Park County Library System

You know that we have movies available to check out on DVD or VHS tape. But did you also know we have movies that you can download and watch for free right on your computer?* It’s true! MyLibraryDV (there’s a handy link to it in the sidebar) will let you download and watch movies by installing some software and putting in your library card number and PIN. The selection of over 600 movies [PDF] includes classics, comedies, dramas, and children’s films.

The Park County Library in Cody is offering a special session on using MyLibraryDV and downloadable audiobooks on Wednesday, April 16 at 6:30 p.m. Come and learn more of what the library has to offer! Continue Reading »

Fiction
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult–If your daughter needs a heart transplant and the only organ available comes from the guy on death row who murdered your husband and other daughter, do you take it?

Obedience by Will Lavender–Three college students are in a class on Logic and Reasoning where they are assigned to find a missing teenage girl in six weeks or she will be murdered.

Cross by Ken Bruen–Jack Taylor is back, this time working with his old friend Ridge to solve the gruesome murder by crucifixion of a boy in Wales. Continue Reading »

Teresa Jordan, author of several books about the American West including the ranch memoir, Riding the White Horse Home, will be giving a talk about her work-in-progress, Learning the Language - Close Encounters of the Spoken Kind on Friday, April 11.  She will be at the Park County Library in Cody at 3:00 p.m., and at the Powell Branch Library in Powell at 7:00 p.m.   Teresa describes her book as being travel literature set in Argentina, and focused on language.  She realized when she turned 50 that if she were to ever learn a second language the time was now, so she enrolled in an immersion  program in Argentina and soaked up the culture. Continue Reading »

Remember when the a/v department at your library meant LPs and filmstrips? Well, the a/v department has changed dramatically over the years. Powell Branch Library’s audio/visual collection boasts some of the most up-to-date music and movies around, such as George Clooney in Michael Clayton and Rihanna’s latest disc. We pride ourselves on keeping our collection current, and even bringing in indie movies and music that you may not have heard of yet. We also love input and ideas. Please let us know if there is something out there that we have accidentally missed, and we’ll look into acquiring it for the collection. Contact us at the following: 307-754-8828 or powell@parkcountylibrary.org

Wyoming’s very own Craig Johnson is the featured blogger over at the Penguin Group blog, and he even mentions Meeteetse!

Craig has written three novels involving Walt Longmire, Sheriff of Absoroka county. You won’t be able to find it on a map, but you’ll recognize it as Wyoming as soon as you open up one of Craig’s books.

Check out The Cold Dish, Death Without Company, and Kindness Goes Unpunished. The library has all three books on CD, and The Cold Dish and Death Without Company are also available as downloadable audiobooks.