Hello All! Great news. Cyd is back! Hopefully I didn't screw up too many things in her absence. It sure is nice to have the expert back though. Our Summer Reading Program is off and running with a full head of steam. Our opening program featured Markie the puppeteer. We had an unbelievable 62 kids. Our second program featured Doc Wild and we had 64 kids. I don't know how many more kids we can squeeze into our little library. I hope all is going well with everyone elses' programs!

We just had our Summer Reading Program kick-off with "The Quest for the Junk Yard Dragon". It was absolutely wonderful! We had 62 kids participate today. Markie was terrific. If any of you are in need of a puppeteer, she is the person to get! She kept the kids engaged and on the edge of their seats. It really was a treat to watch her! We have the three new laptop computers up and running. They couldn't have come at a better time; school just let out, and out community pool isn't open yet. Needless to say, we have been quite busy around here.

Even though I still feel technologically challenged, I have to say, I have learned a lot from these Web 2.0 lessons. I have tried things I never thought I would try (setting up a facebook page). Doing the GoToMeetings and twittering are probably my favorites. My pledge for this year is to attend at least 1 of the Opal Meetings a month, play with twitter at least twice a week, and to post a blog at least once a week. Thanks to all of you out there that offered advice and set up these lessons. You guys are great! Hope to continue to hear from you all. Until next week...

I have been working on the Web 2.0 tools section. I tried the google calendar app., as well as the tweetdeck app. on my twitter site. I think the calendar app. was extremely easy to use as well as being being something I will use many time over. I am not much of a calendar person, so having the calendar "ding" me and remind is a really cool bonus. Setting up the tweetdeck was not difficult, but in all honesty, I wasn't as enamored with it as I was the calendar app. There are a few other apps that I am now wanting to try out, but I thought I would get my feet wet with these two first. What's everyone else out there doing?

Hello, All! Hope your summer has started off well. Boulder Community Library has set up its Summer Reading Program schedule. All programs run from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.. Our start-up date is June 15th and our first presenter is going to be Markie-The Puppeteer, followed by:

• June 22nd Doc Wild
• June 29th Franci (childrens author)
• July 6th Mr. E
• July 13th Mr. Tavery (art instructor)
• July 20th Dan McCarl & Friends (musicians)
• July 27th Dusty & Lynn (musicians)
• August 3rd Pizza & Prize Party

We are hoping for a great turn-out this year! Our friends of the library group have donated books, 2 digital cameras, and 2 apple i-pods for prizes to be given away to the busiest readers. Can't wait for it all to get underway!