Pikes Peak Library District’s annual Adult Reading Program runs from January 9 - March 5! This year’s theme is Novel Destinations and is open to anyone age 18 and older with a PPLD library card. Novel Destinations runs through March 5 and adults can read any eight books of their choice. Books on CD, audiocassette, audiobook players, eBooks, and eAudiobooks count, too!

You can sign up now by clicking here!

Reading logs are available by clicking here or at any PPLD library, but feel free to keep track of the books you’ve read using any method you choose.

After you read your first four books, visit your nearest library to pick up your first prize. The program has great prizes this year from Shops at Briargate, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Louie’s Pizza, The Colorado Springs Flea Market, Chick-fil-A, and XS Threadz. Read four more books before March 5 and visit the library again for your second prize. And if you read eight books by the March 5 deadline, you’ll be entered for the grand prize drawing of a new Kindle eReader!

It's that time again. Taxes are due on April 17. Lucky for you PPLD has all the information you need to file on time. Visit our Tax Information page for

• Colorado Tax Information
• Federal Tax Information
• State Tax Forms
• Tax Websites

Good luck and happy filing!

PPLD knows how important early literacy is to families and the community. That’s why PPLD’s Children’s Department has created the Countdown to Kindergarten Carnival, an early literacy program designed to get families interacting with one another in ways that are both fun and effective in improving early literacy skills.

Six Carnivals at multiple library locations in early 2012 (see schedule below) will teach parents and caregivers five simple but powerful practices they can use to help young children get ready to read. These five practices are incorporated into Every Child Ready to Read workshops and can easily be integrated into everyday activities to help children learn early literacy skills. The five early literacy practices are talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing.

Countdown to Kindergarten Carnival is free and open to parents, grandparents, childcare providers, preschool teachers, other caregivers, and their children. There are no reservations required for these drop-in programs:

• Sat., Jan. 14 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Fountain Library
• Sat., Jan. 28 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Penrose Library
• Sat., Feb. 11 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. – High Prairie Library
• Sat., Feb. 25 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Rockrimmon Library
• Sat., March 24 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. – East Library
• Sat., March 31 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Sand Creek Library