Carnegie endowment, 2025’s most popular titles, book club competition & more

$15K matching challenge for CO Gives Day, Gunbarrel Library excitement, a new series of coffee and conversations & more

Early Giving is Open for Colorado Gives Day!

We celebrate the new Gunbarrel Library’s grand opening; We launch a new “Check It Out” quarterly coffee series; We invite you to the inaugural La Camera Concert Series; We take you on a ride with the library’s Book Bike; We announce a grant from Carnegie, for Carnegie; We catch you up on all the library news you may have missed

Your new Gunbarrel Library is finally here! Also tomorrow, tune in to KGNU 88.5 at 9am and listen to the recording of Radio Book Club’s live on-stage interview at our recent gala with author Shelby Van Pelt.

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