Berthoud Community Library District

Welcome:

• Letter from the CEO
• Hours

Family Events:

• W, F: Sunshine Storytime at 10:30AM
• 2/1: Tinker Tots (Gravity & Motion) at 4PM
• 2/12 & 2/26: Musical Moments at 4PM
• 2/24: Kids Yoga at 10:30AM

Teen Events:

• 2/15: Construct & Concoct (Vision Boards) Drop-In from 4-5PM

Adult Events:

• Every Monday: Writer's Group from 10:30-11:45AM
• Saturday Sketch Hour from 11AM-12PM
• 2/1: Foothills Audubon Bird Club Meeting at 6PM
• 2/16: Food for Thoughts Breakfast “How to be a Good Neighbor" at 8AM
• 2/23: Knit & Crochet Drop-In from 1-3PM
• 2/28: Book Club at 1:30PM & 6:30PM

• 2/29: Get it Together Series -Living Better with Critical Thinking Led by POPCO, University of Boulder from 6:00-7:30 p.m.

More:

• Podcast
• Virtual Storytime with Miss Christy
• Contact Us

If you thought January at the library was busy, you were right. Our goal is to make sure that February is busier. And it’s a Leap Year, so we’ve got an extra day to make that happen!

Our class and event calendar is packed. You can find all the usual suspects—storytime, writers group, book club, Tinker Tots, Food for Thoughts, Construct and Concoct, sketching hour. You can find some new or special events as well, including Kids Yoga, a presentation from the Foothills Audubon Society, an evening with the Philosophy Outreach Program of Colorado covering critical thinking and being realistic, plus more. We expect to see lots of you at classes and events this coming month. Let’s fill every event.

Just a reminder for all of you: if an event has “registration required” in the description, we need you to register. We’re serving about 15,000 people out of our little building, so we can’t pretend we have

unlimited amounts of space for everyone. If you have registered for an event but can’t attend, please let us know so that we can let others on the wait list take your spot. Thank you in advance for your help.

See you soon,

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.

Join us for Sunshine Storytime Wednesdays & Fridays at 10:30AM.

This month, Tinker Tots we will be using balls & bean bags to discover the force of gravity.

This class will be on the 1st of February at 4PM.

Call 970-532-2757 to register.

Now 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.

February's Musical Moments dates are the 12th and 26th.

Kids ages 7-12 are invited to Yoga with Miss Christy on February 24th at 10:30AM. There will be games and songs!

Call 970-532-2757 to register.

Construct & Concoct is a drop-in craft event for tweens & teens. This month we will be making vision boards. Good intentions and resolutions are all well and good, but a vision board gives you something solid to see each day. Keep your goals in front of you and you will achieve them!

Drop-in from 4-5PM on Thursday, February 15th.

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.

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!)

Tonight (2/1) at 6PM!

This month's Audubon Bird Club Meeting features Nicholas Parker who will tell us about the White-tailed Ptarmigan in Colorado.

Join us for a locally-sourced breakfast on February 16th at 8AM as we discuss topics important to our community. This month will be discussing “How to be a Good Neighbor”.

Call 970-532-2757 to register.

Join us this month on the 28th at 1:30PM & 6:30PM to discuss Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

Winter-Spring 2024 Book Club List:

Wednesday 1/24/24: Carnegie's Maid, by Marie Benedict

Wednesday 2/28/24: Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt

Wednesday 3/27/24: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, by Kathleen Rooney

Wednesday 4/24/24: The Paris Library, by Janet Skeslian Charles

Wednesday 5/22/24: Go As a River, by Shelley Read

Knit & Crochet Drop-in will meet on Friday the 23rd of February from 1-3PM instead of 1-4PM now.

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

Join us and POPCO, CU Boulder's Philosophy Outreach Program on February 29th at 6PM for the third event in our "Get it Together" series and learn how to live better with critical thinking. Call 970-532-2757 to register.

Logic-based therapy is a philosophy-inspired therapy designed to change patterns of thought that are harmful to mental health by identifying and refuting the fallacious reasoning that underlies these thoughts. Our instructors are prepared to deliver lessons on managing harmful patterns of thought such as pessimism, perfectionism, and approval seeking.

Living Better with Critical Thinking is supervised by a Colorado University Boulder faculty member certified in logic-based therapy. This program is not meant to provide therapy or replace treatment from a licensed provider.

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 4 – Episode 9: Helping People Be at Home: Berthoud Habitat for Humanity.

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!

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