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 …

The Infamous Blackbeard

Ahoy! I, Captain Cache, decided to further me education this fall by enrollin’ in Pirate History 101. Not all pirates be illiterate ye know. I’m lovin’ the class ‘cept I have a HUGE research paper to write on the infamous Blackbeard, and I can’t use Wikipedia! Luckily for me, I’ve got access to the Answer …

“Green Up” Your Holidays

Happy December everyone! Hope you had a great holiday weekend, but as you know that was just the start of the season. Here are some ideas from the Library District Green Team to make your holidays, specifically the gift-giving aspects, more environmentally friendly. Ways to REDUCE this holiday season: Batteries – Roughly 40% of all …

Rid Yourself of Magazine Clutter and Cost

Do you have back issues of Newsweek, Better Homes and Gardens, and Audubon cluttering up your every countertop, table, and drawer? Poudre River Libraries can help! We have a solution for you with Zinio— a digital magazine distribution service that the Library District subscribes to. Magazines can be read on computers, smartphones, or tablets and …

Fort Collins 150th Anniversary: FC150

Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear Fort Collins Happy birthday to you FC150. Sounds like a lower division college course doesn’t it? FC-150, History of Fort Collins from 1864 to present. Close, but this “course” doesn’t cost any money and won’t earn you college credit. What it will do is …