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The Census
It’s More Than
Just a Head Count
Lisa Flavin, Reference Services Librarian
Since 1790, the federal government higher risk populations, like older Census data can help community
has taken a count of the United people or young children. planners track changing demographics,
States population every 10 years such as age, ethnicity and renter and
to gain an accurate picture of our An accurate census count can benefit ownership rates. Such data can also
ever-changing demographics. The your favorite nonprofit too. Billions determine traffic patterns or the need
2020 count was expected to be no in federal funding for programs such for more parks, hospitals and roads.
different. Plans for an online count, as school nutrition, housing and
the first of its kind, were moving health care will be determined by INDIVIDUALS:
forward, and field operations were the outcome of the census, making it Census data can be used to
readying to assist people at their imperative to get an accurate count in reconstruct your family tree- since
homes. Fast forward to today, and historically undercounted populations. data becomes public after 72 years, it
we know that much has changed- can help with genealogy research.
dates have been extended and field BUSINESSES:
operations are taking extra safety Businesses can use census data to The census is much more than a
precautions. But, despite the many strategize their operations, expand head count. It is a tool to ensure
complications of 2020, the count and succeed. For example, real that representation and funding is
continues with a new deadline of estate companies can determine addressing changing community
October 31, 2020. housing demands, retail stores can needs. Despite our current
analyze demographic shifts, and challenges, it is easier than ever to
Why is the census important? The small business owners can find new complete the census online or by
main purpose of the count is to customers and decide where to open phone. Make a difference in your
determine how many seats each additional locations. community - be counted today.
state receives in the U.S. House of
Representatives, how more than
$675 billion in federal resources
will be distributed, and how
congressional district boundaries
are drawn. Completing the census
doesn’t just mean you are living in
the United States, it means that you
are counted in your government.
The census is much
How else is census data important?
more than a head
COMMUNITY ASSETS: count. It is a tool
Census data helps determine funding
for critical community health assets to ensure that
like hospitals, clinics and food banks.
Census data also informs decisions representation
on Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition and funding is
program funding.
addressing changing
Many 9-1-1 emergency systems are
based on census maps. And, through community needs.
using these maps, health care
professionals can predict the spread
of disease in communities with
After Helen graduated from
A Chief Interest in People Montclair High School in 1897, the
family could not afford to send her
to the University of Denver. Instead,
and Books for 130 Years studious Helen needed to find a job.
One morning in January
Katie Rudolph, Archivist/Librarian, Western History & Genealogy 1898, Mother had read an
announcement in the morning
paper of an examination for a
training class in the Denver Public
Library to be held in the East
Denver High School at Nineteenth
and Stout Streets….Well, I decided
to go and made an early start…I
saw a few familiar faces as I
looked around and I thought,
‘You haven’t a chance in the
world with all these smart girls
taking the examination.’...a letter
from Mr. John Parsons, librarian,
notified me that I had been
chosen for the training class.”
At the time Helen was selected to
be part of the library apprenticeship
program (where she received a $5.00
stipend each month), Denver Public
Library had been operating as a free
circulating library for eight years in
the south wing of the old East Denver
High School (20th and Stout Streets).
The library boasted, according to
Helen, “a children’s room; and picture
collections; and open shelves, all
almost the first in the country.”
