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LIBRARY NEWS COLORADO'S SPECIAL BOOKS FOR HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES HISTORIC NEWSPAPER THE WINTER HOLIDAYS AT THE LIBRARY COLLECTION ONLINE !iI Robert Sabuda's exquisite pop- Children eager for the holiday up books are eagerly season can get a head start on The Colorado Digitization Pro- awaited at the awaited each year. n g gram is dedicated to making Winter' Tale is the new annual Holiday the special resources classic collectible for this Crafts Workshop Cill of archives,histori- on December 10 cal societies,librar IN— : i season.Join a bear,a moose,and an owl in the winter forest. from 10:00 a and museums v p��q Cricket at the Manger by Edith Fine 11:00 AM in the 'IN . 4101111 available to the ii— is a Christmas story featuring a Library meeting public.At its website — grouchy cricket who learns that the room. Children ages 6-12 are invited (www.cdpheritage.org),you can view noises that awakened him come to make decorations they can take Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collec- from the baby waiting to hear his home.Volunteers and staff will help tion—which includes newspapers from song. the children with their projects. Space the years 1859 to 1923—and read about OS The Legend of Saint Nicholas is coin is limited so pre-registration is required. historic events as seen through the eyes plemented by the gilded artwork For further information,please call the of contemporaries. of Demi who wrote this story of Youth Services Desk at 303.335.4821. These primary source articles may the figure who is associated with A special"Polar Express" storytime be used for research,teaching,or just Christmas and Santa Claus. will be held on Tuesday,December 20 for enjoyment. If your interest is his- W On My Own Holiday series in at 7:00 PM All ages are welcome and hot tory,you may want to look up historic dudes Chinese New Year by Judith chocolate will be served. events, such as the Sand Creek Massa Jango Cohen who describes the Note:Preschool and toddler story- cre,to understand them as the residents celebration and customs for the times will not be held December 27-29. of the Colorado Territory did.Read beginning reader. the Daily Mining journal and you will get !I Three Kings Day:A Celebration of HAVE You NOTICED . the flavor of life as a miner in Gilpin Christmastime by Diane Hoyt Gold- County.A casual reader may enjoy smith offers a photo essay of 10- ...how great the VHS •Ni ik looking at the price of merchandise in movies in the adults' year-old Veronica and her Puerto . the 19th century—a car offered for$865 collection are looking Rican community in New York as these days?Library a 5-room,brick house in Boulder Y Y it celebrates Epiphany. staff and volunteers / selling for$750.There are nostalgic !iI Caralyn Buchner has written a • notices of box suppers and local news Y spent many hours sequel to Snowmen at Night featuring over the summer scraping off labels, about who is vacationing where. Ge Snowmen at Christmas partying in the cleaning or replacing cases,and generat- nealogists tracing Colorado ancestors center of town with food,dancing, ing new cover inserts for this collection of can research family names in articles and presents. 2200+items.Cleanup of nearly 1700 VHS and obituaries.These newspapers of- !ii Lee Bennett Hopkins has collected items in the children's collection is now in fer wonderful insight into the lives of poems, fascinating facts,and birth- progress.The Library's movie collection Colorado residents at the turn of the days for each month of the year in on VHS is more extensive than the DVD 20th century. collection—and more durable,too.—so his Days to Celebrate. checkout a movie on tape! LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION WEBCAM NOW ONLINE • In addition to the photos being posted to the Library's Web site,library construction progress can now be viewed online via a Webcam.These images are updated every two minutes between 7:00 AM and 5:00 PM, " Monday through Friday.Weekly time lapse video is also available.Access the photos or Webcam from the 44.0 Library homepage @ www.ci.louisville.co.us/library. December 2005 - January 2006 5