Colorado is home to beautiful mountains and open spaces, amazing cities and towns, and a vibrant collage of people and cultures. To capture all of what Colorado has to offer is nearly impossible. But this month we want to at least highlight a few of the authors who call Colorado home. These books, eBooks, and …
Read more “Colorado Voices: From Backroads to Westering Women”
March is Women’s History Month and the library has some awesome ways to celebrate and perhaps discover something new. We hope you’ll take this opportunity to learn about women’s achievements in our history, big and small. This exciting mix of contemporary books, eBooks, audiobooks, and documentaries showcases the history and lives of amazing women, from …
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 …
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 …
Read more “Happy Birthday Old Town Library: 40 Years of Community, Culture, and Ideas”
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 …