Newsletters and Reports

Newsletters and Reports

Print Publications

Annual Reports

Dispatch Annual Report2024 cover for website

The Community Library’s fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30.

Library Dispatch

Twice a year, the Library prints a newsletter to highlight upcoming events and special program initiatives as well as new resources and services.

Electronic Newsletters

Monthly Liaison: Stories from The Stacks

Each month, the Library sends an e-newsletter with staff essays, program insights, and donor recognition.
View the 2022-23 Liaison Archive here.

Weekly Library Program eNews

Each Monday, the Library sends an e-newsletter previewing upcoming events, current exhibits, children’s programs, operational updates, and book recommendations.
View the Library Program eNews Archive here.

  • December 23, 2024: Holiday closures, Earth: A Year in Orbit film screening, Holiday Stories at Sun Valley Lodge, and more. Plus book recommendations…
  • December 16, 2024: Undertow: An Idaho-Inspired Dance, Pop Up and Pop Into the Museum, Holiday Stories at Sun Valley Lodge, The 23rd Hero author event, Teen Tuesdays, and more. Plus book recommendations…
  • December 9, 2024: December 13 Closures, Winter Read Revealed: Four Treasures of the Sky, Tiny Art Foyer Exhibit, Salmon Moon with Julie Weston, Teen Tuesdays, Make a Frosted Ice Cream Cone Tree, and more. Plus book recommendations…
  • December 2, 2024: Collecting Art with Judith Kindler, “Atomic Habits” book discussion, Sensory Time: Winter, and more. Plus book recommendations.
  • November 25, 2024: Thanksgiving closures, AI Now and in the Future, Hemingway House online database, Let’s Build, Digital Collections, and more. Plus book recommendations…
  • November 18, 2024: Ernest Hemingway’s Best Friend, Family Night: Beads, donuts, and cider, Library Lab: LEGO Racers, and more. Plus book recommendations…
  • November 11, 2024: PBS Arts: “SARA” and “Leonardo da Vinci”, Fire on the Mountain, No-Bake Pumpkin Pie, and more. Plus book recommendations…
  • November 4, 2024: An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Adam Johnson, Ski Opening at the Gold Mine stores, Tiny Art Show Reception, Paint Club, Fraud and Senior Financial Exploitation Prevention, language classes, Tech Help, and more. Plus book recommendations…
  • October 28, 2024: Without Exceptions with Pam Houston, Let’s Build!, Beginning Knitting, Sensory Time/Dinosaurs for toddlers, Ketchum Remote Collective Workspace, and more. Plus book recommendations…
  • October 21, 2024: Open House at the Wood River Museum, Kenneth Lewis Lecture on Democracy: Echoes of Integrity, Library Lab: Clay Circuit Monsters, language classes, writing, music, and more, plus book recommendations…
  • October 14, 2024: Young Latinos Leaders Panel, G-DOG Film Screening, Sewing Club, Halloween Sales event at the Gold Mine, Middle Grade Book Club, and more, plus book recommendations…
  • October 7, 2024: Idaho’s Open Primary & RCV Panel, Open House at the Wood River Museum, Dance Dialogues, writing workshops, language classes, tech help, and more, plus book recommendations.
  • September 30, 2024: “Sheep Clips” interactive audio exhibit, Playwright Max Posner, Sensory Hour for toddlers, Book Club: North Woods, Gold Mine Fall/Winter Opening, and more, plus book recommendations… 
  • September 23, 2024: Mythbusting Immigration, Teen Taste Test: Potato Chips, End-of-Life Planning, the Summer Clearance Sale at Gold Mine Thrift, languages classes, and more, plus book recommendations… 
  • September 16, 2024: Blaine County Housing Needs, Recovery is a Family Affair, Library Lab: littleBits, English Language Learning, and more, plus book recommendations… 
  • September 9, 2024: Wolverines in Winter, Sewing Club, Miracle of the Mind: Brain-Body Connection, Let’s Build, Genealogy Club, Tech Help, and more, plus book recommendations…
  • September 2, 2024: Labor Day Closure, Get a Library Card Month begins, Ernest Hemingway Seminar, Book Grab & Pizza, Adult Summer Reads ends, and more, plus book recommendations…
  • August 26, 2024: Beyond the Headlines with Aliza Pressman, film screenings of Chief Tendoy and In Good Faith, Big Mountains and Deep Canyons field trip, Paws to Read, Mining for Gems, and more. Plus book recommendations!
  • August 19, 1024: Legacy Lost with Barbara Hilyer, Churchill and Ireland with Lee Pollock, Beaded Backpack Buddies, Paws to Read, and more, plus book recommendations…
  • August 12, 2024: Boss Lady with Asha Youmans and local author Alli Frank, the Library’s summer open house: Book around the Block!, Paws to Read with Wynslow, the dog, and so much more. Plus get book recommendations…
  • August 5, 2024: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Europa, Day Trip to the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival, Family Movie, Book Club, Upbeat with Alasdair, plus book recommendations and more.
