Print Publications
Annual Reports
The Community Library’s fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30.
Library Dispatch
A special print publication that tell enduring stories from The Community Library and beyond.
- Dispatch and Annual Report 2025 Bring Means Bring since 1955
- Dispatch and Annual Report 2024 We Build Stories
- Dispatch Summer/Fall 2022 featuring Hemingway Distinguished Lecturer, Roxane Gay
- Dispatch Winter/Spring 2022 in English featuring the Winter Read of A River Runs through It by Norman Maclean
- Dispatch Invierno/Primavera 2022 en español con la lectura de invierno de A River Runs through It de Norman Maclean
- Dispatch Summer/Fall 2021 featuring program highlights, Summer Reading for adults, children and teens, new exhibits, and other resources
- Dispatch Winter/Spring 2021 featuring the Winter Read of Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Programs Postcard
Snail-mailed twice a year, the Library prints a postcard to highlight upcoming events and ongoing programs.
- Winter/Spring 2026 featuring the Winter Read of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- Summer/Fall 2025 featuring Percival Everett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Hemingway Distinguished Lecturer
- Winter/Spring 2025 featuring the Winter Read of Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
- Summer/Fall 2024 featuring Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate and Hemingway Distinguished Lecturer
- Winter/Spring 2024 featuring the Winter Read of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Summer/Fall 2023 featuring Luis Alberto Urrea, author and Hemingway Distinguished Lecturer
- Winter/Spring 2023 featuring the Winter Read of Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
e-Newsletters
Monthly Stories from The Stacks
Each month, the Library sends an e-newsletter with staff essays, program insights, and donor recognition.
View the 2022-24 Liaison Archive here.
- December 2025: A Fish in Time
- November 2025: Loose Leaves
- October 2025: Sutures
- September 2025: Linger with Luck
- August 2025: Around the Lake and Over Time
- July 2025: “There is no Frigate like a Book”
- June 2025: Where Ladybugs and Libraries Roam
- May 2025: The Reach of Reading (and Rhubarb)
- April 2025: Gold Dust and Dog Love
- March 2025: A Wild Rumpus and Wonder Women
- February 2025: “Take the Brush in Your Hand”
- January 2025: Resolve
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.
2026
- January 19, 2026: MLK Jr. Closure, “Gorongosa’s Great Comeback,” Paint Club, and more. Plus book recommendations and a glance ahead at upcoming highlights.
- January 12, 2026: The Tiny Art Show: FREE art kits, “Beyond Blaine” panel discussion, “Conserving Wildlife Movement” presentation, Memoir Writing workshop, and more. Plus book recommendations and a glance ahead at upcoming highlights.
- January 5, 2026: Into to Avalanches, Backpack Charms on Teen Tuesday, a workshop on “The Tools to Learn You,” Sensory Time & Social Hour for toddlers, continuing classes/workshops, and more. Plus book recommendations and a glance ahead at upcoming highlights.
2025
- December 29, 2025: New Year’s holiday hours, Hygge at the Library, History Half Hour, Drop-in activities, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- December 22, 2025: Holiday closures, film screenings of Where the Forest Roars, and Home Alone, drop-in crafts, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- December 15, 2025: Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, Holiday Market at the Museum, Paint Club, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- December 8, 2025: Sun Valley Winter Sports Hall of Fame, Stories from Wolf Country, Library Lab: LEGO Ornaments, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- December 1, 2025: The Winter Read is announced, Giving Tuesday, Drop-in: Holiday Cards, Book Club: “Careless People,” Sensory Time, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- November 24, 2025: Thanksgiving closures, The Sun Valley Winer Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2025 is announced, Family Movie: “Elio,” Screening of “Sun Valley Serenade”, Gold Mine Christmas Sales Event begins, and an update on our Boundless app. Plus book recommendations and more.
- November 17, 2025: The Wild Dark with Craig Childs, I Met Him in Paris Film Screening, Paint Club, History Half Hour at the Museum, and Poetry Reading & Open Mic. Plus book recommendations and more.
