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.

In this month’s newsletter we review and thank you for a very successful 50th anniversary year; we celebrate the close of our NoBo Capital Campaign; we encourage you to become a One Book One Boulder Circle Leader; we promote our library’s wonderful volunteer opportunities; we recommend an illustrator talk in the Canyon Theater this Saturday; we announce a new name for the cafe at Boulder Main; we catch you up on all the library news you may have missed!

In this month’s newsletter we reveal Boulder Public Library’s most popular books of 2024, we encourage you to make a year-end gift to support your library, we welcome a new member to our board of directors, we promote our merch as a great holiday gift for library lovers, we get excited for this year’s Winter Reading Challenge, we invite you to vote on a new name for the cafe at Boulder Main and we catch you up on all the library news you may have missed.

We celebrate 50 years of support for the Boulder Public Library; We summarize what our donors supported this year, and what’s on tap for 2025; We bring you the KGNU interview with Bonnie Garmus, recorded live at our gala; We outline all the promises that our new Library District has delivered this year; We share the story of a gift memorializing a BoulderReads! tutor; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed.

Listen to the Radio Book Club interview recorded on our gala stage, and broadcasted on KGNU on October 24, between Bonnie Garmus and Maeve Conran!

In this month’s newsletter: We celebrate a tremendous 50 Year Gala with Bonnie Garmus, and share photos; We announce that Carnegie Library for Local History has re-opened for walk-ins; We pay tribute to our founder by renaming our planned giving program in her honor; We share the story of a gift memorializing the life of a library lover; We welcome Tina Ottersberg to our foundation’s Board of Directors; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed.