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The Garfield County Public Library District uses cookies to verify that you are an authorized user in order to allow access to licensed library resources, to customize web pages for your use, to help make our site more useful to visitors and to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use.

Some of the applications or external sites that you may link to from our pages, devices or equipment also use cookies. For more information on the use of cookies by each service please refer to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policies for the services you use. You may set the preferences in your web browser to refuse cookies or to tell you when a cookie is being sent. This may result in an inability to access some library services from computers outside the library.