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

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Katie Auman in Book Recommendations, History, Library Blog

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” […]

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Where Does the Time Go? Memories from the Last 34 Summer Reading Programs

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Katie Auman in History, Library Blog, Library Programs

The year was 1985. The Coca-Cola Company introduced New Coke and the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America. Michael Jordon was named the NBA’s “Rookie of the Year.” The first .com was registered and the first version of Windows was released. Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union. “We Are the […]

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Happy Birthday Old Town Library: 40 Years of Community, Culture, and Ideas

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Katie Auman in History, Library Blog

After 70 years of public library services at the Carnegie building on Mathews St., the demand on the building’s space and the library’s collection was reaching its limits. In 1974, the Carnegie building and the library staff were serving 65,000 people in a space designed for a city population of only 12,000 – and this […]

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Generation War – film review

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Julia Fox in History, Library Blog, Library Services, News

“Our beautiful yet delicate planet is at a crossroads. We can either continue to relate to each other with a tribal mentality in which we emphasize the distinctions between us, or we can pierce the mask of duality and embrace our underlying unity. The first choice inevitably leads to conflict, xenophobia and ecological devastation. The […]

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Historic Hysterical Tweets

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Erin Kirchoefer in History, Library Blog, Local Happenings

Some of us are constantly connected and some are luddites-by-choice; I expect if you’re reading this you fall into the first group.   Whatever your tech preferences, most of us would agree that we share a lot more personal information in today’s world than in years past.  Selfies in every possible location and position, tweets about […]

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