Come cheer on our contestants as they battle it out for bragging rights and prizes this Saturday at PPLD’s annual Battle of the Bands. Hear live music from some of the area’s most talented young musicians in an outdoor venue downtown.
You’re invited to celebrate a summer of reading at PPLD’s Summer Reading Party! There’ll be games, crafts, stories, activities, and more! In fact, yours truly will be hanging out at the bug exhibit. Come visit and we’ll overcome our aversion to creepy crawlies together.
See you there!
What could be more fun than a fish’s birthday party?
The Monument Branch is celebrating when their fish, “Dewey”, turns one year old, and YOU are invited to the party!
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Imagine a new approach to charting our community’s future. Imagine people of every walk of life getting together to discuss what we want our community to be like in the year 2020.
And imagine children and people just like you leading the way.
The Gazette, Leadership Pikes Peak, Pikes Peak Library District and COPPeR (Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region) have come together to invite you to join in this landmark visioning project. Your ideas about our future as a region are just as important as anyone else’s, and together we can inspire, educate and mobilize this community to create a better place for us all to live, work and play.
The Monument, Briargate, and Palmer Lake branches are hosting their Summer Reading Party at the Tri-Lakes YMCA in Monument. Don’t miss this amazing party that features live tarantulas, Air Force Academy falcons, Mountainaire reptiles, face painting, a moon bounce, tons of games and free food and drink!
Did you live through the Dust Bowl and/or the Great Depression during the 1930s? Pikes Peak Library District is looking for memorabilia or letters depicting or describing that era to complement our upcoming All Pikes Peak Reads (APPR) book selections for 2008, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan.
If you have items you would be willing to share for the months of September and October, please contact your neighborhood Library by August 15 to arrange for a display.
To display in September at East Library, call 531-6333, x1304; to schedule a display in October at Penrose Library, call 531-6333, x2303.
Children are invited to practice reading and build fluency by reading to Jax, the Newfoundland dog, at Palmer Lake Branch.
For more information, please call the Palmer Lake Branch at 481-2587.
We’re expanding Library services in your community!
Check out our NEW High Prairie Branch Library website! Find out information about the project, concept drawings, and how to help.
QUICK FACTS ABOUT HIGH PRAIRIE BRANCH LIBRARY
PPLD is pleased to offer Tell Me More, an online foreign language learning program. Tell Me More offers online foreign language courses for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch.
Tell Me More is only available outside of Library facilities, for example from your home or office. You also will need a PPLD library card to use this service. You can find Tell Me More in Electronic Reference under “Languages”.
Note: In order to use Tell Me More, you will need to set up your own account. You will also need access to a computer with Flash, speakers, and a microphone. This program is only compatable on Windows machines with IE 5 or higher and all pop-up blockers disabled.
PPLD is proud to present our most recent feature on ppld.org: 360 Search!
360 Search is a tool that allows you to search multiple reference resources at the same time. By “reference resources”, we are referring to our Electronic Reference databases as well as our Catalog. So rather than search our databases and Catalog separately for information you are looking for or researching, you can use this tool to search them all at the same time.
360 Search is only available to PPLD cardholders from home. However, it is available to anyone at all our Library facilities.
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