- November 10, 2025: Gold Mine Ski opening, 10th Mountain Division Films, Mini Cream Cheese Balls, and more. Plus book recommendations and more.
- November 3, 2025: Vote at the Library, Half-hour History at the Museum, Idaho Solutions Panel on Civil Discourse, and Sensory Time for toddlers and their caregivers. Plus book recommendations and more.
- October 27, 2025: You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me with Sherman Alexie, Moving Mountains: Creating the Nurse Practitioner and Rural EMS, recurring classes and workshops, plus lots of FUN for kids and teens. Plus book recommendations.
- October 20, 2025: Forms of City Government, Paint Club, History, Harriman, and a Hike, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- October 13, 2025: Young Latino Leaders, Playwright Stephen Karam, Halloween Dirt Cups, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- October 6, 2025: Minidoka Civil Liberties Symposium, a film screening of “Caregiver: A Love Story,” Sheep Ranching Q&A, and drop-in Halloween crafts for kids. Plus book recommendations and more.
- September 29, 2025: Film screening and discussion of The Book Thief, Clay Circuit Monsters for ages 7 and older, Preparing for an Unexpected Illness or End-of-Life, and Sensory Time & Social Hour for toddlers and their caregivers, to name a few. You’ll also find highlights of coming events, book recommendations, and more.
- September 22, 2025: How Minds Change, the Gold Mine Fall/Winter Opening, Family night with Perler Beads, and more. Plus book recommendations
- September 15, 2025: Sherlock Unraveled with Ballet Idaho, Mythbusting Hemingway, Paint Club, Gold Mine Sales Events, and so much more. Plus book recommendations.
- September 8, 2025: Screening of the film Compassion in Exile, No-cook Guacamole for Tweens & Teens, field trip to Teater’s Knoll, and much more. Plus book recommendations.
- September 1, 2025: Labor Day Closure, Sensory Time, Hemingway Seminar, Library Card Sign-up Month, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- August 25, 2025: Two Years in Ukraine, Book Grab + Pizza, WRV’s Mining Legacy, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- August 18, 2025: Book around the Block, History Half Hour: The Ore Wagons, Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- August 11, 2025: Alejandra Campoverdi & “First Gen,” Crafternoon: Zipper Pulls, Tour: Lewis Ore Wagons, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- August 4, 2025: Churchill and de Gaulle: Titans at War, Field Trip to the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival, Star Lab Planetarium, Book Club discussion of The Women of Brewster Place, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- July 28, 2025: Doug Levy, author of Hero Redefined, 3D Printing Pens, Gold Mine Back-to-School Event, History, Harriman, and a Hike, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- July 21, 2025: Ruth Reichl, author of The Paris Novel, kids and teens Summer Reading Awards Party (reading logs are due!), Sun Valley Story Tours, Upbeat with Alasdair, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- July 14, 2025: Sonia Purnell, author of Kingmaker, National Forests in Our New Economy with Dieter Fenkart-Froeschl, all-day puzzle making in the Children’s Library, the Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus, and more, plus book reviews, and more.
- July 7, 2025: Hemingway Distinguished Lecture with Hampton Sides, Drop-in Art in the Children’s Library, Sun Valley Tour by Bus, plus book reviews, and more.
- June 30, 2025: July 4th closures, The River’s Daughter author event, Art Week for kids, tweens, and teens, and more.
- June 23, 2025: Field Trip to Minidoka, You Were Watching from the Sand author event, stick art for kids, and more.
- June 16, 2025: Juneteenth closures, opening reception of the “Beauty of the Sketch” foyer exhibit, “Degenerate Music,” drop-in crafts for kids, Cougars on the Cliff author event and more.
- June 9, 2025: Roll-out of our new Bookmobile, walking tour with our new Museum app, Collaborative Art Projects for kids, and the new foyer Exhibit: The Beauty of the Sketch: Capturing the Ephemeral Moment with Leslie Rego, plus book recommendations and more.
- June 2, 2025: Stewarding the Sawtooths, Summer Reading Kickoff, Nature Time for Kids, book recommendations, and more.
