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Teaching Resources for Letters About Literature
Wyoming students in grades 4-12 are invited to read, be inspired, and write back to the author (living or dead) of a book that changed their lives. The 2020 Wyoming Letters...
Free Continuing Education Events for the Week of October 21
Free, online, continuing education events for the week of October 21 from the Wyoming State Library Training Calendar. Descriptions are below. You can subscribe and view the...
More Than 100,000 Sign Petition Against eBooks Embargo
You may have heard news lately about library ebook lending. Beginning November 1, 2019, Macmillan Publishers plans to restrict library access to ebooks. The publisher will...
National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair
https://youtu.be/o3ET1ta6OCU Every year, the National Archives hosts a free, virtual Genealogy Fair via live webcast on YouTube. The sessions offer family history research...
Innovations for School Libraries
Found in the Big Deal Media K-12 Technology newsletter Guide for Conversing with Parents About Learning with Technology Your Edtech Conversation Guide, a free downloadable...
People News
Megan Benfield joined the Central Wyoming College Library/Academic Resource Center on September 3 as Librarian - Resource Management. She graduated in 2017 from Adams State...
Building a Better Book
From UW News By Shannon Smith, former University of Wyoming Library Specialist In January, University of Wyoming Libraries, in collaboration with the UW Lab School, was...
Spread the Word! Letters About Literature Opens Soon
All ages PDF | JPG Grades 4-6 PDF | JPG Grades 7-8 PDF | JPG Grades 9-12 PDF | JPG Wyoming students in grades 4-12 are invited to read, be inspired, and write back to the...
Creepy Patents for Halloween
Halloween is right around the corner, so this month the Wyoming State Library dug deep into the final resting place for U.S. Patents — the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...
An Unexpected Little Library
By Karen Jean Funk Washakie County Library Director From time to time a librarian needs to take a day off from work. The need is there to use some vacation time, take...
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