Berthoud Community Library District

Welcome:

• Letter from the CEO
• Hours
• Berthoud Literary Festival: Volunteer Call!
• Digital Navigators: Senior Planet Classes Poll

Family Events:

• Tuesdays: Bouncing Baby Storytime at 10:30AM
• Wednesdays: Terrific Toddler Storytime at 10:30AM
• Fridays: Perky Pre-K Storytime at 10:30AM

• 8/10: Kids' Stuff Exchange from 10:00AM-4:00PM

• 8/12 & 8/26: Musical Moments at 4:00 PM

Adult Events:

• Mondays: Writer's Group from 10:30-11:45AM (No meeting on 8/26)
• Saturdays: Saturday Sketch Hour from 11AM - 12PM
• 8/8: Philosophy Reading & Discussion Group with Philosophy Outreach Program of Colorado (POPCO), University of Colorado, Boulder: “How Free Should Speech Be" at 6PM *Registration Required
• 8/21: Board Game Night at 6:00PM
• 8/22: Yoga with Bella at 10:00AM *Registration Required
• 8/23: Knit & Crochet Drop-in from 1-3PM
• 8/26: Blood Drive at 10:00AM

More:

• Podcast: New Episode!
• Virtual Storytime with Miss Christy
• Contact Us

Congratulations to everyone who participated in our Summer Learning Initiative this

year! Hundreds of you signed up, and we’re so glad we were able to meet your reading

and learning needs this summer. If you’ve won a prize, we’ll contact you in the next

couple of weeks.

Tickets for our upcoming Berthoud Literary Festival go on sale mid-month. To make

sure that the Festival is accessible to all kinds of people, some of the events are free,

some require registration, and some require tickets. Watch our social media,

newsletters, and posters in the Library so you know when to purchase those tickets.

Happy end of summer to all of you,

Amie P.

Library CEO

We have extended our Browsing Hours on Wednesday and Thursday!

We are now open for browsing Monday, Tuesday, and Friday from 10AM - 6PM. Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10AM - 8PM, and Saturday we are open from 10AM - 4PM. We are no longer closed for lunch on Saturdays (yippee!).

Curbside hours remain constant every day, Monday through Saturday, from 10AM until 5PM. Please email us at curbside.bcld@gmail.com or give us a call and let us know what we can gather for you. We'll arrange a time to pick up for contactless delivery.

Have you heard we’re doing a Literary Festival this September? Want to be on the

inside track? Volunteer!

Made in Colorado: a Berthoud Literary Festival is happening the third weekend of

September, the 20th through 22nd .

We’re looking for people to help facilitate author visits, lead book discussions, assist at

keynote events, and more. If you’re interested, click the link below to see brief

descriptions of the different volunteer positions we’re looking to fill. Then, sign up for

whichever ones suit you best!

More information about our Literary Festival, including ticket and registration

information, will be available in August. Please stay tuned.

Literary Festival Volunteer Link

One of our Digital Navigators is ready to teach Senior Planet classes! We'll start hosting them here at Berthoud Community Library, but first we want to know which of these appeal to you most:

• Intro to Managing Your Privacy
• Smartphones at a Glance
• Android Essentials
• Computer Essentials

We'll start with the topic that gets the most votes online and at the library.

Join us for Bouncing Baby Storytime on Tuesdays at 10:30AM. This story time is tailored to babies under two. Short books, bounces, songs, finger and foot play rhymes will be fun for babies and their grown-ups alike!

Join us on Tuesdays at 10:30AM for Terrific Toddler Storytime. Let your toddler move and wiggle at this fast-paced story time with books to grow on, as well as plenty of singing and dancing!

Join us on Fridays at 10:30AM for Perky Pre-K Storytime. We will be reading and interacting with longer stories in this group, but don’t worry we will still have songs and movement. We will wrap up with a craft.

Every other Monday!

Let's play at the library! Musical Moments is especially designed for preschool children. Stop by every other Monday at 4PM to learn, play, and sing at the Berthoud Community Library.

August's Musical Moments dates are the 12th & 26th.

Kids' Stuff Exchange on August 10th from 10AM-4PM!

Bonus: We will be offering weeded kids materials from the Library too!

Join us as we free-write, critique, and hone our craft together.

All genres of writing welcome. We meet Mondays from 10:30AM to 11:45AM.

There will be no Writer's Group on August 26th.

Join us for Saturday Sketch Hour each Saturday from 11AM-12PM! This is an hour for artists of any age and skill level to come and practice, and to learn from each other. Paper and pencils will be provided, however, if you have your own sketching supplies feel free to bring them. (Activity is drawing-specific!)

We're often told that censoring opinions is a bad thing. It is easy to imagine, however, certain opinions that we wouldn't mind being censored. Consider, for example, Holocaust denial. Do we even have reason to permit people to publicly engage in Holocaust denialism?

Nishi Shah seems to think so. In his essay "Why Academic Freedom Matters" he argues that censoring Holocaust denialism undercuts our justification for censoring the opinion in the first. If we censored it, we would deprive ourselves of opportunities in the future to have our reasons for censoring Holocaust denialism challenged.

Join us on August 8 as we take up the important questions of what free speech is, what grounds the most plausible defense of free speech, and why free speech is important!

Register for this event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-reading-discussion-group-at-berthoud-community-library-tickets-874097367757

For more information and reading guide: https://sites.google.com/view/berthoud-philosophy/home

Join us for Board Game Night on August 21st from 6-7:30PM. Bring your own game or use one of ours!

Join us for a free yoga class on July 24th from 4:30-5:30PM! Bella has practiced yoga for years and is excited to begin teaching after receiving her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in May.

This class will be a Power Vinyasa. All levels are welcome. Bring your own mat and props.

Registration is required. Call (970)532-2757 to register.

Knit & Crochet Drop-in will meet this Friday the 23rd of August from 1-3PM.

This is not a class, just a place for fellow crafters to meet and knit/crochet together. This is a drop-in event.

Vitalant will be hosting a Blood Drive at the Berthoud Community LIbrary from 10AM to 2PM on Monday, August 26th.

Please register for the blood drive by clicking here.

To register:

1. Once you have opened the Vitalant website, click "Make Appointment Now" or "Make My Appointment"

2. Enter the zip code "80537"

3. Click the icon next to "Filters"

4. Under "Select Date Range", click August 26th

5. Locate the Berthoud Community Library location

6. Click the location and select what time you want to come in

7. Follow steps from there

This podcast is not just about library 'stuff', but about the wonderful community we live in. Straight from our CEO, Amie!

We're here for you, to support you, to inform you, and to care for you the best way we know how.

Most Recent Episode:

Season 5 – Episode 1: Knowing Our Roots: Berthoud History

View all of Miss Christy's virtual story times from the past years. Watch the ones you missed or re-watch your favorites over and over again.

Click here to view.

Please keep checking our website, our Facebook page, and/or our Instagram page throughout the month to see the events we are hosting and any updates we may have!

Click here to visit our website.

Click here to visit our Facebook.

Click here to visit our Instragram.