Celebrate Library Giving Day with a story stroll, throughout Downtown Fort Collins. Visit your favorite local businesses and read Nikki Giovanni's "A Library" all to support Poudre Libraries!
We're shining a light on the Month of the Young Child with an interactive coloring banner for the young and the young-at-heart. Add your mark to the community cityscape coloring banner on your next visit to Harmony, and celebrate the kids in our community!
El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), commonly known as Día, is a celebration of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30. Celebrate children and books with a Story Stroll in the children's area. See the story unfold in front of you as you make your way through the library. This is a fun, interactive, family-friendly activity.
Explore stories through talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing! Storytime supports reading readiness while celebrating all people.
This storytime is for children ages birth to 5 and their caregivers.
¡Explora historias a través de la conversación, el canto, la lectura, la escritura y el juego! La hora del cuento favorece el aprendizaje de la lectura mientras celebra a todas las personas.
Esta hora del cuento es para niños desde recién nacidos hasta los 5 años y sus cuidadores.
A STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, Math) program for you and your little ones ages 3-6! Program may include cool step-by-step science projects, color theory, experiments, crafts, and more. Wear clothes that can get messy. Registration required.
Explore stories through talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing! Storytime supports reading readiness while celebrating all people.
This storytime is for children ages birth to 5 and their caregivers.
¡Explora historias a través de la conversación, el canto, la lectura, la escritura y el juego! La hora del cuento favorece el aprendizaje de la lectura mientras celebra a todas las personas.
Esta hora del cuento es para niños desde recién nacidos hasta los 5 años y sus cuidadores.
Do you want to move Fort Collins and northern Colorado forward? Join a movement for civic unity, community strength, and hope. Help build a stronger Fort Collins together. Registration required.
Join renowned community engagement speaker Rich Harwood, founder of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation. This event aims to engage active citizens and community leaders to move past division and catalyze community action.
Drop in to receive one-on-one family history research and genealogy assistance from Larimer County Genealogical Society volunteers. No registration required.
Exercise your freedom to read and pick up a free book by joining our book club featuring banned and challenged books.
This month we will be reading Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout. This bestselling memoir in verse is a companion to Speak, Anderson's award winning novel about a teenager who struggles to find her voice after being sexually assaulted. Shout has received both multiple starred reviews and multiple challenges since it's publication in 2019.
Registration required. For high school students and adults.
Speak, listen, connect, and learn. Conversations build community at Old Town Library. “Conversations in English” offers a friendly, informal setting for English language learners to practice their English and connect with others. A volunteer facilitator, who is a native-English speaker, guides conversations on relevant, every day topics like family, work, school, sports, and daily life. Participants can also suggest topics to discuss. For adults. All levels of experience and ability are welcome. Registered participants will receive a link to the Zoom meeting by email.
Connect with stories, music and movement in ways that help lower stress, release energy, promote well-being and strengthen mind and body.Designed for kids and their caregivers to enjoy together. All ages welcome!
Connect with stories, music and movement in ways that help lower stress, release energy, promote well-being and strengthen mind and body.Designed for kids and their caregivers to enjoy together. All ages welcome!
Outreach Fort Collins hosts office hours where you can drop in for consultation and resources related to housing, food, healthcare, and other critical issues.
Outreach Fort Collins is a street-based outreach program to maintain our downtown as a safe and welcoming place while connecting our community’s most vulnerable to the services and supportive networks they need. It is a professionally staffed, on-the-street team who will build relationships with community members, service providers, businesses and city services as a means to address and deescalate disruptive behaviors downtown.
A resource navigator from the Murphy Center can help people experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing homelessness to:
Complete a Murphy Center intake.
Prepare for employment, including resume building, interview preparation, job search, and acquiring necessary work clothes and equipment.
Order a new or replacement in-state of out-of-state identification.
Apply for Medicaid, SNAP (also known as food stamps), AND (Aid to Needy Disabled), OAP (Old Age Pension), or TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families).
Connect you to local resources for case management, employment services, housing navigation, medical referrals, and other needs.
Larimer County Community Justice Alternatives - Check in with your case manager from Larimer County Community Justice Alternatives, work with Competency Services, Bridges or check in with pre-trial services or MHIPS. Come to Old Town Library Fridays, 2-4pm in Study Room D.
Featuring The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
For students in grades 4,5 and 6 with an adult companion (parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, neighbor, mentor). Enjoy making new friends, discussing the book, and engaging in hands on activities. A light dinner will be provided.
Registration is limited and starts March 1. Each registered pair will receive a free copy of the book. Registrants will be notified when their books is available for pickup at the Council Tree Library.
Eligible, lawful permanent residents will meet with an attorney from Alianza NORCO Immigration Legal Services to prepare the application for US citizenship and answer questions. To register, please contact Alianza NORCO at 970-703-3945.
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Los residentes permanentes legales elegibles se reunirán con un abogado de los Servicios Legales de Inmigración de Alianza NORCO para preparar la solicitud de ciudadanía estadounidense y responder preguntas. Para registrarse, contacte a Alianza NORCO al 970-703-3945.
Celebrate Dia de los Ninos with the Libraries at Club Tico!
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What Library services are offered through Evie?
When you visit
Evie, you can do almost everything you could do at one of our branch
libraries. You can check materials out, you can return materials from
any branch, you can get a library card. We can help you put materials on
hold or check the status of your holds, but we don’t deliver holds –
you will have to pick those up at one of the branches.
You can
also print, use our WiFi, or check out a Chromebook kit. We will often
have storytimes or an activity or craft. And we are always happy to help
you find your next great read. We hope to see you soon!
Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias have a ripple effect on families, particularly those in the “sandwich generation.” Caring for parents or older family members with dementia, while juggling our own children, grandchildren, careers, and other relationships can be overwhelming. This monthly support group provides time to come together in person and virtually to release stress, share experiences, give and receive encouragement, and feel understood. Hosted by the Alzheimer's Association. Join online or in person. No registration required. If you would like to join online, click this link at the start of the program:
Explore nature, breath, and life through dance with students from Colorado State University's dance program. No registration needed, but we will adhere to room capacity limit maximum of 85 people.
This event is interactive and includes a dance performance, craft-making,
and creative movement activities.
Fort Collins Connexion will host a table at the Harmony Library, offering a chance for people to sign up for internet services in person or visit briefly with one of their sales representatives.
Outreach Fort Collins hosts office hours where you can drop in for consultation and resources related to housing, food, healthcare, and other critical issues.
Outreach Fort Collins is a street-based outreach program to maintain our downtown as a safe and welcoming place while connecting our community’s most vulnerable to the services and supportive networks they need. It is a professionally staffed, on-the-street team who will build relationships with community members, service providers, businesses and city services as a means to address and deescalate disruptive behaviors downtown.
