This April is the 20th annual National Diversity Awareness Month. We want to celebrate by acknowledging and appreciating our differences and similarities, and diversifying our reading! But what does “diversity” even mean? Diversity, at first glance, is a simple enough term to define. It means a group is heterogeneous or different characteristically. The parts that …
Colorado Black History & Book Choices It’s Black History Month! This month, we celebrate black futures and honor the unique contributions of Black individuals who shaped Colorado and the nation. Elvin R. Caldwell Sr. (1919–2004) Elizabeth Piper Ensley (1847–1919) Rachel B. Noel (1918–2008) Five Points Neighborhood Lucile Berkeley Buchanan (1884–1989) Fannie Mae Duncan (1918-2005) Find …
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National Native American Heritage Month celebrates and recognizes the accomplishments of the peoples who were the original inhabitants, explorers, and settlers of the United States. The Federal Register recognizes 573 separate tribal entities living in the United States today. The more populous tribes include Cherokee (729,000+), Navajo (298,000+), and Choctaw (158,000+). In honor of Indigenous …
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By Graham Lier and Ben Warner Learn more about the LGBTQ+ community with hand-picked choices that include fiction and non-fiction as well as young adults and children’s choices. We hope you enjoy our picks; after you choose a great read, scroll to the bottom of the page to learn some local queer history. Click the …
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, …
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