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Community Tuesday: Free USB Drives!

Free USB Drives

Have you got your photos and stories all ready to share on the Creating Your Community website? Well today is your lucky day! For the first five people that create a community or contribute to an existing community, we will send you a FREE 2GB USB Drive!

All you have to do is email me (Jamie) with a link to your content and your snail mail address at jseemill@denverlibrary.org.

Community Tuesday: Cinco de Mayo in the Park

Community Tuesday: Cinco de Mayo in the Park

Cinco de Mayo just passed It was a beautiful weekend for a celebration.

Community Tuesday: Share your garden

Garden harvest to look forward to!

It's beautiful out! Put your green thumbs in some soil and then share your photos. The Denver's Gardens & Urban Farms community would love to see them and hear your stories.

Community Tuesday: Say I Do!

Mims Washington Wedding

This week just say "I Do" with the Zion Baptist Church. This community celebrates the marriages and anniversaries of the members of the church both past and present. Check it out and feel the love!

Community Tuesday: Things are warming up!

Cheesman Park Pavilion

It seems like things are starting to warm up again! Why not have a picnic at Cheesman Park and tell us about it? We have a new community dedicated to Cheesman Park on the Creating Your Community website. Won't you share a park story with us?

You too can preserve!

You too can preserve!

Does that picture of Uncle Bubba look like him. You know, kinda torn, wrinkled and a little sagging?

Do you have family treasures that are in need of some TLC?  Does that picture of Uncle Bubba look like him?  You know, kinda torn, wrinkled and a little sagging? 

CYC Scanning Open House This Sunday 1-4pm in the CTC

Free Public Scanning

Do you have old letters, photographs or ephemera you would like to have scanned? We will be hosting a monthly scanning open house every third Sunday in the Community Technology Center through 2012. Our first scan date is this Sunday from 1-4pm. 

 We invite you to come and let us digitize your historical treasures and learn about the Creating Your Community Social Archive.

Community Tuesday: Spring is in the air!

The trees are bloomin!

The trees are blooming and flowers are pushing their way up! Creating Your Community has a new Denver's Gardens & Urban Farms community so you can share your garden love with other garden lovers.

Community Tuesday: Dogs of Colorado and the West

Snowshoe Charlie

Colorado is the best place for dog lovers! This community on the Creating Your Community website celebrates Dogs of Colorado and the West. Post a photo or story of your pooch today!

Come Celebrate Preservation Week! April 25th from 10:30-3pm

Preservation week!

To celebrate Preservation Week, the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists and the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department are providing short consultations for your family treasures with conservation experts.*  Archivists at the “Ask an Archivist” table will be able to talk about organizing and storing your family materials at home.

Staff from the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department will be on hand to digitize your artifacts as part of the new Colorado social archive Creating Your Community.