Eclectic Library Resources for Musicians

Musicians, take note. You probably spend much of your day thinking about music, listening to music and creating music. As with any creative pursuit, you need a lot of inputs to generate new outputs. That’s why the folks at Cohere Bandwidth in Fort Collins spent an afternoon sorting through the online library resources. Here are …

Captain Cache: New Years Arrr-ound the World

Updated 12/12/2018 with Captain Cache podcast episode.   Ahoy Mateys and a Happy New Year to ye! With the season’s cold and icy waters, I be hunkered down in me Cap’n’s quarters. In an attempt to be festive, I’ve been researchin’ new year’s around the world and have found some pretty interestin’ facts! Did ye …

What’s All the Hoopla?

Hoopla: talk or writing that is designed to get people excited about and interested in something: TO-DO; also : BALLYHOO (from Merriam Webster) The Poudre River Public Library District is the perfect place to discover what all the “hoopla” is about! We have now added hoopla– a streaming digital service with access to thousands of …

25+ Holiday Gift Books for Children: Beyond the Best-Seller Lists (Mostly)

Are you gift shopping for a child in your life? Books are great gifts for kids of all ages. Gift books give importance to books and reading, provide tired kids and their adults with a quiet activity among all the treats and excitement of the holiday season, and keep on giving as the books are …

Creating Community Through Book Sharing

The Do-It-Yourself Library- Have you recently biked around Fort Collins and noticed what looks like extra-large birdhouses in people’s yards and wondered what they were? If you got close enough, you saw that these small structures are full of books, and that the books are all free. These mini-libraries are part of the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) …