Spokescat Sarambi here: Today is a break from promo, let's just all bask in this kitten's kitten-ness. A little bit about Sarambi: "This is Sarambi, she was my Christmas gift this year and she is a total orange cat at such an early age. "

Spokescat Max in my catnip barrel here: I'm not what you'd call a "traditional pollinator," but Carbon Valley Library has an upcoming Pollinator-Friendly Gardening event where you can learn to make your garden a year-round sanctuary for butterflies, bees, and ME! highplains.libcal.com/event/15675008

Spokescat Sylphrena here: I'm a princess, and I like breakfast. When I learned Carbon Valley Regional Library is hosting a Teen Pancake Movie night, and they're watching Princess Bride, I thought there's never been an event better suited to my promo skills highplains.libcal.com/event/15877835

HPLD is closed today, BUT our streaming and download services are ALWAYS open for business! www.mylibrary.us/stream

Spokescat Jinji here: Is your gmail inbox more out of control than a power-hungry cat who bullies a dog now and then and runs the entire house? Maybe you should consider hitting up Farr Library's Introduction to Gmail class Tues. Jan. 20th at 10 AM. highplains.libcal.com/event/15725487

Meet Boots With the Purr. Y'know, over the last few years, a lot of little ones have needed to do some online learning. With Workforge, you can get a short course that'll help you make the most of an online learning session. www.mylibrary.us/learnonline

LINC is closing up at 4 today THANKS TO THE WIND! More like NO THANKS to the wind. Like, ENOUGH ALREADY! Anyways, power is on and off over there, and doors are closing at 4.

Don't forget today's MLK Day of Service event at Centennial Park Library! Assemble hygiene kits and literacy kits, make no-sew fleece scarves, or make kindness cards. Stop by anytime from 4:00-7:00 pm. 2227 23rd Ave, Greeley, CO 80634

This is Mr. Man, and while his lack of eyes might SEEM like it'd inhibit reading, fortunately we've got a HUGE collection of Playaways, single-book MP3 players with actual, tactile buttons! www.mylibrary.us/playaway

Wed. Jan. 21, we've got our newest installment in Climate Conversations, this one focused on AI and climate! highplains.libcal.com/event/15961338 How might AI help Tippy the Spokescat predict the best sunbeamin' days way ahead of time? Come by and find out!

Coming up in March, LINC will be hosting HPLD's First Gaming Showdown! Want to get in on the action? Find your nearest HPLD gaming crew, qualify for the big tourney, and show us what you're made of! bit.ly/hpldsmash

This is Bean. It may (or may not) surprise you to know that Bean does NOT know how to use Microsoft Excel very well. AH, but the library has an online workforce database, called Workforge, and it includes Excel lessons from beginner to advanced. www.mylibrary.us/excel

We'll be closed Mon. Jan. 19, one week from today. Consider this like the closing announcements we make every night, but a week ahead and for an entire day! Ask questions, check out your items, grab your holds, do your print jobs, and take care of any library business you've got!

Spokescat Hazel here: There's nothing I like better than observing from high up, looking down on the world! And if there's one book that can provide that sort of thrill, it's Absolute Batman! This book is tearing up the comics world, and you should probably get on it!

Spokescat Cyra here. ADVENTURE Spokescat Cyra. Did you know you can check out a State Park pass FREE from your library? And the bookings are looking pretty wide open! I mean, it IS winter, but, c'mon, adventure doesn't wait for the seasons to change. www.mylibrary.us/pass

MINI BLEP! This is Lemmy, named after the lead singer of Motörhead! Who had an unreleased album come out this last summer! Metal Hammer calls it "an absolute joy for fans." An absolute joy available at your library! hpldencore.mylibrary.us/iii/encore/r...

Ever want to help the community but find it difficult to know where to start? We've got an answer for you with our MLK Day of Service event at Centennial Park Library!

Spokescat Tarot here: The word is out about Dungeon Crawler Carl, but did you know Matt Dinniman has a NEW book coming out, and you can put it on hold right now!? I'd get on the list, like, now. hpldencore.mylibrary.us/iii/encore/r...

Spokescat Isis here: You probably wouldn't guess it, but I'll be 21 this year! For my fellow seniors looking to get out there and mingle, we've got Senior LINC Up Thurs. Jan. 8 at LINC, and we've got Senior Social Circle Mon. Jan. 12 at Riverside! highplains.libcal.com/calendar/hpl...

Well, we asked for Spokescats and you all have DELIVERED! About 160 so far! We figured we'd better get started, so here's Pirate Fuzzball along with The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley, which you can get from HPLD, by the way! hpldencore.mylibrary.us/iii/encore/r...

We gave you the first to recover, and now it's Jan. 2nd. Time to get on with our lives! This is your year, right? You'll work out, call your mom a little more, and SIGN UP FOR ARO! Even if you were signed up for 2025, it's all new, so sign up! www.mylibrary.us/aro

The people have spoken, you want cat pics. So, here's the 2026 plan: If you want to see YOUR cat achieve a fairly regional level of fame, which is pretty famous for a cat, submit a pic of your cat here: mylibrary.us/spokescats

We don't want to make like a huge, big deal about it. When your birthday is on January 1st, you kind of expect it to be forgotten a bit in all the holiday excitement. BUT, HPLD turns 40 today!

