News & Events

Thanks to all who have contributed, but we still need your help for the Wyoming Public Libraries Endowment Challenge. Your dollars are matched 2:1 through the generosity of the Wyoming State Legislature.

Make your donation or pledge today!

Mail checks to Converse County Library Foundation, 300 Walnut St., Douglas, WY 82633

Converse County Library Foundation, PO Box 1000, Glenrock, WY 82637

Join the Online Book Clubs

Book Clubs

Read books in your email. New books each week. Sample 2-3 chapters.

Click Here

Library Newsletter

Converse County Library's Bridges newsletter is published bi-monthly. Click here to view past issues or subscribe to the newsletter.

January/February 2012

This SlideShowPro photo gallery requires the Flash Player plugin and a web browser with JavaScript enabled.

Are Your Paperback Books in Need of a New Home?

Converse County Library's paperback Read-and Return is being overrun by romance novels.If you have mysteries, suspense, science fiction, general fiction, westerns, or other genres that are taking up valuable space at your home, why not share with friends and neighbors. Box them up and drop them by the library at 300 Walnut Street in Douglas. We'll see they make their way into the hands of others readers to read and enjoy.

Welcome to OneClick

Converse County libraries, through the services of the Wyoming State Library is offering "OneClickdigital" audiobooks, to replace the EBSCO NetLibrary product effective immediately.

To use these new audiobooks, follow these steps:
1. Go to http://gowyld.net/
2. Click on "eContent."
3. Click on "audiobooks."
4. Choose "OneClickdigital."
5. You'll be prompted to start a new account. