Park County Library System

That’s right! Powell Branch Library is taking storytime on the road. Join us on the free stage during the Park County Fair on Tuesday, July 27th through Saturday, July 31st for some fun read aloud adventures.

Our Children’s Librarian, Toby Sapp, will have storytime from 11:00-11:15 a.m. for our younger audience. Teens can enjoy Rick Riordan’s newest adventure The Red Pyramid with Young Adult Coordinator Amy McLain. Join her each day from 11:15-11:30 a.m. as the adventure unfolds.

Remember to join us at the fair as we will not have our regularly scheduled storytimes at the library!

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Orientation sessions to help you learn how to access the Foundation Center database will be held 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 14; 1:00 – 2:00 p.m., Thursday, July 15; 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 17; and 1:00 – 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 18 at the Park County Public Library.

Participants may bring their own lunch if they wish. They are asked to contact Carmela Conning ahead of time at 527-1880 so the library can arrange tables and seating. Continue Reading »

Jeanna Merritt will lead us through a brief history of paper quilling, as well as showing us the basic shapes that are the building blocks of quilling. She’ll also talk about the tools and paper needed for your own quilling projects at home! Participants will get to create three projects at this program: a quilled snowflake, a decorative greeting card, and a gift box.

Wondering what else you can do with quilling? How about decorate gift boxes, embellish scrapbooks, make fun three-dimensional items, Christmas decorations and more! Jeanna will guide you through your first quilling experience in the Fireside Room of the Powell Branch Library. This program will be held Thursday, July 15th from 6:00-8:00 p.m.. Please call 754-8828 or stop by the library to notify us of your intent to attend.

Showing on Thursday, July 15 at 2:00pm is Alice in Wonderland starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, and Helena Bonham Carter. Tim Burton brings his unique take on the classic Lewis Carroll novel about a girl named Alice who falls down into a rabbit hole and her adventures with a cast of characters begin.

This movie is rated PG. The program will be held in the Fireside Room, and refreshments will be served.

The July meeting of the Park County Library Board will be held at 4:15 p.m. on Monday, July 19, 2010, in the Bison Room of the Park County Public Library in Cody. Meetings are open to the public.

Minutes from previous board meetings, as well as contact information for board members, is available on the Library Board page.

For people of all ages, “Make a Splash with Kayaks” is a free public program that begins at Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., July 13, in Grizzly Hall and is sponsored by Summer Reading.

Cody kayaker, Ed Conning, will tell people why Big Horn Basin rivers are so special and discuss many aspects of his favorite sport. He believes he lives in the heart of the best whitewater boating opportunities in the U. S.

The program provides the opportunity for kayakers and those who want to be boaters to hear from a widely recognized kayaking expert. Conning, 57, was proclaimed a “local legend” last year in the “Canoe & Kayak” magazine special whitewater edition.

During his presentation, Conning will show photos and videos of spectacular boating, will review safety and equipment, and will tell the opportunities that Big Horn Basin rivers offer. The Friends of the Cody Library will provide refreshments, too! All are welcome.

Fiction
Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson — Rose grew up with an abusive father and is now married to an abusive man. From time to time, she reminisces about her high school boyfriend, who always promised he’d kill her father for her. Then a tarot reader tells her she has two choices — her husband’s life, or her own — and she thinks maybe it’s time to go seek her old flame.

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan — We don’t always learn the real stories of the people we know in real life; one of the pleasures of fiction is that we often do learn all about the characters even if, as is the case in this novel about a former punk rocker turned burned-out music executive and his kleptomaniac secretary and the pasts that brought them to the present and the futures they will one day inhabit.

Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey — When Flora goes to help deal with her college president father’s estate after his death, she discovers that he has also made her his literary executor, and that he has left behind a collection of erotic poems — poems addressed to his heretofore unknown about lover, who now wants to become part of Flora’s life.

The Prison Ship by Peter Tonkin — Richard Mariner and his daughter are in London just before the 2012 Olympics when terrorists attack a harbor near the museum they are visiting. They escape and save a man’s life — only they learn, once the man has left, that he is an internationally sought terrorist. Continue Reading »

All three Park County Libraries will be closed Saturday, July 3, Sunday, July 4, and Monday, July 5.

As always, you can still check your account, place holds, and explore our online resources.

And, in honor of Independence Day, please enjoy this exhibition on the creation of the Declaration of Independence from the Library of Congress, which includes this copy of the Declaration of Independence as printed in the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser in July 1776.

Wizard rock, a new type of music born in the present decade, will come to this area for the first time in a concert at the Park County Public Library in Cody on Thursday, July 1.

Five bands make up the free three-hour concert that begins at 5:00 p.m. in Grizzly Hall. Sponsored by the Teen Room as part of Summer Reading, this event is primarily for those in grades six through twelve.

Wizard rock is music inspired by the Harry Potter books, and in fact, author J K Rowling mentioned an all-wizard band in the series.
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Wyoming native Jamie Lisa Forbes will talk about her debut novel, Unbroken, in which she portrays the struggles and extremes of ranch life. The free program begins at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 29 in Grizzly Hall at Park County Library, Cody.

Forbes grew up on a high plains ranch on the Little Laramie River in a family that has a long history in Wyoming spheres of agriculture, politics and economics. Continue Reading »