“Rejoice and be glad with me, September 2nd (2025) is my last day with thee. I do not seek sunsets to ride into, Morning sun of new days will be my guide.” These were the words Brian Greene, Wyoming State Library’s Library Development Office Manager used to announce his upcoming retirement following thirty-three years of dedicated […]| Wyoming State Library
The Wyoming State Library will be closed on Monday, September 1 for Labor Day. We will re-open on Tuesday, September 2. If you’re curious about the origins of the holiday, read this short article from Gale in Context’s U.S. History database. You can find more information on holidays and many other topics using our research […]| Wyoming State Library
The August Outrider from the Wyoming State Library is hot off the press! Find out all about what’s going on in the Wyoming library community and beyond, including news, celebrations, events, and job postings from around the state. Subscribe today, and we’ll send the Outrider straight to your email inbox each month. Do you know any […]| Wyoming State Library
Happy August! Here is an UPDATED roundup of grants available to libraries with deadlines in the next few months, or with rolling or ongoing deadlines. Nora Roberts Foundation Literacy Grant Deadline: September 1, 2025 The Nora Roberts Foundation’s mission is to create a beautiful, equitable, and safe world and pursues this goal by supporting literacy […]| Wyoming State Library
Important update regarding access to GoWYLD resources funded by the University of Wyoming: The University of Wyoming Libraries announced an update in May for how users may access UW funded online resources. This change affects all non-higher education users, including both in-library and home access. Beginning in late July and early August, users accessing UW funded resources from […]| Wyoming State Library
If you’ve checked out the Wyoming State Library staff page recently, you may have noticed a change. A familiar face has recently joined the Information Services Team at the Wyoming State Library as Shantry Miller is now the WSL’s new Federal Documents Librarian. Shantry joined the WSL team four years ago as the Bibliographic Services […]| Wyoming State Library
Think back to the day you got your very first library card. Did you feel grown-up because you had a card just like your parents had in their wallets. Perhaps you felt like you had been given the “keys to the kingdom” being able to check out, read, and take home any book you wanted. […]| Wyoming State Library
In partnership with Lifetime Arts, the Wyoming State Library, and the Wyoming Department of Health Aging Division, the Wyoming Arts Council is announcing the creation of a Creative Aging Peer Learning Group. These facilitated online conversations are designed to bring together Wyoming teaching artists, librarians, and senior center staff to get connected and be provided with professional […]| Wyoming State Library
With 195 countries on this planet, it would be tricky, not to mention pricey, to visit each one and become familiar with each one’s unique culture. With ProQuest’s CultureGrams on GoWYLD, Wyomingites can learn all this and more without even leaving home! Culturegrams can be found among GoWYLD’s Student Research Resources and includes country reports that […]| Wyoming State Library
Did you know there is a free accessible library service available to every print disabled resident in the United States? The Federal Depository Library Program will offer a free webinar, “Accessible Content from the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled,” Thursday, September 4, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (ET) Participants will learn how […]| Wyoming State Library
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On May 6th, a shared love of reading brought over seventy middle school students several different schools throughout Casper together for a special event. The| Wyoming State Library