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 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.
- 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
- December 2022: Between Snowflakes
- November 2022: Stories that Hold Our Hands
- October 2022: Steps to the Door
- September 2022: Trailing History
- August 2022: Huckleberries and Happiness
- July 2022: A Cool Reservoir on a Hot Day
- June 2022: Raise Your Fist. Read.
- May 2022: The Mysteries Around Us
- April 2022: The Poetry of Possibilities
- March 2022: A Dictionary, an Atlas, a Promise
- February 2022: A Confluence of Stories
- January 2022: Reading Rivers
Weekly Library Program News
Each Monday, the Library sends an e-newsletter previewing upcoming events, current exhibits, children’s programs, operational updates, and book recommendations.
- 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…
- December 26, 2022: Holiday Closures, “Hawking: Can You Hear Me?” Film Screening, Read It and Eat book club, Brown Bag Poetry, Teen Bingo, book reviews, and more…
- December 19, 2022: Together We Read! Book Club, Spanish language keyboards, Story Time for Toddlers, Christmas Story Time, Creative Writing Workshop, “The Nutcracker” Holiday event, Drop-in Holiday Craft, book reviews, and more…
- December 12, 2022: Inside a Chef’s Head with Chef Joyce Doughty, Story Time for Toddlers, Paint Club, Spreadsheet Users Group, Genealogy Workshop, Spanish Story Time, Sewing Club, book reviews, and more…
- December 5, 2022: Idaho Women’s Suffrage, Story Time for Toddlers, After School LEGO Play, Audacious Read, Creative Writing Workshop, Tech Help, book reviews, and more…
- November 28, 2022: “Thriving Through the Holidays,” Natural Journaling, Story Time: Deer, Read It and Eat! Middle Grade Book Club, book reviews and more…
- November 21, 2022: “Write-in” for National Novel Writing Month, the Kennedy Library Virtual Forum with the author of “Kennedy’s Widow,” Story Time, Creative Writing workshop, Thanksgiving closures, and more…
- November 14, 2022: Mālama: Exploring Mindful Environmental Stewardship, Cashmere Sale at the Gold Mine, Self-Publishing: How Do You Do It?, plus more for kids, tweens, teens, and adults…
- November 7, 2022: Vote at the Library! Plus “The Journey Continues” with the Wood River Trails Coalition…
- October 31, 2022: “Moon Bones” book launch with Julie Weston, Gold Mine Ski Opening, Winter Read reveal…
- October 24, 2022: “No Visible Bruises” with Rachel Louise Snyder, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok, creative writing workshop, Read It and East! Middle Grade Book Club, Poetry…
- October 17, 2022: Sandra Cisneros LIVE, Tech Help, Spanish Story Time, Drop-in Craft, Poetry…
- October 10, 2022: “Never Meant to Meet You” book launch, “River of Return” film screening, Creative Writing and Genealogy Workshops, Paint and Sewing Clubs, Poetry…
- October 3, 2022: Sheep Ranching Q&A, “Day of the Dead,” Young Latino Leaders, New: Spanish Story Time, Language Classes, Tech Help, Poetry…
- September 26, 2022: John Maclean, Read It & Eat! Book Club, Brown Bag Poetry, and more. Also, Registration opens for Rachel Louise Snyder, author of “No Visible Bruises”…
- September 19, 2022: “The Line Becomes a River,” Deep Listening Workshop, Gold Mine Fall Opening, Language Classes, Tech Help, eBooks & More Office Hours, Poetry…
- September 12, 2022: “Rewired”: A Wellness Event, State of the Valley Forum, Gold Mine Bag Sale, English Language Learning, Genealogy Workshop…
- September 5, 2022: Labor Day Closure, Ernest Hemingway Seminar, Tech Help, Lunch & Lit…
- August 29, 2022: VOTE! at the Community Library, “ARGO”: Behind the Scenes with Jonna Mendez, Creative Writing Workshop, “The Bear” TV Discussion Group…
- August 22, 2022: “Book Around the Library” Open House, “Joy Ride in a Paint Box”: The Art of Winston Churchill, Tech Help Desk, “The Bear” TV Group, FINAL Lunch & Lit…
- August 15, 2022: “Mission: JOY” film screening, Poetry Workshop & Reading with Diane Raptosh, “The Bear” TV Group, Lunch & Lit…
- August 8, 2022: Upbeat with Alasdair, Tech Help Desk, “The Bear” TV Group, Lunch & Lit…
- August 1, 2022: A Jewish History of the WRV, Poetry Workshop, Creative Writing Workshop, Audacious Read Book Group, Lunch & Lit…
- July 25, 2022: 50 Years of the SNRA, Tech Help, Youth Summer Reading Awards, Steam Café, Lunch & Lit…
- July 18, 2022: “Homeland Elegies,” Creative Writing Workshop, “The Long Corner,” Lunch & Lit…
- July 11, 2022: Chihuly Exhibit, Community Speaker Series, Tech Help, Free Books/Discussions, Lunch & Lit…
- July 4, 2022: July 4th Holiday, Roxane Gay, Chihuly Exhibit, Solar Observing, Free Books/Discussions, Lunch & Lit…
- June 27, 2022: Annual Lecture on China, “Sip & Shop”, Hiker’s Guide to Sun Valley, Free Books/Discussions, Geology, Lunch & Lit…
- June 20, 2022: Juneteenth, “Headwaters,” Honoring Jack Crawford, Creative Writing, Tech Help, Lunch & Lit…
- June 13, 2022: Gender and the Court, “Crossing Borders,” Summer Reading, Lunch and Lit…
- June 6, 2022: Geology of Wood River-area Landscapes, Literacy Events in English & Spanish, Audacious Read, Tech Help, Lunch and Lit…
- May 30, 2022: “Tracking Lions”, Children’s/YA and Adult Summer Reading, Lunch & Lit…