  • July 29, 2024: Hemingway Distinguished Lecture with US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, Upbeat with Alasdair, Story Time: Ocean, Sewing Club, and many more events. Plus book recommendations.
  • July 22, 2024: John Vaillant, Hermione: The Freedom Frigate with Marc Onetto, the kids and teens Summer Reading Award Party, Preserving Family Recipes, plus book recommendations and more…
  • July 15, 2024: Judy Blume, Paws to Read with Wynslow, SV Jewish Film Festival, Brown Bag Poetry featuring the work of Joy Harjo, plus book recommendations and more…
  • July 8, 2024: Olympics Exhibit/Opening Reception “Summer Games |Local Heroes,” SINK/RISE with Photographer Nick Brandt, SV Jewish Film Festival screening of Remembering Gene Wilder, Star Lab Planetarium, plus book recommendations and more…
  • July 1, 2024: July 4th closures, Music in the Dark, and Solar Oven S’mores, plus book recommendations and more…
  • June 24, 2024: Saving Lives in Sub-Saharan Africa, Family Move: Migration, Sewing Club, Tech Help, Brown Bag Poetry, plus book recommendations and more…
  • June 17, 2024: Juneteenth closures, The Crick with Jim Mangan and Judith Freeman, Drop-in Family Games, plus book recommendations and more…
  • June 10, 2024: Drop-in Straws & Connectors, the Genealogy Workshop, Tech Help Desk, Paws to Read, Drop-in Family Games, plus book recommendations and more…
  • June 3, 2024: Craters of the Moon Centennial Celebration, Pride in the Archives, Miracle of the Mind, Book Club, Bilingual Story Time, plus book recommendations and more…
  • May 27, 2024: Memorial Day closure, Kids/YA Summer Reading kicks off, “Homelessness is a Housing Problem,” “Pride in the Archives,” Finding Your Center” poetry workshop, plus book recommendations and more…
  • May 20, 2024: Reading of “Wilma” at The Spot, Gold Mine Spring/Summer Opening, Read It & Eat! Book Club, plus book recommendations and more…
  • May 13, 2024: To Taste Life Twice writing seminar, StoryWalk, Gold Mine Winter Clearance Sale, Family Games, the Latest in Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research, plus book recommendations and more…
  • May 6, 2024: Lava Ridge Wind Project panel discussion, It’s Her Story: Sacajawea with Randy’L Teton, Tween/Teen Art Lab, plus book recommendations and more…
  • April 29, 2024: Idaho Gives, Let’s Build! for Kids, language learning, plus book recommendations and more.
  • April 22, 2024: “A New Winter” with Sofía Jaramillo, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, Paws to Read, Paint Club, Tech Help, and more, plus book recommendations and more.
  • April 15, 2024: Idaho Centennial Trail, Collage Poetry Workshop, a Peep Tree competition in Children’s, Sewing Club, plus book recommendations and more.
  • April 8, 2024: National Library Week, Peaks & Personal Growth, and Library closures, plus book recommendations and more.
  • April 1, 2024: Book Club for Tom Lake, Electrify the Wood River Valley, The Read It and Eat Middle Grade Book Club, plus book recommendations and more.
  • March 25, 2024: Hemingway and Skiing with John Lundin, drop-in crafts for Spring Break, Family Games, “Big Two-Hearted River” Class with Austin Smith, plus book recommendations and more.
  • March 18, 2024: “In True Face” with former CIA spy Jonna Mendez, Idaho’s Hidden Gems on Idaho Experience, Tech Help, Paint Club, book recommendations, and more.
  • March 11, 2024: A Tiny Beautiful Evening with Cheryl Strayed, the Winter Read Closing Party, Wildlife Migration and Status in the Valley, Genealogy Workshop, Sewing Club, book recommendations and more…
  • March 4, 2024: Upbeat with Alasdair: Why Brahms?, Gatsby Remixed, and so much more…
  • February 26, 2024: SV Film Festival Shop Talks, Bilingual Story Time, and so much more…
  • February 19, 2024: Presidents Day closures, “When Books Went to War,” Paws to Read with Wynslow, and so much more…
  • February 12, 2024: Day of Remembrance event and exhibit, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok, StoryWalk, and so much more…
  • February 5, 2024: Valuing Water to Survive Climate Change, Paint Club, Junior, “Fargo” movie discussion, “Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” book club, as well as book reviews and more.
  • January 29, 2024: Winter Read Kickoff, Knit Together, Bilingual Story Time, Make It at the Museum, Creative Writing – plus book recommendations and so much more…
  • January 22, 2024: Intro to Avalanches, Community Mental Health, Read It & Eat Book Club, and so much more…
  • January 15, 2024: MLK, Jr. Holiday, The Latest Science on the Big Wood River, Mock Caldecott Award, SVJr. Film Workshop, language learning, and so much more…
  • January 8, 2024: “Disinformation, Discord, and Story,” Paws to Read, Read It and Eat Book Club, Make It at the Museum, and so much more…
  • January 1, 1024: The Great Gatsby Winter Read, “A Tree of Life” Film Screening, Bilingual Story Time, Make It at The Museum, Nature Journaling, and so much more…

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