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Youth Services
Our youth department offers activities for children from birth to young adult including story time, crafting, monthly programming, summer learning programs, and more! Enjoy access to child friendly, internet-filtered computers, video games, board games and puzzles, and fun play spaces.
Come in and peruse our children's books and DVDs, or just come in to relax and play! Located on the upper floor of the library.
Events and Activities Calendar
Numerous studies estimate that as many as one in five children have difficulties learning to read. Reading has been associated as an early indicator of academic success. Public formal education does not typically start until ages 5-6. Before then, parents and caregivers are the first education providers during the 0-5 early critical years. The 1000 Books Before Kindergarten challenge is a simple (read a book, any book to your child, with the goal of reading 1,000 before kindergarten) and very manageable endeavor.
Sign up on the Children's Floor!
The Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines describe the trajectory of children’s learning and development from birth to 8 years old in Colorado. They include a broad description of children’s growth to ensure a holistic approach to creating positive early childhood environments.
Searching for books with a corresponding Renaissance Accelerated Reader 360® quiz is easy with Accelerated Reader Bookfinder®. Students, teachers, parents, and librarians can search in English or Spanish using criteria such as ATOS book level or a Lexile™ measure, interest level, title, author, fiction/nonfiction, subject, award-winners, state lists, CCSS Exemplars, and more.
The mission of Postpartum Support International is to promote awareness, prevention and treatment of mental health issues related to childbearing in every country worldwide.
It is the vision of PSI that every woman and family worldwide will have access to information, social support, and informed professional care to deal with mental health issues related to childbearing. PSI promotes this vision through advocacy and collaboration, and by educating and training the professional community and the public.
Our Programs
Storytime and Craft
Join us for Storytime and Craft every Tuesday and Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
Each storytime is unique and has its own theme and craft for all ages and abilities. We sing songs and rhymes along with finger plays to create memos and build vocabulary. All activities build early reading skills necessary for your child to be prepared for Kindergarten.
Babies On Our Knees (B.O.O.K.)
Join us every Monday at 10:30 am for Babies on Our
Knees: a short storytime designed for babies 0-24 months old.
We sing songs and rhymes to build vocabulary, perform fingerplays to create memories, and provide socialization with other young children and their caregivers.
Lego Club
Join us on the children’s floor for a fun-filled activity for all ages! Build exciting new things out of Legos from our huge collection of bricks!
Every 1st Friday of the month at 3 pm.
Breakout Friday
Breakout Friday consists of a combination of physical and digital puzzle elements that must be solved in a set amount of time. Players of all ages are challenged to open the locked Breakout EDU box using critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
Registration Required. Click on the image below to register.
Every 2nd Friday of the month at 3 pm.
Creative Crafting
Join us on the Children’s floor for a crafting activity's open to all ages! Every third Friday, we will do a new and fun craft!
Registration Required.
Every 3rd Friday of the month at 3 pm. Click on the image below to register.