Meet Your Librarian Series – Poudre Libraries Blog

Adventure in the Shelves: From Bombers to Books to Blooms

by Annaclaire CrumptonLibrary Blog, Meet Your Librarian Series January 25, 2024January 25, 2024Comments are Disabled

Meet Your Library Staff – Benjamin Brantley, Assistant Circulation Supervisor and Library Assistant High up in Poudre Canyon, an abandoned an abandoned B17 bomber plane ages within the towering forest. In other locations of the Rocky Mountain forest floor lie patches of endangered wild orchid species welcoming only the most adventurous to absorb their beauty. Several canyons away, …

white woman smiling in front of a library

The Power of Purpose

by Annaclaire CrumptonLibrary Blog, Library Services, Meet Your Librarian Series January 15, 2024January 15, 2024Comments are Disabled

Meet Your Library Staff: Selena Paulsen, Development Officer In 2023, Selena, our Development Officer, raised over $227,000 of grant funding and generous donor contributions for Poudre Libraries. This represents an exponential increase in Poudre Libraries fundraising. Since she joined our organization in Fall 2022, Selena has been writing grants, building donor relationships, and creating pathways …

How Books Become Library Books

by Annaclaire CrumptonLibrary Blog, Library Services, Meet Your Librarian Series November 20, 2023November 20, 2023Comments are Disabled

Meet your Library Staff: Jessie Miglus Fresh off the press, a book has many paths to get into the hands of a reader. It may go to a local bookstore or a Target where it will be purchased and read by a few people over its time on earth. Certain books have their destinies written …

The Space to Be Yourself: Meet Your Library Staff

by Annaclaire CrumptonLibrary Programs, Meet Your Librarian Series, News June 15, 2023June 21, 2023Comments are Disabled

How two Library rockstars transformed Poudre Libraries approach to inclusive programming May 2022 marked the first time that Poudre Libraries hosted a recurring program specifically for the LGBTQIA+ community; our QSA program debuted in Spring of last year and Jace Long is the library employee behind it. When he’s not enjoying vanilla or matcha lattes, …

The Storytime Flutist of Fort Collins

by Annaclaire CrumptonLibrary Blog, Meet Your Librarian Series, News October 28, 2022October 31, 2022Comments are Disabled

Meet Your Librarian Series: Children’s Librarian, Jennifer Zachman One of the earliest manifestations of becoming a librarian may lie with Children’s Librarian Jennifer Zachman. Born in Canada and raised primarily in Minnesota and in a small town in Wisconsin, Jennifer recounts creating her very own library due slips for books she would loan out to …