Print Publications
Annual Reports
The Community Library’s fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30.
Library Dispatch
Twice a year, the Library prints a newsletter to highlight upcoming events and special program initiatives as well as new resources and services.
- Library Dispatch – Winter/Spring 2024
- Library Dispatch – Summer/Fall 2023
- Library Dispatch – Winter/Spring 2023
- Library Dispatch – Summer/Fall 2022
- Library Dispatch – Winter/Spring 2022 – in English
- Library Dispatch – Invierno/Primavera 2022 – en español
- Library Dispatch – Summer/Fall 2021
- Library Dispatch – Winter/Spring 2021
Electronic Newsletters
Monthly Liaison: Stories from The Stacks
Each month, the Library sends an e-newsletter with staff essays, program insights, and donor recognition.
View the 2022 Liaison Archive here.
- November 2023: Parachutes and Pudding
- October 2023: (Parentheses)
- September 2023: A Little Card, a Lot of World
- August 2023: Fish Full of Stories
- July 2023: Confluences and Connections
- June 2023: Maps to Adventure
- May 2023: I Don’t Know, and Whodunit
- April 2023: Words Can Do Anything
- March 2023: Women’s History Month
- February 2023: Tracking the West
- January 2023: Circular Economies
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 2022 Archive here.
- December 4, 2023: Winter Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Creating Housing Opportunities for All, Bilingual Story Time, Book Club: Living Untethered, Creative Writing Workshop, and so much more…
- November 27, 2023: Raise Your Hand to Support Reading Fearlessly, Holiday Gifts at the Museum, Let’s Build! for Kids, A Time Traveler’s Guide to Social Change, and so much more…
- November 20, 2023: Thanksgiving Closures, Drop-in Craft (all week!), Teen Intern Programs, SV Winter Sports Hall of Fame, “High Scribe” screenwriting program, and more…
- November 13, 2023: Electrify the Wood River Valley, the Cashmere event at Gold Mine Thrift, Darn It!–to learn how to patch cashmere and other knits, Paws to Read with Wynslow the therapy dog, and more…
- November 6, 2023: Vote at the Library, SV Winter Sports Hall of Fame, Killers of the Flower Moon screening, In Light of All Darkness, Sewing Club, and so much more…
- October 30, 2023: Sabbath Film Screening, Paws to Read, Ski Opening, and so much more…
- October 23, 2023: More Than a Few Good Men, “Prosperity Mountain” Sculpture Unveiling, and so much more…
- October 16, 2023: Frank Church: “The Last Honest Man”, Friday Closures, Paint Club, and so much more…
- October 9, 2023: Award-winning playwright Rajiv Joseph, Young Latino Leaders Panel, Drop-in Craft, and so much more…
- October 2, 2023: Peruvian Sheepherding in Idaho, New Era of Conservation: Working Landscapes, and so much more…
- September 25, 2023: Stranger in the Desert with Jordan Salama, Pulitzer Prize Winner Martyna Majok, and so much more…
- September 18, 2023: The Salmon Way, Gold Mine Fall Opening, and so much more…
- September 11, 2023: “Is it the End of Night?”, Gold Mine Bag Sale, and so much more…
- September 4, 2023: Labor Day Closure, Annual Ernest Hemingway Seminar, and so much more…
- August 28, 2023: Check out the happenings coming up at the Library and beyond, including “A Life in Recovery with Ben Seymour,” the Sun Valley Sports Hall of Fame nomination deadline, Let’s Build for Kids, Creative Writing Workshop, book reviews and more…
- August 21, 2023: Cruising to Idaho, Doodle & Bristle Bots, and so much more …
- August 14, 2023: Book Around the Block! Open House, “Ike and Winston,” and so much more …
- August 7, 2023: A Force for Nature, “Musical Landscapes,” and so much more…
- July 31, 2023: “Rivers Revealed: Uncovering the Hidden Pathways,” and so much more…
- July 24, 2023: Wood River Museum Grand Opening, “Romantic Comedy” with Curtis Sittenfeld, and so much more…
- July 17, 2023: Solito: A Memoir, Mobile Planetarium, Dark Sky Observation, Museum Exhibit, and so much more…
- July 10, 2023: Hiking the Idaho Centennial Trail, Summer Reading, and so much more…
- July 3, 2023: July 4th Closure, New Museum opens, Meet an Astronomer, and so much more…
- June 26, 2023: Hemingway Distinguished Lecture, Jewish Film Festival, and so much more…
- June 19, 2023: Juneteenth closure, “People of the Moon,” Cabinet of Wonders, and so much more…
- June 12, 2023: “A Future We Can Love” with Susan Bauer-Wu, Opening of the new Wood River Museum and the new Consign store, so much more…