Open shelving and a welcoming
Helen Ingersoll, second from right, breaks ground for the new Denver Public Library (now known as the McNichols
Building in Civic Center Park), August 7, 1906. Left to right: Jean Dudley, F. M. Richie, Mr. Frederick Ross (architect), atmosphere became the trademarks
Mr. C. R. Dudley, Helen F. Ingersoll, B. H. Lichter (contractor)[?], and Marion Dudley (in front). X-221 of the Denver Public Library under
the leadership of renowned librarian
John Cotton Dana. Although Helen
These days, I answer Western History and Genealogy reference questions by never worked for Dana, (he departed
phone and email from a desk in my guest bedroom. Nothing about librarianship the library in 1897), she remembered
from home seems normal right now, but it does follow a longstanding pattern— seeing him while researching her high
when the going gets tough, librarians get going. school graduation essay on Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe at the library:
A librarian named Helen Francis Ingersoll certainly knew about the going getting
tough. She served the people of Denver through some of the most major crises of ...while I was working at a
the 20th century: World War I, the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Great Depression, reference table, Mr. Dana came
and World War II. Her long career with the Denver Public Library spanned from and stood in the doorway
1898 to 1947, and is documented in the humble, staple-bound booklet I Remember... I remember his voice which
The Reminiscences of My Years in the Denver Public Library. was very deep—I can remember
him vividly, tall and rather
In fact, it was a global economic crisis—the Panic of 1893—that brought Helen to stooped...He was a scholar...and
Denver Public Library in the first place. Up until 1893, life had been going well for called himself a ‘philosophical
the Ingersoll family. They moved from Kansas to Colorado in 1890 and settled in anarchist,” and as an example
Montclair, a new, wealthy development east of Denver. Mr. Ingersoll, Helen’s father, of his ‘anarchy’ believed in open
made a good living investing in mining and real estate. But when the price of silver shelves in public libraries long
tumbled in June 1893 and banks subsequently failed, many Denverites experienced before that was put into practice
substantial financial loss, including Helen’s father. by libraries in general. He
encouraged browsing…”
A place that did not encourage browsing at that time In 1902, the Denver Public Library moved again, this
was Denver’s Mercantile Library (also known as “City time to a temporary location in La Veta Place, “a long
Library”). Established by the Denver Chamber of terrace of residences facing Colfax and turning the
Commerce in 1884, it began as a corner along Bannock” (where
subscription library where patrons, Civic Center Park now stands).
according to Helen, “paid $5 to $10 Helen commented that the move
or more for the privilege of drawing “was very hard on the staff,”
books.” Located in the Chamber of adding, “The once fashionable place
Commerce Building at Fourteenth was grimy, and there were bats,
and Lawrence, Helen could recall and there were bedbugs crawling
the oppressive atmosphere of the out of the layers of old wallpaper.”
Mercantile Library:
Next to the La Veta Place Library,
We went into a big room full ground was broken for Denver
of cages. No one had access Public Library’s new Carnegie
to books. There were printed library (now known as the
catalogues. You filled out a slip McNichols building in Civic Center
and handed it through a wire Park) in 1906. Helen attended the
grating….and the books were brought from some groundbreaking ceremony and held her spade while
mysterious place back of the cages. The printed wearing “a white pique dress and a most ravishing
catalogues were chained to a table; and there was chiffon hat with pink roses on it.” In early 1910, library
a long hard bench where one waited for books. staff began moving books from La Veta Place Library
to the new library and were amazed at the number
By August 1898, it was agreed of empty shelves. One patron
upon that the Mercantile Library exclaimed, “You will never have
and the Denver Public Library enough books to fill all those
would consolidate. When the shelves. The wastefulness of it!”
Denver Public Library moved
its books to the Chamber of Of course, those shelves did get
Commerce building only to find filled with books eventually.
there wasn’t enough shelving, And as the years passed, Denver
the Prudential Insurance Public Library became more than
Company built a temporary two- a singular library, but rather a
story building across from the system of branch and mobile
courthouse on 15th Street to house libraries that kept pace as Denver’s
the collection. geographical size expanded and its
population increased.
While Helen called it a “splendid
location for a library,” she could remember troubles In this moment—130 years after its founding and during
during a smallpox outbreak. In December 1899, a an unprecedented pandemic—Denver Public Library
physician visited the library and noticed a customer is much more than just a system of library buildings
with a case of smallpox using the newspaper room. with books on shelves. Providing virtual storytimes,
He reported it immediately to then-City Librarian downloadable e-books, and a helpful reference phone
C. R. Dudley. Helen recalled what line are just some of the many
happened next: ways we are offering assistance
and reassurance in a difficult time.
The Board of Health had been A vision for “a strong community
vaccinating everyone. Of course, where everyone thrives” still holds
the Librarian sent for the police true, even in a time of crisis.
surgeon, who came galloping
up to the library—literally Something Helen Ingersoll wrote
galloping the horses hitched in 1947 struck me because it gets
to the ambulance. A policeman at the core of the library’s vision
was stationed at every door and and mission here in 2020. While
unless one could show a well- reflecting on her many years of
developed, new vaccination mark, service, Helen said, “My chief
he was vaccinated on the spot. interest was in people and in books;
One very prominent woman.... and never never did I want anybody
then Superintendent of Schools in to go without having something
the State of Colorado, tried to good—not anybody.”
crawl out of one of the back windows....”
