Tag: pikes peak library district
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Applications open for three positions on the Pikes Peak Library District Board
Three positions on the Pikes Peak Library District Board of Trustees are open for applications. The terms for board President Aaron Salt and Vice President Erin Bents will expire at the end of the year. Julie Smyth, who served as the board secretary, stepped down at the end of May and her seat has since…
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Palmer Lake Library prepares to expand hours with new ‘hybrid’ model for patrons
One of the smallest libraries in the Pikes Peak Library District will be the first to take on a new approach to expanding access. The Palmer Lake Library takes up the second floor of a small building near the center of the town, immediately above the Lucretia Vaile Museum. It has the shortest hours of…
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Palmer Lake Library prepares to expand hours with new ‘hybrid’ model for patrons
One of the smallest libraries in the Pikes Peak Library District will be the first to take on a new approach to expanding access. The Palmer Lake Library takes up the second floor of a small building near the center of the town, immediately above the Lucretia Vaile Museum. It has the shortest hours of…
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Seeking independence, Colorado Springs kids protest library district’s rules on unsupervised sojourns
Nine-year-old Lucy Rodriguez is homeschooled year-round and in the summer enjoys riding her bike, reading her favorite authors and learning about the world. For the past week, the third grader has devoted several hours a day to standing outside of her neighborhood library waving signs she painted herself with messages such as “Let Me Learn”…
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Unearth an adventure with PPLD this summer | Library Limelight
Looking for a fun way to keep kids reading, moving and learning this summer? Pikes Peak Library District’s Summer Adventure reading program, presented by Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District, gives families a no-cost way to read, create, explore and make the most of summer together. Summer Adventure is designed for all ages, from…
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Check it out: ‘Hybrid’ library model coming to Calhan, other small towns
CALHAN– The Calhan Library is currently open 32 hours a week. Starting this fall, the Pikes Peak Library District plans to more than triple those hours by allowing patrons access when the building isn’t staffed. Library District CEO Teona Shainidze-Krebs explained the hybrid library model and other library facts to a half-dozen people at a…
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Penrose Library to lock parking lot gates when facility is closed for security reasons
It’s been like night and day since a see-through, wrought-iron-type fence went up around Penrose Library in downtown Colorado Springs, says Michael Brantner, chief facilities and securities officer at Pikes Peak Library District. The north side of the district’s flagship library off West Kiowa Street, in particular, has seen a dramatic decrease in security incidents…
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Celebrate National Reading Month: Try a new way to read | Library Limelight
By Amy Gillentine Hey, let’s talk about reading. It’s National Reading Month! Discussion rages on social media: Does listening to audiobooks count as reading? As the experts, Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) is here to say: Yes! All reading counts – books, audiobooks, eBooks, anime, comic books, magazines, and newspapers. It doesn’t matter HOW someone…
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Explore local museums with a PPLD Culture Pass | Library Limelight
By Cindy Skaggs If you’ve ever driven past the Western Museum of Mining and Industry or the Michael Garman Museum & Gallery and thought, “I really should go there someday,” your local library has given you the perfect excuse. The Pikes Peak Library District’s Culture Pass program opens the doors to some of the region’s favorite…
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Lives of Austrian couple who fled WWII, concentration camps, to make new life in Colorado Springs chronicled in new presentation
Leo and Hertha Mohl chose to live in interesting times, sometimes unintentionally and sometimes through their own making. That’s according to Bob Mohl, who will deliver a presentation about the colorful lives of his Austrian parents, who fled Nazi persecution during WWII, immigrated to the U.S. in 1940, and wound up living in Colorado Springs…