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Check Out Lafayette Public Library Hula Video

Published by Sharon on July 31, 2009 in General and Public Libraries. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Posted on behalf of Betsy Stroomer, Lafayette (CO) Public Library:

Each year, we try to plan something a little bit outrageous to thank our community for its participation in our summer reading program.

In keeping with this summer’s creativity theme, our staff pledged to perform a hula at our grand finale program if our readers met or exceed our reading goal of 15,000 hours of reading.  About 10 of us studied hula with a teacher from Boulder’s Halau Hula O Na Mauna Pohaku http://www.maunapohaku.org/ (Hula School of the Rockies) and practiced really hard!

And as it turned out,  we had a lot to celebrate!  3,131 members of our community of about 25,000 read with us (including 300+ adults and 500+ teens) and as of early this week, our readers had reported over 26,000 hours of reading.

About 200 people came to see us make good on our pledge Tuesday night.
We had a blast! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iozgeSw9Jxo

Fun With CLEL Storytimes Grant

Published by Michelle on April 13, 2009 in Children's Services, General and Public Libraries. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL), has expanded the Every Child Ready to Read program to 10 more public libraries in Colorado. The program provides training and materials in early literacy skills to library staff at medium and small public libraries in Colorado. The 10 libraries selected for the program will receive materials, training and mentoring to provide brain-research based story time programs and activities to their communities.

Below, CSL staff is having fun with with some of the Storytimes Grant materials. From left to right: Lisa Boyd, Michelle Gebhart, Melissa Carlson.

Storytimes Grant Materials
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Durango Days 2008!

Published by Sharon on August 28, 2008 in Continuing Education, Southwest and conferences. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Join Us In Beautiful Durango!
Durango Days is a 2-day CAL Continuing Education event at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, on September 18-19. The program schedule is great. Check it out.  Register now at www.cal-webs.org.

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