Enjoy Summer Reading 2020 from June 1 – Aug. 1. Summer Reading is for all ages, babies to adult. Monday is the first day to pick up folders from the Kids’ Library. Find the librarians right out front! No  registration will be required to make social distancing easier.

Infants to incoming fifth-graders will find big fun from the children’s library, either in person, by calling (307) 527-1884 or emailing [email protected].

The teen room will host the program for those entering sixth through twelfth grade. Teens and tweens may sign up in person, by emailing [email protected] or by calling (307) 527-1889.

Adult Summer Reading is Pam Smith’s brain child and is a casual affair.  She encourages adults to try Reader Zone. The adult code is 4d958 .

“Imagine your Story” and “Kindness Rocks!” are the guiding themes for 2020.

In July, participants will receive tickets for reading, being read to and completing related activities. Those tickets will be deposited in in receptacles for this year’s two Kindness Projects. Special Olympics of Wyoming, featuring our own Emma Foley, will be one recipient. The other will be the Cody Covid Relief Fund which is an interfaith organization formed to help local people struggling to pay bills during the pandemic.

Past kindness endeavors include the Park County Animal Shelter, Silas Johnson and Noah Rivers family medical expenses, the music park in City Park and the Cody High School band.

Local sponsors and volunteers made the event relevant and fun for more than 1000 readers in 2019.

Teen Libraran, Shelly Waidelich, will use the online application Reader Zone to track books read and to communicate further recommendations with her group. Download the app at readerzone.com. The Reader Zone code for teens is ad3b7. She anticipates a primarily virtual summer reading program for the month of June. Contact her for other options.

Progress for the younger readers will be measured in time spent reading, being read to, listening or completing related activities. The goal is just 20 minutes each day. Children’s Librarian, Holly Baker, and her staff will use the traditional calendar to credit time and then issue tickets and small prizes. Participants may also use the Reader Zone app to keep track of time spent reading. At readerzone.com, the Kids Reader Zone code is a73b2.
Summer Reading is self-paced and is absolutely on the honor system. Summer Reading is open any time between June 1 and Aug. 1. It is free and open to the community – whatever shape that may take. Curbside delivery will continue, at least in the near future.

Aura Wood, who teaches fourth grade at Eastside elementary school, joined librarians Shelly Waidelich (teens) and Holly Baker (children) May 5 for a KODI Party Line interview with Andrew Rossi. “From a teacher’s perspective, after missing one third of the school year curriculum, it is imperative that students read this summer,” Wood said. “It doesn’t matter what, as long as they enjoy it and read as much as possible, whether aloud, silently or listening.”  They all agreed that parental involvement is key to Summer Reading success. Time spent reading together, discussing the tale and choosing the next story build relationships.

Other online applications that may be useful are WYLDcat and NoveList. WYLDcat lets you see your library account on your phone making it easy to renew material, place holds and see what you have checked out.  NoveList is a recommended read utility with sort options for your age, a book you liked and want to find something similar, genres, authors for both fiction and nonfiction work.

New Books! Thanks to Soroptimist International of Cody, a service organization dedicated to “Improving the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment.” This year’s grant was used to purchase 25 new books.

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·         Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker

·         Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life by Diane Tavenner

·         Recollection of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit

·         Older, but Better, but Older: From the Authors of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are by Caroline De Maigret, Sophie Mas

·         The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired by Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson

·         Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

·         The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work by Michelle P. King

·         Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun

·         The Skills: From First Job to Dream Job – What Every Woman Needs to Know by Mishal Husain

·         The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan

·         Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick

·         Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman

·         Comeback Careers: Rethink, Refresh, Reinvent Your Success – At 40, 50, and Beyond by Mika Brzezinski, Ginny Brzezinski

·         Untamed by Glennon Doyle

·         No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History by Gail Collins

·         The League of Extraordinary Funny Women: 50 Trailblazers of Comedy by Sheila Moeschen, Anne Bentley

·         When Kids Ask Hard Questions: Faith-Filled Responses for Tough Topics by Bromleigh McCleneghan, Karen Ware Jackson, Matthew Paul Turner

·         The Manager Mom Epidemic: How Moms Got Stuck Doing Everything for Their Families and What They Can Do About It by Thomas Phelan

Coming Soon:

·         Women’s Work: Stories from Pioneering Women Shaping Our Workforce by Chris Crisman

·         Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America by Sarah Menkedick

·         Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy’s Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet by Caroline Johnson

·         Strange Situation: A Mother’s Journey into the Science of Attachment by Bethany Saltman

·         The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.

