Book Club Updates: You Spoke and We Listened!
The Colorado State Library’s Book Club Resource would like to thank everyone who participated in our partner library survey and to let you know that we …
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The Book Club is Having una Celebración!
The Colorado State Library’s Book Club Resource is excited to announce the addition of five Spanish language titles to our book club catalog as one …
CHNC Proudly Welcomes The Denver Voice!
This month, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection welcomed the Denver Voice to its online catalog and we could not be more excited! Our users will …
Touring Colorado’s Collections: Greetings from Southwest Colorado!
Today quick messages and family updates are sent by text message, Facebook, Instagram or other social media posts. But before social media and cell phones, …
CHNC News: Holy Cross Trail
For many Coloradans, climbing a fourteener is a rite of passage. There are 53 fourteeners in Colorado but only one had a newspaper named after …
Ready… Set….Go!
Earlier this month the Plains to Peaks Collective went live with its first collection in the Digital Public Library of America. We know that there may …
Plains to Peaks Collective Shares Historic Collections from Colorado and Wyoming with the Digital Public Library of America
The Colorado State Library is happy to announce that historic collections from Colorado and Wyoming are now part of the Digital Public Library of America …
Colorado Reentry Resources (CORR) Mailing List
The Colorado Reentry Resources (CORR) mailing list is a new group available to Colorado library staff interested in promoting successful reentry for citizens returning from …
The 5 Early Literacy Practices: Sing
“Gallina=chicken, puerta=door, ventana=window y pluma=pen” Those are words of a traditional rhyme back in my country. Even though I didn’t know English when I learned …
CHNC News: Golden Historic News is Growing!
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection now includes over 9,500 more pages of the Colorado Transcript! With a shared mission of enhancing access to Golden history …
CHNC News: More Historic News from Bent County!
Thanks to the generous support of our partners, the Las Animas – Bent County Library District and the John W. Rawlings Heritage Center, the Colorado …
CHNC News! School is in Session
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection is going back to school. With the help of the Morgan Library at the Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort …
CHNC News: Would You Work Here?
Many people know that community newspapers provide a wealth of historic information such as birth and wedding announcements, obituaries, general family news, legal notices and …
CHNC News! Historic African American Newspapers Now Available
In a few short years CHNC has grown tremendously and made some exciting changes. We have a new and improved website, reached 1 million pages …
Colorado Historic Newspapers, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
Upping your Engagement – Getting More From the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
Colorado has an interesting and colorful history. Whether you are interested in our mining past, railroad development and growth, livestock activity, agriculture, historic tourism, or …
Partnering with an Institutional Library
Colorado libraries reach their communities in many ways, including partnerships with local organizations and businesses. But has your library considered partnering with one of Colorado’s …
CHNC Reaches Millionth Page Milestone
Growth of Database Causes Great Excitement. New Titles Added – More Counties Represented. DENVER COLORADO. August 13, 2017 — Although careful planning and hard work …
CHNC News: New Titles and New Partners
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection recently added four new titles; the Brush Lariat, the Morgan County Republican, the Louisville Times and the Whitehorn News. These …
Topics in History: Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in the Austrian Empire in what is now Croatia. Tesla was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer …
Topics in History: Dearfield, Colorado
The town of Dearfield, located 30 miles east of Greeley, was established on May 5, 1910 by Oliver Toussaint Jackson, as a self-sufficient African American …
Colorado Historic Newspapers, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion