by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 12, 2022 | WSL News
The Wyoming State Library will be closed Monday, January 17, for Martin Luther King Jr./Equality Day. We will be open our normal hours again on Tuesday, January 18. From our Wyoming Legislation database, we find that in 1990, the Wyoming State Legislature designated...
by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 11, 2022 | WSL News
On Monday, the Wyoming State Library welcomed Greg Mosshammer to our staff as Marketing Lead. He’ll be in charge of our website and graphic design and will be the point person for marketing library resources and services. Greg is a graduate of Purdue University in...
by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 9, 2022 | Calendar
Free, online, continuing education events for the week of January 10 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 | Jan 7, 2022 | Schools
Our partners at WyoCAN have alerted us to a resource school librarians may be interested in – free games to teach cybersecurity concepts to K-12 students. The Center for Infrastructure Assurance & Security (CIAS) has developed three cybersecurity card games...
by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 6, 2022 | WLA
The 2022 Wyoming Library Association legislative reception will be held on Thursday, February 17, at the Wyoming State Library, 2800 Central Ave. in Cheyenne, beginning at 5:30 p.m. The event will be preceded by a legislative update at 5 p.m. Library directors,...
by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 6, 2022 | People News
Have People News at your library? Send it to Susan Mark at susan.mark@wyo.gov. Jeff Collins is leaving the Laramie County Library System to become the Director of the Davenport (Iowa) Public Library in Iowa. Jeff has been the Deputy Director of Public Service at LCLS...
by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 5, 2022 | Wyoming Library News
Weston County residents can try out a new hobby in the new year — astronomy! Thanks to Dan and Janet Pullen and the Island County Astronomical Society of Washington, the Weston County Library added an Orion Starblast telescope to their offerings. Library patrons can...
by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 5, 2022 | Training
In addition to the live webinars in our training calendar, each month we try to pick some videos out there that you can watch “At Your Leisure.” These on-demand offerings caught our attention for January. Open at Home: School Librarians as Instructional Leaders...
by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 4, 2022 | Articles and Information
UW LibGuide Provides Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Resources The University of Wyoming has created LibGuide covering DEI and accessibility resources, organized by subject. While some resources are only available to UW students and faculty, many are...
by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 3, 2022 | Grants and Awards
NEH Public Humanities Projects Grants DEADLINE: January 12, 2022 The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to...