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With the COVID-19 public health
crisis closing everything from
libraries to businesses to schools
and camps, many people are now
faced with a new reality- being a
caregiver in a new, shelter-in-place
environment. For parents, it can feel
like we’re suddenly expected to be
experts in things we don’t necessarily
have any experience with: we’re now
teachers, full-time entertainers, and
Nate Stone, ideaLAB Program Administrator IT support for small children. For
those of you feeling this pressure,
consider the joy of craft time.
Some people may find doing arts and
crafts with children as intimidating
as explaining the difference between
numbers and digits, but there is a
magic phrase that can change your
perspective and help you enjoy this
activity for the first time and every
time after that: process over product.
There are what seems like an infinite
number of craft and art projects for
kids on the internet: make a bean
bag toss game or a cardboard robot
or a macaroni galaxy or your five
millionth batch of slime! These are
all fun projects, but the instructions,
with their photos of impossibly well-
groomed children creating instagram-
worthy crafts leave the adults feeling
less “expert” when projects fail to
live up to internet standards. A focus
solely on a product implies there will
be a right way and a wrong way to
make something.
A “workbench” my
kids and I made
out of scrap wood.
Star Wars TIE Fighter my
son made for the bear.
Become a Friend
Reframing craft time to focus
on process means talking about
materials, about tools, and about
possibilities. It isn’t abandoning a Gretchen Roberts, Director of Philanthropy,
product - they aren’t opposites, and Marketing, Events & Book Sales,
something is still getting created Denver Public Library Friends Foundation
- but it is being open to letting the
product be determined by what you
learn along the way. It means laying
whatever you find in the house out
on a table and asking “I wonder if...”
It means starting with a question,
letting the learners direct the
exploration, and seeing what you
find along the way. It means
becoming a learner alongside the
young people in your house, creating
a space where it’s okay for everyone
to make mistakes - a space we rarely
get to inhabit.
At my house, we’ve assembled a box
with all of our most useful tools - a
low-temp hot glue gun, scissors,
markers, some nuts and bolts, tape
- and I’ll encourage my kids to pick
a single material from the pile and
see what they can make. We’ll talk
about what they were doing before, Like most of us these days, “I was motivated to become a Friend
if there was a problem they wish they Emma misses visits to the library. because the library provides so
could solve or some prop that would much more than access to books.”
A Denver resident, her library
have made their play more fun. story goes back to childhood. Memberships like Emma’s provide
That has led to things like a camera “I have distinct memories of support for library initiatives such as:
stand made of popsicle sticks, a going to storytime with my
workbench made from scrap wood Online courses
mom at the library as well as my
and felt Wonder Woman tiaras. The tan/beige paper library card.” Citizenship classes
best part, as a parent, was creating
Storytimes
a less stressful environment and Her more recent library memories
experiencing the joy of watching my involve attending programs Homebound services
kids explore their own projects. like documentary viewings and Business plan development
“learning to knit the most complex
If you’d like some inspiration, snowflake/star ornament that hromebooks & internet
C
try searching for “process art” or I didn’t finish.” (Let’s admit it. hot spots for circulation
“tinkering” and you’ll find great We all have a project or two like 3-D printing
suggestions, but the greatest that in our closets.)
guides you’ll find are the young Through these services and more,
people right in your house. When Recognizing the important public libraries have the power to
your children have a project they role that libraries play in our change lives–just ask Emma.
are proud of, please share it with communities, and in spite of library
building closures, Emma decided to “The library has provided me with
everyone by entering it in the Denver
pay it forward. In May she became access to computers and internet
Public Library Maker Challenge.
a Friend, a member of the Denver to use as I don’t have my own and
Participants upload a picture,
Public Library Friends Foundation, I spent many hours there applying
video, or sound recording with a
which provides ongoing funding for jobs in January and February.”
short description of their project to
denverlibraryadventures.org and for library programs, services and Memberships make it possible for
will then be entered into a drawing collections. Annual membership our library to remain strong and
for gift cards from local businesses. renewals from Friends provide ready to support the community.
Keep creating and having fun- we look dependable support for library If you consider yourself a library
forward to seeing what you make! offerings that nurture literacy, lover, we invite you to join Emma and
imagination and lifelong learning. become a Friend at this critical time.
Join Denver Public Library for Summer of
Adventure! Read, make, explore to receive
a free book and be entered to win gift cards
to local businesses or family passes to
local cultural institutions. The program is
open to youth birth to 12th grade.