- May 26, 2025: Memorial Day Holiday, free new app that puts “History in Your Hands,” “Elephants in the Hourglass” with Kim Frank, Summer Reading programs, book recommendations, and more.
- May 19, 2025: Evolution of Stream Restoration, Teen Tuesday on the lawn, Let’s Build! for Kids, United Futures, and more … including book recommendations.
- May 12, 2025: Film screening of “Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874,” Building History at the Wood River Museum, Paint Club, and so much more… including book recommendations.
- May 5, 2025: SV Winer Sports Hall of Fame nominations, To Taste Life Twice writing seminar, Crafternoon, “Another Way” book launch and more. Plus book recommendations.
- April 28, 2025: Idaho Gives, the Legislative Roundup, Sensory Time for Toddlers, Regional History office hours, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- April 21, 2025: Writer-in-Residence Ibe Liebenberg, Perler Beads for the whole family, registration deadline for the Swiss Alp trip, fruit pizzas on Teen Tuesday, Regional History office hours, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- April 14, 2025: Join or Die Film Screening, Paint Club, Gold Mine Spring/Summer Opening,
Languages of Resilience Workshop, and much more. Plus book recommendations. - April 7, 2025: Library, Museum, and Gold Mine Stores closure on April 11, National Library Week celebrations, information about the Switzerland Field Trip, event with the author of Liminal: A Refugee Memoir, and much more. Plus book recommendations.
- March 31, 2025: Treaty History Unpacked: Shoshone-Bannock Reserved Treaty Rights, Tribal Homelands, and Governance Past and Present, Inequality and the Rise of Authoritarianism: Lessons from China to the U.S.,” the Library’s Book Club discussion of The Mighty Red, Sensory Time for toddlers and their caregivers, and more. Plus book recommendations.
- March 24, 2025: Steve Hannagan: Prince of Press Agents, Drop-in Activities for Kids, Hailing César, plus book recommendations and more…
- March 17, 2025: “Into the Archives,” Teen Tuesday, Drop-in Activities, plus book recommendations and more…
- March 10, 2025: Best-selling author of Realm of Ice and Sky, Paint Club, “Think Globally, Act Locally” Speaker Series, Conserving What We Love about the Wood River Valley, plus book recommendations and more…
- March 3, 2025: Book signing with YA author and illustrator Nathan Hale, Behind the Start Gate 3 with Jonna Mendes, FREE Family Movie screening of Inside Out 2, Switzerland to Sun Valley, Upbeat with Alasdair, and more. Plus book recommendations…
- February 24, 2025: Mastering the Brush, Behind the Start Gate 2, Code-a-Mouse, the Winter Read Keynote, plus more programs for adults and youth, classes, book recommendations, and more…
- February 17, 2025: Presidents Day, the Winter Read Keynote, Cake Truffles, a first-time international field trip (to Switzerland), plus more programs for adults and youth, classes, book recommendations, and more…
- February 10, 2025: Hemingway’s Passions, Paint Club, Bedrock: Immigration’s Role in the Wood River Valley, StoryWalk©, plus book recommendations, and more…
- February 3, 2025: Bitter Creek Winter Read author, Sensory Time & Social Hour, Healing: Our Path to Mental Well-Being, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, Read It & Eat! Book Club, plus book recommendations, and more…
- January 27, 2025: Winter Read Kickoff, Tracks & Traces Foyer Exhibit, Dog Man Party, The Question of God discussion group, plus book book recommendations, and more…
- January 20, 2025: MLK Day Closure, History of the Sun Valley Ski Patrol, Paint Club, book recommendations, and more…
- January 13, 2025: Landscape-Scale Conservation, Library Lab: SLIME, Preserving Family Recipes, TV Discussion Group: “Presumed Innocent,” and more. Plus book recommendations…
- January 6, 2025: Behind the Start Gate: World Cup Preparations, An Evening with Author Christopher Preston, Teen Tuesdays: Friendship Bracelets, and more. Plus book recommendations…
