Good morning!
I want to correct misinformation that appeared in yesterday's Pueblo Chieftain in the "Letters to the Editor" on the newspaper's Sunday edition Opinion page.

PCCLD's Annual Pueblo United Way Fund Raising Campaign is underway.  Employees can make a one time contribution or elect a payroll deduction to support the efforts of United Way in our community.  The deadline for giving is December 1st.

Today Sharon Rice hosted our first Lego Mania at GHV and I just had to share our excitement about the wonderful turnout!  Someone just came in the door and reported that they took the last parking space!  We had 37 builders join us for today's challenge and fun was had by all!

I accidently left out another Support Department that was instrumental, Human Resources.  Thanks for recruiting and helping me hire such a great group of people!

By the way, we had 651 visitors on our first day.

Kayci

We had a wonderful ribbon cutting this morning, and we are now officially open!!!

Thanks to all the Support Services who have been working really hard to ensure our success.  Especially Tech Services, IT, Community Relations, Finance, and last, but certainly not least, Facilities.

The new Greenhorn Valley Library is getting ready to celebrate one full week of being open to the public, and what a week it’s been!  Sixty five people joined us for the ribbon cutting ceremony despite sub-zero temperatures last Wednesday to listen to opening remarks, to cheer as the ribbon was

This patron has been reinstated. The patron has served the suspension term plus additional time without any further verifiable documentation, incidents, or occurrences. Patron was eligible for reinstatement on 11/16/2016. 

Michael Velasquez has been suspended for being intoxicated.

If you have not yet noticed the latest Key Results report, we have met and surpassed our goals for circulation, program attendance and digital use!
Congratulations to everyone for their hard work and focus on a common goal!

Did you know that customers can submit feedback through the online catalog? It comes by email to me. I get several comments or questions each week, and many of them are very positive about our staff and the services we provide.
I hope to continue to share these regularly. Here's what customers have been saying so far this month:

"The library's website catalog is very easy to use! I appreciate the refined search results..."
"Library staff is very helpful and friendly...thank you!"
"Love checking out books online."

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain was PCCLD's most checked out fiction book for the month of October, more than doubling the number of checkouts for the previous number on positions.