Multicultural Children’s Book Day in GoWYLD

Today is Multicultural Children’s Book Day! This event focuses on the amazing children’s books available that celebrate diversity. Did you know you can locate multicultural children’s books using GoWYLD.net? Both Novelist Plus and Books & Authors offer book...

Idioms and National Geographic Virtual Library

Think National Geographic is just magazines? It is so much more! From GoWYLD.net, you have access to National Geographic Virtual Library. This resource is free to every Wyoming resident using your public or community college library card. Here you will find the...

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...