Pikes Peak Library District

• Pikes Peak Library District Buys Former Briargate Mci Building

The Pikes Peak Library District paid cash for a former MCI building on the north end of town Tuesday with plans to move its Briargate branch and administration offices. The library district paid $3.75 million for the 112,883-square foot building at 1175 Chapel Hills Drive. That's about $33 per square foot, said library CFO Mike Varnet.

• Colorado Springs Business Journal
• December 08, 2011

• Woman of Influence: Paula Miller, Executive Director, Pikes Peak Library District

Paula Miller, executive director, Pikes Peak Library District When ranking the institutions crucial to a community's well- being, a library is always going to be near the top.

• Colorado Springs Business Journal
• November 04, 2010

• Woman of Influence: Dee Vazquez, Community Relations Manager of Pikes Peak Library District

Dee Vazquez, community relations manager, Pikes Peak Library District Dee Vazquez was destined to work at a library.

• Colorado Springs Business Journal
• November 04, 2010

• Pikes Peak Library District Offering Demographic Data for Budding Entrepreneurs

So you're starting a business, ramping up an existing one, or launching a new marketing campaign -- and you need demographics. You could, theoretically, spend hours Googling and searching for data, or pay an expert exorbitant sums of money -- or you could use the Pikes Peak Library District's new electronic reference, BusinessDecision.

• Colorado Springs Business Journal
• December 12, 2008

• Branching Out ; Pikes Peak Library District Scrambles to Keep Up with Diverse Demands of Expanding Clientele

Five years ago, Pikes Peak Library District users borrowed 4.5 million items. Last year, users borrowed 6.4 million items -- an increase of almost 30 percent.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• December 07, 2006

• History Comes Alive, Thanks to Award-Winning Librarian

Tim Blevins, mild-mannered and bespectacled, spends much of his time looking for lost people, ferreting out obscure clues about them and sometimes finding them across oceans or hundreds of years back in time. Blevins is manager of special collections for the Pikes Peak Library District, and most days you can find him poring over obscure documents, gumshoeing on the computer and examining brittle, yellowed history books in a climate-controlled vault in the Car- negie wing of Penrose library.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• August 13, 2011

• Friends of Pikes Peak Library District Will Honor Local Writer, Illustrators

[CORRECTION: The Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District's annual awards banquet will be at 12:30 p.m. April 8. Cost is $35. Correction ran 3/1/2006.] The Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District will celebrate local literary talents Ann Zwinger, Michael Hague and Kathleen Hague at the Friends' annual meeting and awards banquet, 12:30 p.m. April 8 at the Antlers Hilton hotel, 4 S. Cascade Ave.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• March 01, 2006

• Movers & Shakers: New Hires, Promotions, Honors, New Businesses

- Pikes Peak Library District video producer Dave Franklyn and multimedia producer Jamey Hastings were recently honored with Telly Awards for programs they created for PPLD TV. The Telly Awards began in 1978 and honor the best local, regional and cable television commercials and programs each year, as well as the finest video and film productions and work created for the Web. Franklyn was awarded a Bronze Telly for his production of the Bomba Estereo World Music Series Concert at Colorado College. Hastings was awarded two Bronze Telly Awards - one for "Tracing Tesla: The Search for His Lost Laboratory" and another highlighting the district's Science in Context database. - Blane Clark, CPA, litigation manager with Auer Woodley Hilderbrand & Sanders, and litigation associate Colleen Evans...

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• June 09, 2011

• Interview with Paula Miller, New Executive Director of Pikes Peak Library District

The Pikes Peak Library District has embarked on a new chapter with Paula Miller taking over as the system's executive director.A native of Ohio, Mille...

• Colorado Springs Business Journal
• March 10, 2006

• Price Is Right at Public Libraries During Tough Times

If the local library seems busier, it's not just perception. Use at libraries statewide has jumped in recent years, and the Pikes Peak Library District is finding even more ways for patrons to access information and services.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• April 06, 2011