by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 6, 2025 | GoWYLD, Homepage
January 5 marked the one hundredth anniversary of an important day in Wyoming and U.S. history. On January 5, 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated as Wyoming’s governor–the first female governor in the history of the United States. Read more about...
by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 3, 2025 | GoWYLD, Homepage
January 3 is J.R.R. Tolkien Day! This prolific author of poetry and high fantasy is most famous for his works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which transport readers to the fictional world of Middle Earth to join hobbits, wizards, elves, dwarves,...
by Christi Weinzierl | Jan 2, 2025 | GoWYLD, Homepage
January 2 is National Science Fiction Day, which also happens to coincide with the birthday of famous science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov. Whether you are looking for your next great science fiction read or wanting to venture into the genre for the first time for the...
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 31, 2024 | Homepage, WSL News
The Wyoming State Library will be closed Wednesday, January 1, for New Year’s Day. We will be open during our regular hours on Thursday, January 2. Happy New Year from the Wyoming State Library! See you in 2025!
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 31, 2024 | Homepage, WSL News
The December Outrider from the Wyoming State Library is hot off the press! Find out all about what’s going on in the Wyoming library community and beyond, including news, celebrations, events, and job postings from around the state. Subscribe today, and we’ll...
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 27, 2024 | GoWYLD, Homepage
With 2024 ending and 2025 beginning next week, many folks are contemplating changes they would like to make in the new year or setting goals they would like to achieve by this time next year. Why not make a resolution to learn something new with GoWYLD? With subject...
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 26, 2024 | GoWYLD, Homepage
December 26 is National Thank You Card Day, a holiday of which the official origin is unknown, but fairly easy to infer. Being the day after Christmas, we can safely assume it has something to do with social conventions dictating that we should send a thank you card...
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 24, 2024 | Homepage, People News
Have People News at your library? Send it to Christi Weinzierl at christi.weinzierl1@wyo.org. Travis Pollok recently celebrated his tenth anniversary with the Wyoming State Library and the State of Wyoming’s Administration and Information agency. “I feel...
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 23, 2024 | Homepage, WSL Digital Collections Suite, WSL News
The Wyoming State Library will be closed Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas Day holiday. We will re-open on Thursday, December 26. Wondering what the perfect holiday decor is for Wyoming? We present to you the “Artificial Christmas Tree and Antler Apparatus”...
by Christi Weinzierl | Dec 23, 2024 | Homepage, WSL Digital Collections Suite
The holiday season is upon us and there is no better time to take a look back at Wyoming’s holiday history! The earliest mention of the jolly man in red appeared in the Christmas Eve issue of The Cheyenne Leader back in 1868 in a poem entitled Owed to Christmas...