·         She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man’s World by Jennifer Palmieri

·         Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg

Let us hear from you at (307) 527-1880 or [email protected]

Sanitizing the Books!Never fear, Cullen is here! All books that are returned are wiped down and set aside by date…to wait for days before being circulated again. Cody Library Instagram

The “Digital Library” at gowyld.net is a portal for apps, tutorials, electronic books, audiobooks and magazines curated by Wyoming libraries.
Most will require users to enter their library card number and PIN. “WYLD” is the default PIN assigned when library cards are issued. Choose “Wyoming State Library” if prompted to autofill that field.
COVID-19: Free Resources for Remote Access Thank you, Wyoming State Library!

RBDigital features bestselling audiobooks and hundreds of popular magazines including Discover, Time and The Economist. The CloudLibrary affords access to thousands of eBooks and audiobooks.

Ancestry.com has temporarily lifted restrictions on home access to databases and primary source material for genealogical research. Wyoming library card holders may access this resource from home through April 30. Have your library card number and PIN ready to log on at gowyld.libguides.com/genealogy or follow the Ancestry.com link at parkcountylibrary.org/research. Enjoy stories, movies, periodicals and vetted research databases.

Try Hoopla, RBDigital, CloudLibrary and GoWYLD. All are compatible with desktop computers and mobile devices.
The Park County Library Foundation underwrote a Hoopla subscription last year that proved so popular among Park County library card holders that checkouts were recently increased to five per month. Hoopla delivers digital downloads of current movies, audio books, eBooks, television series, music and comics.
Look through Hoopla “Bonus Borrows” They don’t count against your monthly allowance. Bonus Borrows will be available through April 30. Hoopla even has a digital book club that allows multiple, simultaneous loans.

For help with online services, retrieving a forgotten PIN or getting a library card call (307)527-1880 or email [email protected].     “Curbside service is subject to change, due to the nature of the situation,” Cody library manager Nicholle Gerharter said on March 26.

The Wi-Fi signal now reaches farther into the parking lot. Log on to “Cody library.” No password required. Grizzly Hall     

• All programming is currently cancelled due to Corona virus concerns. Live streams of past programs at Cody Library YouTube
• Children’s author and artist Jan Brett stopped by to talk about “The Snowy Nap” on Dec. 6, 2018.      
• Archaeologist Larry Todd discussed the abundance of Washakie Wilderness paleo sites, Jan 30, 2019.      
• Wyoming Game and Fish biologist Tony Mong mapped regional mule deer migration on April, 2, 2019      
• Garret Randolph and Brian Mandella debuted their album “Badlands” live on Oct. 8, 2019.        
• Cody Library Rap starring Pam Smith – just funny!

Teens & Seniors    Now is the perfect time to develop your chess game. Are your roommates tired of getting trounced? What online chess club platforms can you find? Contact me, Shelly Waidelich, at [email protected] and let the games commence.

Ron Everhart’s “Photos of the Beartooth Mountains” has been cancelled as of March 16, 2020.

Over the last three years, Everhart traveled to the Beartooth Mountains 15 times. He will share images of flora and dramatic landscapes from his excursions. “These experiences have led to a wonderful admiration of the mountain,” Everhart said.

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He recently launched a new website at roneverhart.com. In addition to collections of landscapes, alpine flowers, wild life and rodeo shots, he will offer an instructional newsletter called “Photographing Wyoming.”

Everhart has been a nature photographer for 49 years. For 35 of those years he taught at Indiana and Purdue Universities. Everhart attended the New York Institute of Photography in 1968 when it was a residential campus. He has written and illustrated 19 natural history books including a 10 volume series “The Plants and Animals of Indiana.” Everhart has contributed thousands of articles to nature and gardening magazines.

Refreshments for the program are made possible by the Friends of the Cody Library.