5 Ways the Library Can Help with Homework

The Clearview Library has a vast array of resources to help your children with their homework, school projects, papers, and more. 

“Library staff are resource experts,” said Public Services Manager Casey Lansinger-Pierce. “Let us know what your child is working on, and we'll find the most age appropriate / skill-level appropriate resources for them to use!”

Utilize these great resources to help support classroom learning and projects:

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Staff Spotlight: Heidi Fuhrman

Each month we spotlight one of the friendly staff faces you’ll run into at the Windsor-Severance Library or on the bookmobile.

Meet Mobile Services Assistant Heidi Fuhrman:

Hometown: Fort Collins, CO

Interests: Anything in the mountains--hiking, skiing, camping! Reading (with cups of tea), baking, hanging with my family and friends, nerding out about history or space!

Staff Spotlight: Asa Kennison

Each month we spotlight one of the friendly staff faces you’ll run into at the Windsor-Severance Library or on the bookmobile.

Hometown: Right here in Windsor. Our library is the library I went to growing up.

Interests: Playing, listening to, or talking about music. Video games, traveling, daydreaming.

Staff Spotlight: Jesse Feavel

Each month we spotlight one of the friendly staff faces you’ll run into at the Windsor-Severance Library or on the bookmobile.

Hometown: Longmont, Colo.

Interests: Spending time with my family and collecting old comic books.

Favorite Book: I always seem to come back to the book Holes by Louis Sachar. It’s a great book!

Library and School District Partner to Bring e-Books to Students

In the face of the pandemic, one thing didn’t stop: learning. Teachers, students, and parents rallied together last spring to continue the learning cycle in the digital realm. Over the summer, the Weld RE-4 School District was able to evaluate their digital classroom needs and plan for a variety of learning contingencies in the fall. “Our school libraries have a very limited number of e-book and audiobook options,” shared Weld RE-4 School District’s Mollie Amundson.

Newspapers.com Gives Online Access to Historical Papers

The year is 1882. Subscribers open the Fort Collins Daily Evening Courier on June 19 to learn more about local hailstorms, a cyclone in Iowa, a march from Mexico, and a broken ankle from a street car.

Step back in time to explore daily life with Newspapers.com Library Edition. This extensive database provides online access to more than 4,000 historical newspapers, from the early 1700s to the 2000s.

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