300 Walnut St.

Douglas, WY 82633

Phone: 307-358-3644

Fax: 307-358-6743

E-mail: khopkins@will.state.wy.us

Converse County Library

to be having a lot of fun.

August will see us kicking off

our annual month long book-

sale in conjunction with Deer

Creek Days celebration on

Friday, August 3rd. Come on

down and see what you can

find for your private collec-

tion!

We will have an exhibit from

the University of Wyoming

Art Museum here in July of

works by Joel Ostlind, a

Greetings from Glenrock!

Now that summer is in full

swing, we can kick back and

enjoy the rest of our summer

reading program. We will be

showing “Night at the Mu-

seum” on Tuesday, July 10th,

followed by a treasure hunt

on July 11th and a Storytime

session on the 12th that will

have Veggietales: Sheerluck

Holmes for the kids to enjoy

as well. Participation has been

real good and the kids seem

Wyoming resident! Joel was

born and raised in Casper

and spent most of his life

“cowboying” in Texas, Wyo-

ming and Montana. He now

spends his time as a full time

artist living in Wyoming.

From the Rock in the Glen

Converse County Library Bridges

The Mission of the Converse County Library System:

Providing a wealth of resources to make a positive difference

in the lives of our patrons.

the coming weeks. On July 10th

we will learn about art from local

window artist Dana Marshall and

on July 17th the DHS Bearcat

Band will be presenting a program

about music.

Every week we will have crafts for

preschool and school age children

and a take home craft will be avail-

able on Fridays. All tally sheets

will be due on July the 19th and

our End of Summer Reading BBQ

will be on July 20th from 4:00-6:00

p.m. Make sure you join us for

some summer fun here at your

Converse County Library.

Summer Reading 2007 has begun!

We had 100 children pre-register.

The program started with magi-

cian Cody Landstrom on June

11th, we got a clue about dino-

saurs with the Glenrock Pale on-

tological Museum, dinosaur crafts

and ended the week with dinosaur

chalk art and volcanic fizz. We

have many activities planned for

Young Adult Summer Reading

You Never Know what will hap-pen during the teen summer read-ing program of 2007. We’ve been enjoying fun programs, cool reads and free stuff. How cool is this? It’s great to win prizes. Murder

mystery party is so far voted the most fun program by teens of the summer reading season. But what else does a summer reading pro-

gram do?

Teen volunteers are empow-ered by having a hand in the deci-sion making process and imple-mentation of what they want to do for programming. In this way they are creating an environment of civic responsibility that works not only with how we will have fun making crafts, discussing books, writing for fun, or playing (*gasp!* non-computer) strategy

games; but also with mundane tasks, like helping me clean up after their programs. My thanks go out to the whole crew. You

know who you are.

Converse County Library

July-August 2007

Volume 2, Issue 9

Bridges

Inside this issue:

Harry Potter Party 2

Library Planning Grant

2

Online Encyclopedia Britannica

3

History Project at the Library

3

Glenrock News 4

Children’s Summer Reading is in Full Swing

CDBG LIBRARY PLANNING GRANT AWARDED

lish whether current locations will accommodate expansion of the library buildings to meet the rec-ommendations in the 2006 needs assessment performed by Library Planning Associates. A copy of the assessment is available through the

library.

Interviews of architectural firms were conducted by a joint com-mittee of library administration, library board of trustees, and the library foundation board members

The Converse County Library System has received notification of the approval of a $25,000 eco-nomic development grant for a study to determine the feasibility of building expansion at Douglas and Glenrock library sites. The grant requires matching funds in the amount of $8333.33 from the

library’s building fund.

To be administered by the County, site analyses on present buildings and locations will estab-

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on June 12. Firms interviewed included Randall W. Hein Archi-tects, Amundsen Associations, both of Casper and AndersonMa-sonDale Architects of Denver,

CO.

A selection has been made but the winning firm will not be named until the participating firms have all

been notified.

The Book is coming and make sure you come to our Harry Potter Party July

20th!

You can preorder your book from Whistle Stop Books and they will be handed out here at the Library at 12:00

a.m. July 21st.

Dictionary and Thesaurus from the Home page. First type a word in the search box, then select Merriam-Webster Dictionary & The-saurus under the search box and click Go.

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filmed copies of the Douglas Budget to find death notices which

might have been missed.

Her efforts have made it easier to access the information, and the library is seeing more and more requests from community mem-bers and people throughout the country. Eventually it is hoped that this project can be merged with a newspaper indexing project which includes births, deaths, and mar-

riages.

gleaned local papers over the years, to the library. United Way provided funds through a grant to purchase archival materials to prevent further deterioration to the items. Library staff members started copying the obituaries onto acid free paper which were then stored in archival binders. This past year a community volun-teer became seriously involved. She has completed the copying of the obituaries, organized them into loosely alphabetical order (A, B, C, etc.), and has created a data-base which tells where the obitu-ary can be found. She is now doing further searching in the micro-

Thanks to a dedicated volunteer the local history obituary project is showing progress. Several years ago the library, Pioneer Museum, Converse County Historical Soci-ety, the LDS church and other like-minded community organiza-tions and members met. Their hope was to find a way to pre-serve local history. The results of this project would benefit both those researching local history and genealogy enthusiasts. The group decided the most beneficial pro-ject would be to collect, organize,

and preserve obituaries.

One member of the group do-nated his collection of obituaries,

LOCAL HISTORY OBITUARY PROJECT MOVES FORWARD AT LIBRARY