Meet the Author! Nothing we like better than a local author event, and this time we've got Josi Wahlert, who recently published A Found Voice: Poetry for New Life! Grover Library, Sat. Jan 17, 1 PM highplains.libcal.com/event/15421647

ARO 2026 will be unleashed on January 1st! We've put together another year of reading, of prizes, of CHALLENGE. www.mylibrary.us/aro

The bad news: We're closing up at 5 PM today, Wed. the 31st. The good news: Starting right at 5, you can throw a cozy HPLD library ambiance on any AND ALL screens around you! It'll last until midnight! What a perfect way to ring in the New Year. youtu.be/9IVT4SiVnKs

Did you catch our latest newsletter? Dark Academia Christmas, CAGEMAS, and some actually helpful letters about getting books in the library and publishing for first-timers? www.mylibrary.us/newsletter

ARO is ending for 2025 to make room for ARO 2026. Tally your final books, claim your prizes. Because on January 1st, 2026, we put on the Bookfinity Gauntlet, snap our fingers, and all will forget what was in order to accept what can be. www.mylibrary.us/aro

Tomorrow, Sat. the 27th, we've got a Caped Capers Junior Escape room over at LINC. Just in case you wanted to get out of the house. Maybe if some houseguests are...you know...pushing the limits. highplains.libcal.com/event/15579548

That's right, through a Voltron-ing of what HPLD offers, you can make a library trip fast and easy. Bundle Service, Curbside Pickup, Regular Friday Hours, and Mobile Printing all come together to form the ultimate in convenience.

We're closed today as well, but here are a few holiday photos we unearthed while on the search for some way to remind everyone we wouldn't be open that wasn't just an oddly-shaded drawing of a candy cane probably done by some bot in a data center somewhere. This is better right? Much better.

Yes, we're closed today and tomorrow. BUT you can throw on this video and still get that cozy library ambiance we all love! See, even AMBIANCE has gone digital!

It's okay. We get it. And, hey, if you don't get all the books you were looking for this year, come on by and see us.

Looks like we're having some website issues, and our menus are LOST! In the meantime while we get this fixed: Stream/Download Books, Movies, etc: mylibrary.us/stream Databases: mylibrary.us/learn Just about everything else: mylibrary.us/services

Hmm...idea for library souvenir churning...

Real talk: Did you not quite reach your 2025 reading goals? It's okay, lots of us in that boat. Hey, even us librarians don't quite hit it sometimes. But we've got some ways to make 2026 a little closer.

Today, 11:30 at Riverside, we've got Senior Social Circle. If friends and family might not be around over the holidays, stop by and say Hello, charge up that social battery a bit!

Tomorrow, Mon. the 22nd, 2 to 4 at LINC, Book Cart Painting! Let's add some personality to the library's book carts! Some color! Some pizzazz! Or some slightly different beiges if that's your thing!

Coming up Dec. 29: Robot Petting Zoo at LINC! See robots, touch robots, maybe even find a robot car and solve mysteries with it! Okay, that last one probably won't happen, but robot pals are fun even if they don't solve diamond heists!

CSU Extension has a new resource, Senior Access Points, a website full of information and resources for seniors and their caregivers. Head over to www.weld.gov/Government/D... and take a look!

Library Closures Incoming! ...guess when. Bet you can guess! Did you guess that HPLD libraries would be closed Dec. 24 and 25th, and also that we'll close at 5 PM on Dec. 31st and be closed all day Jan. 1, 2026? Good guess. One might even call that a "perfect" guess.

Love this - WOW is a family favorite, and a lot like the museum aspects of the LINC in Greeley! (Nudge, nudge to all of my CO followers and library friends…)

So this is how i find out about cat+gamer, something 8 i now need to read and didn't know existed 15 seconds ago.

Gift Idea: Hey, it's getting a little late, but if you head over to the Weld County Images Collection (hosted by yours truly), you can find some great pics from Greeley History. Weird stuff, old-timey stuff, and more than one pic of a potato! cdm16720.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Welcome to the party, pal! WOW! Children's Museum has joined our lineup of Experience Pass options for 2026! The first available dates aren't until January, but those dates are reserve-able now! www.mylibrary.us/epass/

Give the gift of making a Book a Librarian appointment for yourself before friends and family come in from out of town. I help family with tech and don't mind it, but it's nice to spend time together on the holidays without a tech project to get done. www.mylibrary.us/bal

It is my professional duty to inform you that there is a book called Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre on Hoopla that includes a moment when Jay Gatsby turns into a monster to fight Godzilla, and someone drops the line, "He has truly become...The Great Gatsby." www.hoopladigital.com/comic/godzil...

What say you? Love the deckle or hate it?