By Amy Hadden Marsh Sopris Sun Correspondent The Garfield County commissioners (BOCC) met for more than eight hours on Monday, Nov. 13, with only 20 minutes for lunch. The morning […]
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Pornography panic at GCPLD board meeting
The crowd that gathered at the Carbondale Library on Thursday, Sept. 7 was too big for the Calaway Room, and spilled out into the hall. Word was out that Rifle […]
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GCPLD Report: Library board meeting draws a crowd
The June 1 Garfield County Public Libraries District (GCPLD) board meeting in Carbondale attracted more than two dozen members of the public and several had comments. Library board meetings are […]
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GarCo Library board denies book ban appeal
In a special meeting on April 24, the Garfield County library board voted 7-0 to retain three books that a library district resident had challenged earlier in the year, according […]
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Passwords coming to local libraries March 28
Change is coming to Garfield County Libraries on March 28. The change: Library card holders will be assigned a password to facilitate using their cards in some cases. Why does […]
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Recommended Reading: ‘Buttons: Dreams Do Come True’
By Jamie LaRue Garfield County Libraries “Most people don’t remember the day they were born. I remember it all.” So begins the children’s book “Buttons: Dreams Do Come True” by […]
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‘Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars’
By Jamie LaRue Garfield County Libraries I learned to read from comic books. At first, I mostly read DC Comics, mainly Superman. I was the only 6-year-old on my block […]
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Library Trends: A Community Conversation
By Jamie LaRue, Executive Director Garfield County Libraries In 2012, I was invited by the U.S. State Department to give some presentations in Moscow. There was a big annual publisher […]
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Jamie LaRue trae nuevos conocimientos al GCPLD
Traducción por Dolores Duarte Durante la mayor parte de un año, el Distrito de Bibliotecas Públicas del Condado de Garfield (GCPLD) estuvo sin un director ejecutivo oficial. El anterior director […]
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Jamie LaRue brings fresh expertise to GCPLD
For the better part of a year, the Garfield County Public Libraries District (GCPLD) was without a formal executive director. The district’s previous executive director resigned in August 2021, preceded […]