Today is the final day of September, and it’s also exactly one week before Wyoming Snapshot Day 2025—October 7!The Wyoming State Library can’t wait to see all of your awesome photos and read all of your amazing patron comments! Most of all, we are excited to share them and promote all of the important work you do and the valuable impact you all have on your communities. A lot of information is available on the Wyoming Snapshot Day website, which is being updated frequently in anticipation of this year’s event. If you don’t find what you need, please let me know, and I’ll make sure the item you are looking for is updated as soon as possible.
For your reference, Here are the Top Ten Most Important Things to Remember as the big day approaches:
1. Please e-mail your photos as attachments to christi.weinzierl1@wyo.gov.
2. Please send non-live photos. We are unable to use live photos. If live photos are sent, we will request you resend them in a non-live format.
3. Please send unformatted photos that free of library branding, etc. Among other projects throughout the year to promote and celebrate our Wyoming libraries, the Wyoming State Library utilizes your photos, along with patron and staff comments and testimonials, to create a slideshow presentation for the annual Wyoming Libraries Legislative Reception. Any borders, captions, branding, etc. will be cropped out of the photos in order to create a uniform and cohesive presentation including slides for each county. Please do not spend time doing fancy things with the photos; it makes them much more difficult to use and share. but let us do the heavy lifting. Send us your best images, and we’ll make sure they look great in the presentation and that your library receives credit for your hard work!
4. In the past, it was requested that only horizontal photos be sent, however, both vertical and horizontal photos are fine. We are glad to accept either orientation of photo, however, we may need to crop or resize photos to help them fit into the Legislative Reception presentation. Don’t worry about which way you hold your camera or phone; just take fun photos of the great things happening at your library!
5. The best and most useful photos we receive from our amazing Wyoming libraries are ones that depict the “everyday awesome” that happens at our libraries every single day. Photos with specifically seasonal elements or of specifically seasonal events, although just as amazing, are somewhat limited in their use throughout the year. Wyoming Snapshot Day was moved to earlier in the month of October to help you capture more of the year-round joy, learning, and fun that happen in your libraries each day, rather than focusing on a specific season or holiday. Also, there is NO need to plan a special event for Wyoming Snapshot Day. In fact, please don’t! Instead, capture the great things happening at your library; these great things happen every single day!!!
6. Feel free to share photos of both patrons and staff spanning all age groups, etc. Wyomingites come in all shapes, sizes, ages, ability-levels, etc., and we want to include as much of your library’s diversity as possible. If you are wondering if we want a photo, the answer is probably a resounding “YES!” If, for some reason, it is not possible to send photos of patrons for any reason, feel free to send us photos of your library facility or spaces within it.
7. Please send comments and/or testimonials typed in a Word document or a Google doc. We are unable to use photos of comments, testimonials, etc., as the handwriting is hard to read in photos, and we want to make sure we are conveying the correct and intended messages.
8. Feel free to share as many or as few photos and comments as you are able to or would like to. We know you are all busy making library magic happen for your patrons and communities, so if you only have time to snap a few quick photos or record a couple of patron comments, that’s totally fine! If you send us oodles of photos and lots of comments, that’s awesome, too. Please do what is feasible for your library’s and your library’s staff’s unique situations. If you are a library that is currently under construction, photos including this are perfectly acceptable and welcomed! We are all about keeping it real—show us (and the rest of the Wyoming library community, our stakeholders, etc.) your current reality!
9. If Tuesday, October 7, is not a good day for your library to participate, feel free to submit photos and comments later on in the week. We understand that some Wyoming libraries have days or times they are closed. If your library is closed on Tuesdays, feel free to send us photos or comments on Wednesday. We will likely be continuing to process the massive amounts of content we receive well into the next day, so no worries if you submit your photos or comments later on in the week!
10. Most importantly, we appreciate all the photos, comments, and testimonials you send, and we look forward to sharing them! Thank you so much for your help!!! If you have any questions regarding Snapshot Day beforehand or the day of, feel free to contact Christi Weinzierl via email (christi.weinzierl1@wyo.gov) or by calling (307) 777-5919.
She will be happy to help you with any issues, answer any questions, or provide you with any helpful information that she can!
Also, if you picked up a “WYLD About Wyoming Libraries” board at the WLA Conference last week, feel free to use the board for photos during Wyoming Snapshot Day. Graphics for creating your own board will be added to the Wyoming Snapshot Day website very soon! (We will be using our board to post fun photos next Tuesday of our staff and patrons, too!)Again, thank you for your participation!!! We hope you are as excited for Wyoming Snapshot Day as we are!