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Lexile and Accelerated Reader Information Now in Catalog

Through a new automated process, Lexile and Accelerated Reader information has been added to 44,000 juvenile and teen listings in the library catalog. Both Lexile and Accelerated Reader are reading...

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Enhance Early Literacy with TALES Kits

With the Library District’s new TALES Kits, Larimer County parents and caregivers can help their children develop early literacy skills when they can’t make it to Library Storytimes. With Take Away...

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A New Holiday Book Tradition

I know this is not breaking news, given what’s been in stores since pre-Halloween, but the holiday season is upon us. Since we’re already here, I wanted to share one of my holiday family traditions...

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Generation War – film review

“Our beautiful yet delicate planet is at a crossroads. We can either continue to relate to each other with a tribal mentality in which we emphasize the distinctions between us, or we can pierce the...

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Resolutions, Resolves and….Reading?

It’s that time of year: resolutions, resolves and….reading? With the holiday blaze behind us, we’re all turning our sights on improvement.  Diet, decluttering, and self-betterment goals tend to get the...

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Dad Reads – Awesome Interactive Books For Tricky Topics

Keeping a 2-year old’s attention is no easy task. My wife and I hit the jackpot with a boy who loves to read, but it probably didn’t hurt that ever since he was a bright blur on an ultrasound, we’ve...

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5 Ways to Avoid the “Summer Slide” and Keep Kids Reading

School’s almost out for summer, and teachers and parents everywhere are already talking about how to prevent children from experiencing the dreaded “summer slide.” Here are some fun ways to keep your...

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Behind the Scenes at Poudre Libraries – Selecting Materials

Have you ever wondered how the Poudre River Public Library selects books and other materials for purchase?  How do the librarians know what the public wants or needs?  How do they keep the collection...

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Behind the Scenes at Poudre Libraries – Collection Management

How the Collection is Managed and Maintained Having purchased new items for the Library, librarians do not then rest with their feet up on their desks, content with a job well done.  The collection of...

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eResource Homework Help

School is back in session and with that comes the dreaded “I need help with my homework”. I know my husband and I did pretty well through the early grades, but when algebra loomed it’s ugly head I...

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NaNoWriMo Begins!

Some of you may have heard the term “NaNoWriMo” bandied about, or seen posters at the library about “write-ins”, and thought maybe this was probably some sort of covert library gang that politely...

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OWL? Time for a name…

Did you know there was a time that people were afraid of the internet? And no, we’re not talking about the time of The Terminator when networked computers essentially created robots to kill humanity...

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A Little Birdie Told Me…

A Free Book for all 4-Year-Olds! Calling all four-year-olds (and their families)! At our One Book 4 Colorado celebration you can meet some live raptors and some just-hatched baby chicks, enjoy great...

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How Fast Can You Read?

Seriously – how fast can you get through a 300 page novel? If you’re like these folks on GoodReads you can probably get through a 300 page novel, non-stop, in about 3-6 hours. Did you know that the...

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Books for Babies (you can find ’em all at the Poudre Libraries)

I recently became a grandmother for the tenth time to a preemie. As the Early Literacy Librarian for our Library District, I know the importance of reading to your child from the day she/he is born. So...

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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...

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June Be Audiobook Month!

updated 6/13/19 Matey, did ye know June be National Audiobook Month? What a perfect time o’ year too, when people be roadtrippin’, an’ travelin’, an’ exercisin’. Ye can take an audiobook anywhere! Now,...

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Book Clubs – More than the book

Last August I attended my first book club meeting at the Council Tree Library, that meeting being the one where members decide which books to read in the coming months. Joining a book club was a goal...

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DIY Backyard Chickens

When Jan Brett visited Fort Collins in June she talked about one of her true loves in life: raising chickens. In case you didn’t know, the bestselling author-illustrator is also a chicken fanatic. In...

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Writing My First Children’s Book

When my son Ryland was born, we started to read night after night of fun, colorful tales. Our current favorites include Good Night, I Love You, Little Green Peas, Goodnight, Goodnight Construction...

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