by Christi Weinzierl | Oct 20, 2022 | GoWYLD
October is Health Literacy Month, and you can find several consumer health resources listed under Health & Medicine on GoWYLD.net. One, MedlinePlus, provided by the National Library of Medicine, makes up-to-date consumer health information easy to access and easy...
by Christi Weinzierl | Oct 19, 2022 | Wyoming Library News
Children ages 5 and under living in Natrona County are now eligible to receive free books, thanks to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and the Natrona County Library’s new affiliation with the global program. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting...
by Christi Weinzierl | Oct 18, 2022 | Grants and Awards
The American Library Association’s (ALA) Public Programs Office currently has two great traveling exhibitions open for applications from public libraries: World on the Move and Exploring Human Origins. Questions about either exhibition may be directed to Hannah Arata...
by Christi Weinzierl | Oct 17, 2022 | Schools, Youth Services
Teens and tweens, get your pens ready! The Wyoming Center for the Book at Wyoming Humanities invites students in grades 4-12 to enter Letters About Literature, a statewide writing competition. Guidelines and entry forms can be found at...
by Christi Weinzierl | Oct 17, 2022 | WSL News
Just a little more than a week away! On Tuesday, October 25, the state’s libraries will host Wyoming Snapshot Day 2022, an event highlighting the importance of libraries to the state. Libraries will collect photos, videos, and comments that show their importance to...
by Christi Weinzierl | Oct 16, 2022 | Calendar
Free, online, continuing education events for the week of October 17 from the Wyoming State Library Training Calendar. Descriptions and links are below. You can subscribe and view the events in your calendar software, or you can find all the events at...
by Christi Weinzierl | Oct 14, 2022 | WSL News
A new discovery tool is coming to the Wyoming State Library’s online catalog, WYLDcat. Learn about the new features that will be available to staff and patrons in this recorded webinar conducted by ByWater Solutions. One of the foremost issues identified by the 2020...
by Christi Weinzierl | Oct 14, 2022 | GoWYLD
Dictionary Day is October 16 in honor of Noah Webster’s birthday (October 16, 1758). Did you know that in Britannica you can double click on a word and the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition pops up? Whether you are in Britannica-Academic, Britannica-Library, or...
by Christi Weinzierl | Oct 13, 2022 | Schools, Youth Services
Wyoming middle and high school classrooms or homeschoolers are encouraged to create new video content promoting public cybersecurity awareness for the Cyber-in-a-Box library program. The Cyber-in-a-Box School Video Challenge offers teachers (or parent sponsors) $50...
by Christi Weinzierl | Oct 13, 2022 | Schools, Youth Services
The Young Authors Contest, a well-known and loved writing competition for Wyoming K-12 students, will have a kick-off event on November 1, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. MDT. Join the Wyoming State Literacy Association (WSLA) for a live, virtual presentation with this link, or...
