by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 24, 2020 | Articles and Information
Reposted and adapted from the Indiana State Library Like most things in 2020, the National Book Festival looks nothing like it has in the past. Last year, tens of thousands of attendees crammed themselves into long lines to meet their favorite authors. They joined...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 23, 2020 | Articles and Information
Reposted from Library Research Service Every day we assess the world around us. We ask ourselves whether that decision we made was a good idea, what makes that person trustworthy, why we should or should not change something. We form a question in our head, collect...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 23, 2020 | WSL News
We’d like to send a reminder out to all libraries and their employees to check the Wyoming Libraries Directory to make sure your listing is current. The Directory is a resource the Wyoming State Library provides to help librarians connect and to help patrons find...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 22, 2020 | WSL News
Today is National Voter Registration Day, a nonpartisan, unofficial holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of September. With all the interest in this year’s election, the role of libraries as reliable sources of information about voting is more important than ever....
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 21, 2020 | WSL News
Find a wrap-up of the latest in Wyoming library news in the September 2020 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...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 21, 2020 | Calendar
Free, online, continuing education events for the week of September 21 from the Wyoming State Library Training Calendar. Descriptions are below. You can subscribe and view the events in your calendar software, or you can find all the events...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 19, 2020 | WSL News
We sat down with Cheryl O’Brien, our 2020 Wyoming Great Read author to discuss her book, World War II POW Camps of Wyoming. Her book was selected for the Discover Great Places through Reading list as part of Wyoming’s involvement in the 20th Annual Library of...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 18, 2020 | WSL News
“Visions of Warriors” Feature Documentary from Humanist Films, LLC on Vimeo. The producers of the “Visions of Warriors” documentary would like to offer free virtual screenings of the film to libraries and their patrons. In addition to the film,...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 17, 2020 | WSL News
The Creative Aging in Wyoming Public Libraries Project, developed in partnership between the Wyoming Arts Council, the Wyoming State Library, and Lifetime Arts, now includes a $150,000 seed grant program to continue support of arts education programming for older...
by Christi Weinzierl | Sep 17, 2020 | WSL News
On September 17, 1787 thirty-nine men signed the Constitution of the United States in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The text was written on four sheets of parchment measuring approximately 28 ¾ inches by 23 ⅝ inches. As one of the country’s founding documents, it...