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:
Start your adventure @
denverlibraryadventures.org
Program ends August 8.
Smiley Storytime collection of 30, or mesmerizing a packed house as he
read and acted out a story, Dana treasured his time at the
century-old, northwest Denver branch.
Legend Mr. Dana Dana entertained and taught hundreds and hundreds of
kids over the years, and when those children grew up, in
Strums into many cases, he read to their kids’ kids.
The ukulele and banjo-playing librarian shared a letter
Retirement on the Smiley Branch Library Facebook page to say
goodbye and express his love for his job, the library, and
the community. “As I close the doors of that wonderful
Sherry Spitsnaugle, Communications Specialist old library behind me for the last time,” he wrote, “I will
hold dear the knowledge, wonder, laughter, and joy I
discovered at that sweet Smiley Library.”
To get an idea of how much the community loved him, one
only needs to read the 77 comments on Smiley’s Facebook
page. Here are a few:
“Dana, you have served three generations of our
family with kindness and warmth. You are such an
important part of the community.”
“Mr. Dana’s story times will always be some of my
favorite memories when my boys were babies.”
“This sweet, wonderful, hilarious, kind, magical man…
has been the guiding rod, the glue, the joy,
the moment of sanity, the resource of exactly
what you need.”
“Mr. Dana had the best story time in the world! It
was like a free rock concert every week, well worth
fighting the crowds to grab a spot right up front.
Even when my kids aged out, they loved seeing
Mr. Dana around the library.”
Recognized with the Customer Loyalty Award in
2013 presented by the library, Dana is also a favorite
with colleagues.
“I worked at Smiley for only a year-and-a-half, but that
short time was pivotal, and it was due to Dana,”
says Kristen Monroe, senior librarian at Eugene Field
Wearing his signature Hawaiian shirt and effervescent smile, Branch Library. “He is incredibly special to me and to the
librarian Dana Richardson has strummed the ukulele and Smiley community. Dana is an absolute legend.”
delighted kids at weekly storytimes at the Smiley Branch
Library for the last two and a-half decades. Dana’s retirement comes as the 102-year-old Smiley
building begins renovations through the Elevate Denver
“Mr. Dana,” as he affectionately known, retired from Bond Program. Construction began in May and the branch
Denver Public Library at the end of May. He looks back on will be closed for at least six months. Smiley Branch staff
his 25 years with fondness and gratitude. will relocate to other Denver Public Library locations
during the closure, but Dana will be spending his time with
“I will always hold dear those good memories that the his wife, their houseful of beloved pets, and memories of a
children and parents have kindly shared with me, and I wonderful career that positively impacted so many.
will miss the smiles and laughter,” he says.
“Goodbyes are hard,” he says, “especially when it is to
Whether he was playing a crowd favorite, such as Catalina someone and something you love.”
Matalina, on one of the ukuleles from his personalA Day with Denver Public Library
Tara Bannon Williamson, Senior Librarian, Park Hill Branch Library
As you wake up this morning, you take in the bright Colorado sunlight streaming
through a nearby window. You stretch languidly and set your intentions for the day
for relaxation and exploration. Luckily, you have a Denver Public Library card!
As your day begins and you prepare your breakfast, As you ease into your afternoon, you seek mental
you decide to stream an album from VOLUME Denver, stimulation to keep your skills sharp and help earn the
a local music project. Streaming local music reminds nap you see in the not-too-distant future.
you of your favorite nights in darkly lit music venues
when you stayed up way too late
If you choose to
Want to try learning explore local history,
If you decide to If you decide to a new language? pick one of the
make biscuits make waffles and Pick one of the many extensively
and gravy, listen bacon, listen to 70 languages that researched and
to Odessa Rose Automatic Iris Mango Languages engagingly written
has to offer. Western History and
Genealogy blogs.
With breakfast consumed, you look out the front
window and decide to get some fresh air. You grab
your face mask, hand sanitizer and headphones to After you arise from your well earned nap, you find
listen to a downloadable audiobook as you stroll, and yourself hungry again. Is it already time for dinner?
head out the front door.
Thinking delivery
If you decide on a If you feel like instead? Place your
For a shorter cooking, try order, then scroll
long walk, listen to
walk, listen to a recipe from through the library’s
Harry Potter and
Aimless Love: an online vast digital collection
the Sorcerer’s Stone
A Collection magazine. of photos, maps and
by J.K. Rowling
of Poems more while you wait.
