Feel like you’re running out of fun activities to do during these dog days of summer? We’ve come up with a few creative ideas to do through your libraries. Let us know what your best boredom-busters are in the comments! 1 Create your Comic Con Cosplay Outfit Fort Collins Comic Con is coming up August […]
Happy Birthday Old Town Library: 40 Years of Community, Culture, and Ideas

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 […]
Historic Hysterical Tweets

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 […]
Did Ye Know? 7 Fun Facts from Captain Cache

Ahoy mateys! I’ve been diggin’ ’round t’ Answer Cache again recently and found tons o’ facts I be want’ to share with ye. Shiver me timbers, the things ye can find searchin’ through that site o’ knowledge treasure. Olá, como vai você? Você fala Portuguese? That means “Hello, how are you? Do you speak Portuguese? […]
Naming the Poudre River

http://traffic.libsyn.com/poudrelibraries/Namin_the_Poudre_River.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHistory facts wit’ Captain Cache Yesterday it be cold and rainy, and I was huddled below deck in the Reading Rodger. It be a perfect day for researchin’ I thought, so I fired up me computer and navigated to the Answer Cache under the Research Tab of the […]