January 2021 Outrider Now Available

Find a wrap-up of the latest in Wyoming library news in the January 2021 Outrider newsletter from the Wyoming State Library. Subscribe today, and we’ll send the Outrider straight to your email inbox each month. You can also see past issues. Do you know any library...

Leadership Group Starts Mentorship Program

The Wyoming Library Association has a number of interest groups. One of the youngest is LEAD (Leadership Excellence and Development), formed in 2012. Starting in 2017, LEAD members began facilitating and sponsoring workshops at WLA Conferences about leadership...

Two Wyoming Museums Join DPLA

The Brinton Museum and Meeteetse Museums recently became new partners in the Plains to Peaks Collective (PPC), a hub of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). These two museums contributed nearly 7,000 items to this searchable online collection of more than 41...

Celebrating Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday

Today, January 19, we celebrate the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, an editor, writer and poet, who wrote touching lyrics to the macabre. Most known for poems such as The Raven and short stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum, he also wrote The conchologist’s...