We appreciate our library’s exceptional staff; We celebrate a wildly fun and successful gala; We mark the passing of our founder, Doris Hass; We invite you to participate in DAF day; We toast Books and Brews; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed

In this month’s newsletter: We consider the case for a little flash; We announce more tickets just released for our Sept. 18 Boulder Library Gala; We anticipate next Tuesday’s Canyon Theater author talk with David Baron; We celebrate the reasons Joel Koenig gives monthly; We promote the Jaipur Literature Festival, Sept. 13-14; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed

We remember Colorado Poet Laureate and Boulder library patron Andrea Gibson; We thank our donors for a successful Summer of Support campaign; We promote the upcoming Boulder Library Gala; We announce two new board members and a new foundation staff member; We preview an upcoming author talk we’re sponsoring with David Baron; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed

We report on our foundation’s recent adventure in San Diego; We announce our Summer of Support campaign; We promote the Boulder Library Gala; We celebrate the NoBo Library’s playground completion; We anticipate a new DIY Studio coming to Studio24 in NoBo; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed.

We celebrate the value of libraries in these trying times; We announce that individual tickets to our gala are now on sale; We highlight a local author couple who have put our foundation in their will; We encourage you to consider a future legacy gift; We anticipate the kickoff of Summer of Discovery; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed

We give thanks for a successful Spring Forward matching gift campaign; We celebrate the success of an author talk pilot program; We encourage you to sponsor a gala table before they sell out; We anticipate more than 600 for this year’s OBOB author talk; We promote the library’s Bilingual Play Festival and Studio24 Electronics Studio; We pay tribute to a legendary library appreciator; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed

The Boulder Library Foundation Board of Directors recently approved 11 grants totaling $393,600 to support literacy, outreach, oral history, archival acquisitions, children’s musical performances and makers in residence at Boulder Public Library. The grants were funded through the generous support of the foundation’s annual donors as well as payouts from three endowments and a designated fund.

We announce our Spring Forward matching gift campaign; We encourage you to sponsor a gala table before they sell out; We celebrate a larger venue for this year’s OBOB author talk; We invite you to celebrate diversity at a multicultural celebration; We promote a Canyon Theater author talk with Stephen Graham Jones; We show solidarity with a fire fund grant to the Library Foundation of LA; We search for our first Director of Annual Giving; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed.

The Boulder Library Foundation has an immediate opening for its first-ever Director of Annual Giving to be responsible for developing, implementing, and cultivating the Library Foundation’s annual giving program in accordance with the Library Foundation’s fundraising plan, including a growing annual fund program.