- June 5, 2023: Hemingway Distinguished Lecture, México en el Corazón, Miracle of the Mind, and so much more…
- May 29, 2023: Memorial Day Closure, Hemingway Seminar, “My Pioneer Cabin Story,” and so much more…
- May 22, 2023: Jennifer Haigh & “One True Sentence,” Paint Club for Tweens & Teens, and so much more…
- May 15, 2023: “To Taste Life Twice” Seminar, Vote, Read It and Eat! Middle Grade Book Club, and so much more…
- May 8, 2023: Wonder Travels with Writer-In-Residence Josh Barkan, District 26 Legislative Town Hall, Crafternoon for Kids, and so much more…
- May 1, 2023: Idaho Gives, “Vermeer” Film Screening, Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s, Catwalk for the Causes, language learning, Tech Help Desk, Sewing Club, Drop-in Craft: Mother’s Day, and more…
- April 24, 2023: National Library Week: Fireside Chats with Library Staff, Dia de los Niños in Children’s, Patron Video Recordings, Housing Lessons from Park City, Utah, Let’s Build! for Kids, language learning, writing workshops, and more…
- April 17, 2023: Sneak Preview of the Hemingway Distinguished Lecture, Gold Mine Bag Sale, Navigating Longevity, How to Overcome Writer’s Block, Together We Read! Book Club, tech help, book reviews, and more…
- April 10, 2023: Gold Mine Bag Sale, Youth Emotional Health in Education, Paint Club for Tweens & Teens, Genealogy Workshop, SNUG: Spreadsheet (Nerds) User Group, book reviews, and more…
- April 3, 2023: “Clean Food, Messy Life” with Jamie Truppi, “To Taste Life Twice” Seminar: Reading, Writing & Connecting Over Words, Read It and Eat book club, “How To Change Your Mind” Discussion Group, Tech Help, book reviews, and more…
- March 27, 2023: DNA Sleuthing, Gold Mine Consign Re-opens, 3rd Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration, Read It and Eat! Middle Grade Book Club, Spanish Story Time, book reviews, and more…
- March 20, 2023: “The Torqued Man,” the Tale of Franz Kafka’s Archives, Drop-in: Family Game Day, Drop-in Builders Day, Wood River Valley Writers’ Roost, and more…
- March 13, 2023: Expanding our Community Green Heart as our Valley Changes, Upbeat with Alasdair,
- “As I See It” A One-Woman Performance, Paint Club, Monthly Spreadsheet User Group, Tech Help, and more…
- March 6, 2023: Winter Read Keynote with Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Miracle of the Mind: “Memory,” Great Decisions Course, Language Learning, Sewing Club, Drop-in Craft, and more…
- February 27, 2023: “Warrior Women” Film Screening, State of the Valley, Identifying Yew Plants, Let’s Build! for Kids, TV Discussion Group: Bad Sisters, Creative Writing workshop, Brown Bag Poetry, and more…
- February 20, 2023: Presidents’ Day Closure, Women We Buried, Women We Burned, TV Discussion Group: Bad Sisters, Together We Read! Book Club, language learning, Winter Read Book Group, Brown Bag Poetry, Library Lab: SLIME, Eat that Frog book class, and more…
- February 13, 2023: A Storyteller’s Guide to Changing the World, Creating an Inclusive Outdoors, language learning, Spreadsheet Users Group, Paint Club, Tech Help, and more…
- February 6, 2023: Listening and Silence in “Sabrina & Corina”, Sperm Whales, Early Literacy Summit, Audacious Read, Language Learning, Genealogy Workshop, Read It & Eat: Middle Grade Book Club, Winter Read Book Group, Brown Bag Poetry, Sewing Club, “Work It Out Wombats,” book reviews, and more…
- January 30, 2023: Winter Read Kickoff, “Las Catrinas” exhibit opening, Creative Writing Workshop, language classes, Tech Help, Brown Bag Poetry, and more…
- January 23, 2023: Housing Lessons and Opportunities, “The World is Our Stage,” Story Time for Toddlers, Language Learning, Spanish Story Time, Brown Bag Poetry, Nature Journaling, Preserving Family Recipes, book reviews, and more…
- January 16, 2023: Martin Luther King Jr. Day closing, Nutrient Cycles in Macroinvertebrates, Closing of the Chihuly Exhibit, Language Learning, Creative Writing Workshop, Paint Club, Tech Help, Sewing Club, book reviews, and more…
- January 9, 2023: “Clearly Indigenous” program, “Eleutheria” with Writer-in-Residence Allegra Hyde, Story Time for Toddlers, Spreadsheet Users Group, Genealogy Workshop, Tech Help, Nature Journaling, book reviews, and more…
- January 2, 2023: New Year’s Day closures, Upbeat with Alasdair: “The Rite of Spring,” Creative Writing Workshop, Brown Bag Poetry, Nature Journaling, Intro to Avalanches, book reviews, and more…
