Captain Cache's Curiosities Podcast

Ahoy mateys! Sorry ye haven’t heard from the ol’ Capt’n Cache in a wee bit. But I be recoverin’ in me ship’s cabin from a bit of an illness. I won’t be goin’ into the details of what kept me from the seas, but it be enough to tell ye that I promise to be […]

Updated 5/2019 with Captain Cache’s Curiosities Podcast episode Ahoy there! ‘Tis I, Capt’n Cache, here to tell ye about a new digital resource available at yer Library District. Our mateys over at the Front Range Community College have gone ahead and added a new database from EBSCO to the Answer Cache eResources so it be […]

by Captain Cache Ahoy mateys! And a good New Year to ye! If ye be like me, makin’ resolutions to be readin’ and learnin’ in 2018, then ye best be gettin’ to yer library. I finally be readin’ all the Percy Jackson & The Olympians books this month and it be getting’ me all curious […]

Updated 4/2019 with Captain Cache Podcast  We’re excited about a brand new digital resource available at the library called TumbleBooks! This eResource is a collection of children’s eBooks with added animation, sound, music, and narration that are perfect for summer reading and entertaining. TumbleBooks offers digital books on demand, so there are no checkouts, holds, […]

Guest post by Cap’n Cache. Updated 4/18/19 Ahoy me hearties! Did ye miss ol’ Cap’n Cache while I be gone sailin’ the seas? Well, I be back just in time to be tellin’ ye about library resources for Earth Week that be comin’ up this month. Yer 2017 Earth Week begins April 16 (that be […]

Updated 5/2019 with Captain Cache’s Curiosities Podcast episode about 3D printing at the Libraries. On the second floor of the Old Town Library, tucked over by the computers and printers, sits a large complex looking machine that steadily toils nearly every day printing wondrous, and sometimes strange objects. It’s a machine for the makers, the […]

Ahoy! Cap’n Cache reporting for National Poetry Month (aka April). Bein’ a man o’ the high seas, I don’t dabble much in the world o’ poetry, but I figured for this special month I’d check it out. National Poetry Month was established in 1996 by the Academy o’ American Poets. Arr! It be the largest […]

updated 6/13/19 Matey, did ye know June be National Audiobook Month? What a perfect time o’ year too, when people be roadtrippin’, an’ travelin’, an’ exercisin’. Ye can take an audiobook anywhere! Now, ye may be sayin’, “Captain Cache, I don’t own any audiobooks.” Don’t ye worry, me friend. Thanks to yer local library, ye have […]

Updated 12/12/2018 with Captain Cache podcast episode.   Ahoy Mateys and a Happy New Year to ye! With the season’s cold and icy waters, I be hunkered down in me Cap’n’s quarters. In an attempt to be festive, I’ve been researchin’ new year’s around the world and have found some pretty interestin’ facts! Did ye […]

History facts wit’ Captain Cache Yesterday it be cold and rainy, and I was huddled below deck in the Reading Rodger. It be a perfect day for researchin’ I thought, so I fired up me computer and navigated to the Answer Cache under the Research Tab of the Poudre River Libraries website. There I were, […]

Ahoy, mateys! I, Captain Cache, be the newest member of the Poudre River Public Library District’s mascot team. It be an honor, ye know, bein’ just a simple pirate and all, t’ represent the Libraries’ online activities. Let me tell ya how I came to be a Library Mascot… Once upon a time, in a […]