2023 Reading List at The Community Library Fiction Memoir Nonfiction Poetry Download a PDF of this list here. … [Read more...] about Sun Valley Writers’ Conference – 2023
Fresh from the Stacks
2023 Community Speaker Series
The 2023 Community Speaker Series presented by The Community Library and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference invites you to join us for two free lectures at The Community Library. Advance registration is required to attend. Both events will also be livestreamed and recorded for later viewing. Click here for the 2022 Summer Speaker Series in Forest Service Park featuring: Click here for the 2021 Summer Speaker Series in Forest Service Park featuring: … [Read more...] about 2023 Community Speaker Series
Best Reads of 2022
Our Librarians have scoured the stacks to curate a list that will help you find your next great read. Drumroll please! Download a printable version here. General Fiction Mystery & Crime Science Fiction/Fantasy Nonfiction … [Read more...] about Best Reads of 2022
Social Influence: Sun Valley in the 1930-40s
By Kyla Merwin, Communications Manager She sits in the Reading Room at The Community Library, all tattoos and curiosity. She pours through posters, magazine articles, and photographs in the Center for Regional History. She taps wildly at her laptop. She laughs at her own mad obsession with Idaho history. This new creature in the archives is Skye Cranney, third generation Idahoan, gender historian, and doctoral candidate in American History at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, … [Read more...] about Social Influence: Sun Valley in the 1930-40s
Scrutiny and Wonder
Reflections on the Path through Dyslexia By DeAnn Campbell, Children’s and Young Adult Library Director My father grew up on a dairy farm and loved animals. He had a gentle way with all of them, but especially large beasts like cows and horses. Apparently, he had wanted to become a veterinarian. After high school he attended a single semester of college where he decided that this path of study would be impossible. He dropped out. My mother once told me that it was likely my dad … [Read more...] about Scrutiny and Wonder
Moral Panic and the Banning of Books
by Cathy Butterfield, Collections Manager The recognition that knowledge is a form of power has shaped libraries around the world and through the ages. Our earliest forms of written symbol and history are passed down to us through myriad forms of libraries throughout the ages, from the cave art of Lascaux, to Babylonian clay tablets from the 3rd century B.C., to the website "Archive of Our Own." Without the archival passion to preserve, those records would have returned to … [Read more...] about Moral Panic and the Banning of Books