(it’s currently available
by Billy Collins.
with no wait!)
With a full belly and a desire to kick back and relax,
As you arrive home, you yearn for a good book, and your mind goes to something entertaining.
feel the familiar stab of anxiety at wading through all
the books in the world. Luckily, you remember that
the library provides a number of speciality services
that might help.
Or, perhaps checking
out an ebook on
Maybe a comedy mindfulness techniques
film from Kanopy? could guide you to a
If you decide If you decide to restful sleep.
to request a call LitLine, listen
Personalized Reading to both the short
List, be sure to also story/essay and As you turn in for the night, you are reminded just how
check out an online the poem for the many ways you can read, learn and explore throughout
book club! full experience. the day, using only your Denver Public Library card.
So now the only question is...WHAT TO DO TOMORROW?Getting Started
with Genealogy
Research from Home
Laura Ruttam Senturia, Archivist Librarian, in consultation
with James Jeffrey, Genealogy Collection Specialist
If you’ve enjoyed any of the many times like these—online using your These resources are all available using
genealogy television shows that have Denver Public Library card (if you three large primary resource databases
become popular in the past decade, don’t have a library card and live in we recommend to researchers:
you undoubtedly have been amazed Colorado, you can apply for one at
at the mysteries and secrets they denverlibrary.org). ncestry Library Edition:
A
uncover. The details of celebrities’ available from home with a
heritages revealed in these shows RESEARCH TOOLS library card during the duration
may spark curiosity about your Many of the online resources offered of our current closure, and
own family story. Who were your through the library’s Western History onsite at all branches when we
people? Were they successful? Where and Genealogy department’s website open again
did they live and work, and what (history.denverlibrary.org) are
language(s) did they speak? Did they helpful for getting you started and M
yHeritage: always available
have a sense of humor? Were they keeping you going in your research. from home with a library card
pirates? (No? Just me?) Genealogists, from professionals
to the armchair variety, likely all F
amilysearch.org: a free web
In the thralls of genealogy know about digital access to the U.S. database accessible through
entertainment, most of us have Census and newspaper obituaries. creating a private profile
paused to wonder, but then
never found the right moment to But did you know you can also find Within these three resources, you
investigate further. You may have digital records running the gamut will find the bulk of indexed “primary
assumed that your ancestors were from births in Mexico from the 1860s source material” that is available.
not documented because of their and Philippine deaths from the Primary source records—documents
country of origin, the color of their 1720s, to Freedmen’s Bureau records that were created at the time a life
skin, their religious background, or documenting former enslaved event actually happened—are most
their socio-economic standing. Americans, and Lithuanian internal often collected and maintained
passports between 1919 and 1940? by government entities. They are
We all have a familial past, and while This is but a small and very random generally more reliable than family
it is true that these histories are sampling of the sorts of records out trees you might find online created
better mapped for some people than there, but they go to show you don’t by individuals, with sometimes
for others, you might be surprised have to have Mayflower ancestors to fallible memories. (Did Aunt Lola die
at the many things you can find, start mapping your family tree. in 1912 or 1913? I forget. Let’s just go
either in person at the library, or—in with 1913…)If your family has been lucky to count As far as forming your strategy, point, and so on and so forth. When
Colorado home for many years, the it is best to decide in advance in doubt, all of our “big three” sources
Western History and Genealogy which relative you want to begin have simple catalogs, which are
website also offers a number of researching, and exactly what you searchable listings of their holdings.
additional tools. These include, but want to know about them. To use a These are particularly useful for
are not limited to: local obituary and silly analogy, you wouldn’t search pinpointing records by type or
marriage indexes, property records, for pasta in the produce section! The country of origin.
cemetery and mortuary listings, same principle applies here: search for
online photographs, tailored research information in the record sets where Genealogy research often depends
guides, and many other sources of that type of information is stored. on trial and error, and subsequent
local information. Also on our site, attempts to verify the uncertain trail
we offer a primer on beginning In addition, while it’s tempting to you are following. Remember: if you
genealogy that is helpful for those begin your sleuthing with your get stuck, our librarians are available
just getting started. great-great-great grandparents, via email to help direct you to the
it’s actually better to start with the next step.
