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Reports on efforts to add computer resources to rural libraries in Colorado. Reasons for the installation of computers in Colorado rural libraries; Use of Application Service Provider (ASP) technology. INSET: Keeping It Public.

The article reports on the soft opening of satellite branch of Colorado's Aurora Public Library (APL) inside a local Kmart Corp. chain store on June 4, 2013. It says that the Kmart location functions as a public computing center. Betsy Baxendale, library supervisor for the north region of APL, states that the location drew 763 visitors in the first month of its operation. It adds that the location was a result of an initiative to increase public access to the Internet and computers.

Reports that members of the Longmont Citizens for Justice and Democracy in Colorado organized a 'subversive book checkout' at the Longmont Public Library in a protest against the USA PATRIOT Act. Details of the Act, which gives the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation powers to investigate library patrons' reading and web surfing records; 'Subversive books' that the protestors took out, including a guidebook to nuclear reactors; Number of people who participated in the march; Actions of library staff at the Santa Cruz Public Library in California in response to the Patriot Act.

Reports on an editorial which appeared in the `Colorado Springs Gazette,' questioning the notion of the free public library. Suggestion that the library charge a fee for checking out books; Response from readers.

Focuses on an episode of 'Dr. Laura' in which Dr. Laura Schlessinger chided libraries that allow children to use the Internet without filtration. Her focus on the Denver Public Library in Colorado; Details of the show; Comments of Rick Ashton, director of the Denver Public Library.

Reports on the ordinance passed in Englewood, Colorado, that specifies that library employees have the permission to detain library users and require them to empty pockets and packages if suspected of stealing library property.