I had the opportunity to go to Colorado with my family. It was JSM (the Joint Statistical Meetings – the big stats meeting my husband always attends) the end of July. This year, Denver hosted the convention. I was excited because I’d never been to Colorado. One of the fun things we’ve learned to do on vacation is spend an afternoon in the big city library.
The exterior of the main branch of the public library promised something cool on the inside. I’m not sure it fulfilled that promise.
Inside, it was four floors high, with a three-floor central arcade. Collections were off on the sides. There was teen space, but I was surprised at how minimal the YA collection was inside that section. Miss Adventure was looking to read some new Tamora Pierce our library system doesn’t have, but they only had two of her books.
I did venture into the children’s section of the library, just to see what they had. It was definitely much more playful in that wing of the library. While the main branch of the Denver Public Library wasn’t the most exciting library we’ve been to (I think the Salt Lake City library gets that distinction), it had plenty of books to keep us occupied for a few hours as we relaxed.