Library Favorites❤️: Book Awards, Local News & Helpful Links 🔗
Explore reading awards, trusted local news, and practical online tools for everyday life. These links are curated for all ages and updated as we find great new resources.
📚 Book Awards & Notable Reading Lists
Colorado favorites plus well-known national awards for kids, teens, and adults.
🏔️ Colorado Book Awards
Outstanding books by Colorado authors, illustrators, and publishers.
Visit Colorado Book Awards →🧒 Colorado Children’s Book Award
Colorado kids vote for their favorite books (picture book + junior novel).
Visit CCBA →🧑🎓 Colorado Blue Spruce Award (YA)
Teen-selected Colorado award list and reading program.
Visit Blue Spruce Award →🏅 Newbery & Caldecott (Kids)
Classic U.S. awards for outstanding children’s books and illustrations.
Browse ALA Awards →🏆 Pulitzer Prize (Books)
Major U.S. awards for fiction, history, biography, poetry, and more.
See Pulitzer Book Winners →🏆 National Book Awards
Major U.S. awards for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, YA, and more.
Visit National Book Awards →📰 Local & Regional News
Reliable local sources and official updates.
🗞️ San Miguel Basin Forum
Local reporting for Nucla, Naturita, Norwood, and surrounding communities.
Visit Basin Forum →📣 Montrose County Alerts (Official)
Meeting notices, closures, press releases, and county updates.
View County Alerts →🌦️ KJCT News 8 (Grand Junction)
Regional news and weather coverage for Western Colorado.
Visit KJCT 8 →🧾 Planning, Seniors & Safety
Practical tools people ask for all the time.
🧾 FreeWill (Free Online Will Builder)
Create a basic will and document your wishes online.
Start a Will →🫶 Colorado Advance Care Planning
Planning ahead for medical decisions and forms (state information).
View State Info →🧓 BenefitsCheckUp
Find benefit programs that may help with food, utilities, medicine, and more.
Use BenefitsCheckUp →🔐 IdentityTheft.gov
Step-by-step help for reporting and recovering from identity theft.
Go to IdentityTheft.gov →💻 DigitalLearn.org
Free digital skill courses created for library learners.
Visit DigitalLearn →Need help using any of these sites (or printing forms)? Ask a library staff member — we’re happy to help.