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The Winter Reading Challenge returns for everyone, especially those who love a challenge. The Library’s fifth cold-weather reading event for adults runs Jan. 2-Feb. 29.
Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) is a nationally recognized system of public libraries serving a population of more than 650,000 across 2,070 square miles in El Paso County, Colorado. Pikes Peak Library District has resources for children, teens, adults, and seniors.
$2.99 at amazon.com. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The Chronicles of Narnia are a classic of children's literature for a reason, but particularly fitting for our winter books reading list ...
In 1904, a new library on West Pikes Peak Avenue was opened, thanks to a gift from Andrew Carnegie. When Colorado City was annexed to the city of Colorado Springs in 1917, the library board of directors sold its invested rights and interests to the Colorado Springs Public Library for $1, and it became the West End Branch.
In 2007, a study by the Colorado Council on the Arts placed creative industries as the fifth largest sector of the Colorado state budget. [5] In 2009, the Council had to cut a fourth of the state arts budget, and arts organizations in El Paso and Teller counties received $90,400 instead of the $183,490 they had gotten in 2008. [5]
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Pikes Peak Writers held their 2014 conference from April 24–27, 2014. The theme was Write Here, Write Now! Make it Happen! Faculty members included: Agatha, Anthony, Macavity and Emmy winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan, New York Times Bestselling Author Gail Carriger, Campbell Award Nominee & Emmy Award Writer Chuck Wendig and Hugo Award Winning Fantasy Writer Jim C. Hines.
CSLP began in 1987 with ten Minnesota regional library systems that joined together to create a theme, artwork and program ideas for libraries to use for children's programming. [2] It subsequently expanded to libraries throughout all fifty states and Washington D.C. to ensure all libraries can provide a high quality summer reading program.