The release event for A City Beautiful Dream: The 1912 Vision for Colorado Springs will be held in in the 1905 Carnegie Reading Room at Penrose Library on Thursday, May 17, from 2 - 3 p.m.

David Rasmussen will portray the book's author, Charles Mulford Robinson, and Pioneers Museum director Matt Mayberry will speak about the City Beautiful movement. The book was originally published in 1912 as The General Plan for the Improvement of Colorado Springs. Books will be available at a 15% discount, and refreshments will be provided.

This event is free and no reservations are required.

Our Summer Reading Programs are coming soon!

The Pew Research Center Internet & American Life Project is conducting an online survey of library patrons. We ask that you take the survey to help us out. All responses will be confidential. The survey should take about 15 minutes.

To take the survey, visit: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/participate/survey/e-book-borrowers

The Pew Internet Project will also be doing other general surveys of library patrons, as well as non-library-users who own e-readers or tablet computers. If you would like to participate future surveys, sign up here to be notified.

To learn more about the Pew Internet Project's research on e-reading and libraries, which is entirely free and available to the public, visit libraries.pewinternet.org.

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