What’s New at PPLD!

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.

Click here to visit Dream City 2020

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!

• When: Friday, July 25 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
• Where: Tri-Lakes YMCA (outside fields)

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.

• Who: All ages are welcome
• When: Saturday, July 19 at 10:30 a.m. and Saturday, August 16 at 10:30 a.m.
• Where: Palmer Lake Branch, 66 Lower Glenway

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

• Service Area: Falcon and surroundings
• Building Size: approximately 6,000 square feet
• Project Budget: $1,613,200 2008
• Fundraising Goal: $574,000 (36% of total)
• Land: Donated by the Pieper Family and Farmers State Bank
• Collection on Site: 14,000 items
• Additional Amenities: Farmers State Bank Community Meeting Room, wireless technology, teen area, drive-up book drop, study rooms, exhibit space, fireside reading area, access to the District’s 1.2 million collection items, and more!

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.

UCCS Theatreworks, in collaboration with PPLD’s All Pikes Peak Reads 2008, proudly presents:

THE GRAPES OF WRATH
by John Steinbeck
adapted by Frank Galati

September 25 - October 19

Headed west to the promised land of California, the Joad family finds greed, lust, fire, rain, and murderous rage. Yet, on they go. This is the classic story of ordinary people struggling to keep their humanity in the face of massive economic desperation. It’s an essential American epic, a collective life memory, even more moving in the theater than on the page.

Click here to purchase tickets for this event.

Do you think you have what it takes to be the champ? This is your last chance during PPLD’s Summer Tour to show us your mad skills at DDR and Guitar Hero competitions.

Prizes include:

• Zen V Plus photo/video/radio
• $25 Best Buy card
• Applebees coupon for each contestant

When: Wednesday, July 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Where: Old Colorado City Branch, 2418 W Pikes Peak Ave.

Refreshments will be provided. Contact the Old Colorado City Branch if you have questions.

See the world from your own backyard!

The World Music Series at Pikes Peak Library District is opening exciting new cultural windows for the residents of the Pikes Peak region.

Caji & Salomé

Friday, July 18, 7 p.m.

This duo combines passion for acoustic music with fascination for Brazilian sounds and grooves. Caji & Salomé’s repertoire includes not only Brazilian music (including songs by such composers as Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Dorival Caymmi and Gilberto Gil) but also a mix of songs from Portugal, Cuba, South America, Cabo Verde, and France.

• Caji & Salomé on YouTube
• Caji & Salomé’s MySpace

Presented by Pikes Peak Library District in partnership with Colorado College and the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado.

Vagabond Opera

Saturday, August 9, 7 p.m.

Weaving elements of Kurt Weil, Duke Ellington and Edith Piaf with absurdist flair, theatrics and an old world mood, Vagabond Opera presents the new wave of opera–lusty voices singing in 11 languages and presenting a cabaret of rich musical phrasing, sparkling lyrics and indomitable stage presence, all played with exuberance, skill and a gritty Vagabond edge. This is Opera liberated and reinvented for everyone.

General Information

All 2008 World Music Series concerts are held at the following venue:

Armstrong Quad, CC Campus
Bad weather venue:
Armstrong Theater
14 E. Cache La Poudre St.

TICKET & PARKING INFO: These concerts are FREE and no tickets are required. Armstrong Quad is near the corner of Cascade Ave. and Cache La Poudre St. Nearby parking lots are located off Uintah Street and Cache La Poudre Street.

ABOUT THE WORLD MUSIC SERIES: The World Music Series features visual and performing artists from around the world, offering library patrons and the community as a whole the opportunity to experience the sights and sounds of other cultures. The series is in its 4th year, having engaged thousands with world-class performances and exhibitions.

PARTNERSHIPS: The 2008 series is presented in partnership with Colorado College, KRCC, and the CC Summer Music Festival.