thought Your Book Was Late? This One’s Nearly 40 Years Overdue

It’s a story that will make you laugh! It certainly made all of us at the Library District smile. Recently, Poudre River Public Library District received an unexpected package in the mail. It contained an old Fort Collins Public Library book that was nearly 40 years overdue! The long lost book? “Working with Stained Glass” …