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Arab American Heritage Month: A Book List

By Customer Experience Representative, Nicole Chipp To celebrate Arab American Heritage Month, let’s all pick up a book written by Arab American authors! Many of these books focus on the struggles Arab Americans face due to xenophobia and islamophobia. These issues hit a peak after 9/11 and President Bush’s War on Terror. To combat these …

Exploring Pebble Go

By Bonnie Post, Library Assistant Your library card can unlock worlds of possibilities; one of these worlds is the excellent learning resource, PebbleGo! Access this wonderful resource that provides a wealth of exciting and fun activities to reinforce learning.  Use PebbleGo for Free! PebbleGo is designed for beginner readers Kindergarten through 3rd grade and is …

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Putting Global Issues On the Map

By Substitute Library Assistant, Laura Puls Between the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing conflicts, climate change, and economic shocks, we experience daily how Colorado is connected to countries around the world. We’re not alone in paying attention to what’s happening internationally: in a 2022 Pew questionnaire, Americans gave more correct answers than incorrect answers about global events.   …

Exploring the Library’s Multilingual Collection

By Substitute Library Assistant, Laura Puls Inclusion is one of our core values at Poudre River Public Library District; we want everyone to be able to learn, grow, and belong.   As of 2018, 12 percent of Fort Collins residents use languages besides English at home. Spanish, Indo-European languages, and Asian and Pacific Island languages were …

Engaging Young Minds with Scholastic Teachables

By Bonnie Post Your library card can unlock worlds of possibilities; one of these worlds is the excellent learning resource – Scholastic Teachables! With your library card, access this wonderful resource that provides a wealth of exciting and fun activities to reinforce learning.   From preschool to 8th grade, Teachables provides a wide range of activities – …