For those of you tracing African people closest to you in time, about
American or Hispanic roots, you will whom you know the most. Write Until we are able to meet again at
also want to reference our research down what you know is true about the physical library, we hope that
guides for these communities, one relation, then decide what these digital resources and advice will
linked from the aforementioned more you want to find about them. help you on your journey to find your
Western History and Genealogy After you have answered all of your ancestors. And please let us know if
page. If you are interested in tips questions, you work backwards from you turn up any pirates along the way!
on researching particular naming there, using the clues you collect
conventions, cultural practices that along the way. Whether you’re searching for
might impact genealogy research, ancestors far afield or closer to
or other contextual background to The best resource to begin all of this home, you’ll find all of the resources
help you find ancestors from other work may depend on each person’s mentioned on our Genealogy
countries and specific cultures, the life story. However, for folks whose research webpage and our research
FamilySearch.com website offers families have been in the U.S. since guide page.
many helpful guides covering just 1940, that year’s census on Ancestry
this sort of information. would be the best place to begin. You may also reach our staff at
Alternatively, if your family was in history@denverlibrary.org
RESEARCH ADVICE Mexico in 1930, the 1930 Mexican Happy Researching!
census would be the best starting
Turning for a moment from research
tools to research advice, we generally
caution against running only broad
“search all” forays in the databases.
While it can be fun initially to
randomly poke around to see what
surprises turn up, ultimately this is a
bit like seeking a needle in a haystack
by randomly raking in a pitchfork.
It is easy to get similarly-named
relatives confused, or to
latch onto doppelgangers who have
some matching details with your
relatives, but ultimately end up
being unrelated.
Ideally, for efficient and accurate
genealogy research, you will need to
plan a strategy and take notes. For
help in the note-keeping process,
the Ancestry Library Edition
database offers several versions
of downloadable charts and forms
that allow you to record everyone’s
details and relationships.Explore the
Wonders of
Personalized
Service
Dodie Ownes, Librarian
Readers are as unique as the books they already like, and what formats Or a response could encourage a
available to them at the Denver Public might work best for the customer reader to get deeper into DPL’s
Library. But often, selecting books (eBooks, audiobooks, etc.). The rest, collection, as one requester wrote:
for yourself, or your children, can be the real art, comes from readers’ “Your staff has recommended titles
daunting, especially now, when you advisors’ cumulative experience that I would never have picked
cannot visit and browse for yourself. reading, listening to, watching and up. Books that taught me a lot
Whether open or closed, Denver absorbing what is happening in the about remote places and people
Public Library has developed a team publishing world and being able to experiencing life struggles.”
of dedicated staff, called Readers’ translate that into meaningful and
Advisors, who expertly pair readers thoughtful recommendations. Personalized reading lists help
with selections from DPL’s collection DPL fulfill its mission to welcome
to take the stress out of making a Filling out the Personalized Reading customers and help them explore and
perfect pick. List form may seem more suited connect, providing an experience with
to a machine algorithm than a a librarian in an online environment.
The process is simple- submit an person, which delights many of our This service has grown steadily in
online personalized reading list customers. “I was so surprised and popularity, with advisors completing
request, and advisors use your happy to find a thorough response 871 adult requests and 426 childrens
preferences to produce an age- (written by a human no less!) to my and young adult requests in 2019,
appropriate list of titles to match your request,” responded an energized recommending thousands of titles to
reading or listening needs. But while reader. Caregivers looking for help requesters in English and Spanish.
the process is simple, the magic is in finding great books that match their During the COVID-19 closure, it is
the thought and preparation that goes young readers interests and reading even more important to be able
into each customer’s personalized list. level are grateful for the service as to connect with customers, and
well. “This list is amazing! I love all of to connect customers to engaging
Readers’ Advisors utilize a toolkit that these book recommendations, with no materials in DPL’s collection. With a
includes the NoveList Plus database, repeats from anything my daughter is turnaround time of less than a week,
in-house training, professional currently reading. Love this service!” and direct links to the library catalog
reviews and bookseller newsletters to provided, the personalized reading
make recommendations. But, advisors Sometimes suggested titles may list service is uniquely positioned to
also employ detailed considerations nudge customers in new directions, serve customers of all ages, at any
based on what customers share in whether that means offering a time. Request a list today and see
their like and dislike categories- things graphic novel to someone who has how readers’ advisors can guide you
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