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Celebrate Your Right to Read
Banned Books Week is October 1-7 The theme for this year’s Banned Books Week is “Let Freedom Read.” …
Fellows in Focus
Library Beginnings from ISAAC’s Adelante Fellowship Remember the feeling of walking into your …
Disability Pride Month Book List
By Wendy Pillard, Bilingual Library Assistant Learn more about Disability Pride Month, a month celeb…
Queer Voices, Queer Stories: A Pride Collection
By Graham Lier and Ben Warner Learn more about the LGBTQ+ community with hand-picked choices that in…
The Space to Be Yourself: Meet Your Library Staff
How two Library rockstars transformed Poudre Libraries approach to inclusive programming May 2…
Share Love, Celebrate Pride : A LGBTQ+ Book List
Find dozens of choices hand-picked by Library staff to celebrate Pride! Recommendations by Age-Group…
A Book List for Jewish American Heritage Month
By Arysa Flores (Library Assistant), Chris Lederhos (Computer Lab Monitor), and Julianna Web (Custom…
Meet our New Board Members
In April, we welcomed two new members to the Library Board of Trustees. Hilary Herrmann and Josh Fud…
Arab American Heritage Month: A Book List
By Customer Experience Representative, Nicole Chipp To celebrate Arab American Heritage Month, let’s…
Support Local Businesses & Your Library on Library Giving Day
Calling all library lovers! We’ve teamed up with various businesses for #LibraryGivingDay on Tuesday…
Learn Your Herstory: Women’s History Month 2023
Theodosia Ammons For centuries, higher education and academia was dominated by men. Theodosia …
1998 vs Now
25 Years of Harmony Library, A Look at 1998 and Today In 1998, “The Boy is Mine” by Brandy and Moni…
For the Love of Reading
FoCo Book Fest to Host 33 authors and 38 Sessions Many of us can point to a book or author that made…
Automatic Renewals Begin February 1
You can cross “renew library books” off your To-Do list. Starting February 1, 2023, libr…
Colorado Black History / Historia Negra de Colorado
It’s Black History Month! This month, we honor the unique contributions of Black individuals w…
2023: A Look Ahead
As we turn the page on the calendar to begin a new year, we wanted to take a moment to revisit some …
Harmony, Education, and Determination through the Decades
Meet Your Librarian Series: Elaine Burritt, Adult Services Librarian There’s a name for the in…
Exploring Pebble Go
By Bonnie Post, Library Assistant Your library card can unlock worlds of possibilities; one of these…
We Have Work to Do: Celebrating LGBTQ+ Identity, History, and Stories
Book & Film Recommendations Following the Events at Club Q in Colorado Springs Now is the time f…
Community Mural Project: From LATAM to FoCo
Around 20 community members took part in a mural project led by Poudre Libraries and artist Carla Ga…
The Storytime Flutist of Fort Collins
Meet Your Librarian Series: Children’s Librarian, Jennifer Zachman One of the earliest manifes…
A Celebration of Remarkable Community Leaders for Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month | Una celebración de destacados líderes comunitarios para el Mes de la Herencia Hispana y Latinx
Here in Northern Colorado, there are countless Hispanic/Latinx leaders that have shaped Northern Col…
Poudre Libraries, Staff Recognized for Outstanding Service to the Community
Library Book Bike Earns Community Impact Award Poudre Libraries is the winner of the 2022Book Bike C…
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Launches in Larimer County
We know that reading begins at birth, and the benefits of a home library go far beyond the simple ac…
Putting Global Issues On the Map
By Substitute Library Assistant, Laura Puls Between the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing conflicts, climat…
Years at the “Great Equalizer”
Meet Your Librarian Series: Adult Librarian, Meg Schiel From traveling across the country with New B…
Fort Collins Comic Con Returns August 27 & 28
Calling all Grogus and baby Groots, Lady Thors and Wanda Maximoffs! It’s time for Fort Collins Comic…
Tools for Your Great Resignation (or Your Ongoing Career)
Last year, over 47 million people left their jobs. Social scientists have coined this ma…
The Community in Focus
Meet Your Librarian Series: África García-Fariña The Library’s Community Outreach Department i…
The Right to the Story
Meet Your Librarian Series: Children’s Librarian, Amy Holzworth Love in the library comes in many f…
Savor Summer with the Library
Cost-free Experiences, Gadgets, and Crafts to Make the Most of Summer 2022 Have you been filling up…