The Community Library Celebrates National Library Week April 20 - 24, with Special “I Love My Library” Events for All Ages Beginning April 20, and running through April 24, The Community Library in Ketchum is hosting a series of drop-in events to celebrate libraries, library workers, the love of books, and the freedom to read whatever one chooses. Director of Library Operations Pam … [Read more...] about National Library Week 2026
Library Blog
Review: Contemporary Art Books
Systems Librarian Susie Bille recommends new contemporary art books. If you love art, come to the Library! Contemporary art books (new to us) are in our New Books room. We’ve been adding some each month, thanks to a generous donation from Ruth Bloom. These books are big and heavy. But once home, they quietly sit on a table, waiting for ten minutes of your day. Think of it as taking a gallery home with you. I’ve been enjoying leafing through these books and find myself … [Read more...] about Review: Contemporary Art Books
2026 Community Speaker Series
Each year, The Community Library and Sun Valley Writers' Conference partner on two free lectures for the community in the Library's Lecture Hall and via livestream on Vimeo. Advance registration is required to attend. Registration opens on May 4 at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Time. Seating is limited. Click here for the 2025 Summer Speaker Series featuring: Click here for the 2024 Summer Speaker Series featuring: Click here for the 2023 Summer Speaker Series … [Read more...] about 2026 Community Speaker Series
Books Review: Twist
Director of Library Operations Pamela Parker recommends Twist: A Novel by Colum McCann. Irish author Colum McCann grapples with human disconnections in his most recent novel, Twist (2025). He does so by taking us on a sea-faring adventure off the coast of Africa aboard a vessel that repairs underwater fiber-optic cables. Periodic damage to these lines threatens global communications and … [Read more...] about Books Review: Twist
Film Review: Sinners
Gold Mine Processing Associate Janis Tedrow recommends the film Sinners produced and directed by Ryan Coogler. In the film Sinners, two brothers during the 1930s Jim Crow set out to purchase a barn on a former slave plantation in order to open a juke joint. On the journey, they invite friends to work there, and it becomes an immediate success. One of the old friends is a piano player. On his way to this new music venue, he meets Sammie, a young man whose father is a preacher. Sammie’s … [Read more...] about Film Review: Sinners
Documentary Review: The Final Days of Julius Caesar
Communications Manager Kyla Merwin Recommends The Final Days of Julius Caesar produced by The Great Courses. “Beware the Ides of March,” warned the seer Spurinna to Rome’s most powerful man, Gaius Julius Caesar. On that day of foreboding, March 15, 44 BCE, one of the most infamous assassinations in world history would take place. To set the stage, narrator Robert Garland takes us first, with passion and aplomb, to another pivotal day in Roman history in January 49 BCE, when Julius … [Read more...] about Documentary Review: The Final Days of Julius Caesar
