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Cherish the Beauty
By Diana Tellez-Muñoz, Museum Operations and Communications Intern
A well deserving summer has arrived at last after a lengthy winter. With its arrival comes a multitude of delights: the blissful heat, the invigorating beverages the quench our thirst, and the occasional unexpected downpours that bring a refreshing change.
It is a time when friends can bask in the summer sun both poolside and lakeside in freedom, well-earned after a year of diligent schoolwork. College students reunited with their families, ready to embrace the new memories about to be created in which the summer offers. The streets and mountains of the Wood River Valley become alive with the presence of people, their smiles illuminating their surroundings. Nights become lively with chatter, laughter, and some great tunes.
Despite the ever-evolving nature of our world, this cherished aspect of summer and the unmatchable allure of the Wood River Valley remain unwavering, forging an unparalleled experience found nowhere else.
So let us embrace the well-deserving summer, savoring every moment of the precious time it grants us, as we create lasting memories and cherish the beauty of the Wood River Valley, as we have for generations and in following the example of Nelson Bennet, Dotty Thomas, Bobbie Bennet, and their two unidentified female companions in the Boulder Basin area.
F02497, Union Pacific Collection, Jeanne Rodger Lane Center for Regional History.
LinkedIn Learning: “Getting Things Done”
Use LinkedIn to learn about the Getting Things Done system with David Allen.
By Buffy McDonald, Reference Librarian
LinkedIn Learning has thousands of online courses from industry experts, including David Allen’s Getting Things Done system.
This system is a great way to help you organize your tasks and projects into an organized system you trust so that you can get things done effectively and with less stress. Think in terms of defining for yourself – What is the desired outcome? And, what is the next action?
Here’s how to access the 30-minute video tutorial:
- Go to the Library’s website
- Scroll down to the “Apps & Digital Services” section
- Click on LinkedIn Learning
- Scroll down to click on “Get Started”
- Enter your library card number: XXXXXXXXXXXXX | PIN: XXXX
- Search for [getting things done] in the search bar
In this training video you will find what the five steps of the Getting Things Done system are and how to implement them. You will learn:
- how to capture everything that has your attention.
- how to make decisions about what these captured items mean and what you are going to do about them – think desired outcomes and next actions.
- how to organize the outcomes of those decisions you have made into a trusted place that you will find at the point you need them.
- how to step back and reflect weekly on the previous choices you have made.
- how these prior steps will then help you determine what to do next.
It is worth taking the time to watch this video and learn about this system. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. It is also worth looking around at other video tutorials you might enjoy while you are in the LinkedIn Learning platform.
Happy learning,
Buffy
P.S. Smart phone users, did you know that you can add the library’s website as an app to your phone’s home screen?
For iPhone users: Use Safari to go to the Library’s website and then tap on the share icon [square with the arrow pointing up] scroll down and choose “Add to Home Screen”. You can then change the name to Library or Community Library, or whatever you want.
For Android users: Use Google to go the Library’s website and then tap on the more option [three dots at the top of the screen] and choose “Add to Home Screen”. You can then change the name to Library or Community Library, or whatever you want.
Grand Opening! Wood River Museum…
…of History and Culture
Special programs to launch the official opening of the new Wood River Museum of History and Culture, located at 580 4th Street East in Ketchum.
The public is invited to the free celebration, which will include refreshments and music. Grammy Award-winning flautist, Hovia S. Edwards (Shoshone-Navajo-Okanogan), will also perform original and traditional melodies.
“Solito” A Memoir with Javier Zamora
Part of the 2023 Community Speaker Series
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
6:00pm
John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall
In 1999, a nine-year-old boy left his tiny village in El Salvador to join his parents who had emigrated to America some years before. His astonishing nine-week, 3,000-mile journey, without friends or family, is the heart of JAVIER ZAMORA‘s riveting memoir. Zamora writes in the pitch-perfect voice of that child as he makes his perilous way, on foot and by boat and bus and truck, recalling moments of true terror and of unexpected tenderness. In conversation with executive director of The Community Library JENNY EMERY DAVIDSON, Zamora will speak about the book, about how he was finally able to write it, about trauma and healing and hope, and about becoming the celebrated poet and writer that he is.
Presented in partnership with the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, the Community Speaker Series welcomes speakers from the annual conference to The Community Library for a free community event. This year’s series features Javier Zamora on July 19 and Curtis Sittenfeld on July 25.
Registration is required to save your seat. A book signing will follow each event. This program will also be livestreamed. A recording will be available for two months following the event.
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was one, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War. When he was nine Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, explores the impact of the war and immigration on his family. Zamora has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
Photo credit: Gerardo del Valle.
“Romantic Comedy” with Curtis Sittenfeld
Part of the 2023 Community Speaker Series
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
6:00pm
John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall
In bestselling author CURTIS SITTENFELD’s much-loved new novel, she explores – with her typically keen observations and trademark ability to bring complex women to life on the page – the neurosis-inducing and heart-fluttering wonder of love, while slyly dissecting the social rituals of romance and gender relations in the modern age. Sittenfeld sits down with Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Literary Director JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ – a former professor of hers at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, as it happens – to discuss what makes Romantic Comedy a romantic comedy, her approach to genre and craft in previous novels such as American Wife, Rodham, and Eligible, and other stories from her literary journey.
Presented in partnership with the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, the Community Speaker Series welcomes speakers from the annual conference to The Community Library for a free community event. This year’s series features Javier Zamora on July 19 and Curtis Sittenfeld on July 25.
Registration is required to save your seat. A book signing will follow each event. This program will also be livestreamed.
Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of six novels, including Prep, American Wife, Eligible and Rodham, and one story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It. Her books have been selected by The New York Times, Time, EW, and People for their “Ten Best Books of the Year” lists, picked for Reese Witherspoon’s book club, optioned for television and film, and translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Best American Short Stories anthology, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her seventh novel, Romantic Comedy, will be published in April 2023. She lives with her family in Minneapolis.
Photo credit: Ackerman + Gruber.
