by kmerwin
Do you need one-on-one technical support for some of those more difficult technology challenges you’re facing?
This “intensive” offers 15-minute slots with Paul Zimmerman, the Library’s tech guru, to help you answer your most pressing questions.
The help desk is hosted on Zoom. Meeting information will be sent to registered attendees.
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.
by kmerwin
Join us every other Tuesday, January 5 through May 25, for a drop-in virtual writing workshop, led by Martha Williams, the Library’s programs and education manager.
Each workshop begins with a warm-up prompt, then moves into a prompt that we will work with for the remainder of the hour and a half. These free-form writing exercises are designed for writers of all genres–poetry, fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. Those who can only join for the first hour are welcome to join!
After each exercise we’ll share, discuss, and give each other feedback before moving onto another prompt or diving deeper into what we’ve created. We will also encourage a writing practice and share details of a writerly life together.
Register on Zoom for one or all workshops.
by kmerwin
Join us each month for this drop-in discussion group focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion through the lens of poetry. Each month we will gather to read a poem together and discuss its challenges and inspirations to how we understand our community, our world, and ourselves. Library staff and guests will lead each discussion, beginning with a reading of the selected work.
This month our discussion will celebrate Banned Books Week, which runs September 27 to October 3.
Launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries, Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. The event highlights the value of free and open access to information and brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. This year’s event theme is “Censorship is a dead end. Find your freedom to read!”
Register below to join the discussion. The selected poem will be shared the morning of September 29.
by kmerwin
Wednesday, August 19 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. on Zoom
Join us each month for this drop-in discussion group focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion through the lens of poetry.
Each month we will gather to read a poem (or other short literature) together and discuss its challenges and inspirations to how we understand our community, our world, and ourselves. Library staff and guests will lead each discussion, beginning with a reading of the selected work. Each month’s piece will be shared with registered attendees the morning of the discussion.
This month our discussion will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, which granted most women in the U.S. the right to vote.
This discussion was inspired by the work of the Idaho Women 100 campaign, an initiative by Idaho Women in Leadership and the Idaho State Historical Society to honor Idaho’s early role in the women’s suffrage movement and to shape the future of women’s leadership in Idaho. The initiative is working to recognize and celebrate the influence of women in Idaho over the past 100 years and their contributions to the political, cultural, economic, academic, social, and civic fields.
by kmerwin
Do you need one-on-one technical support for some of those more difficult technology challenges you’re facing?
This “intensive” offers 15-minute slots with Paul Zimmerman, the Library’s tech guru, to help you answer your most pressing questions.
The help desk is hosted on Zoom. Meeting information will be sent to registered attendees.
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.
by kmerwin
Do you need one-on-one technical support for some of those more difficult technology challenges you’re facing?
This “intensive” offers 15-minute slots with Paul Zimmerman, the Library’s tech guru, to help you answer your most pressing questions.
The help desk is hosted on Zoom. Meeting information will be sent to registered attendees.
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.
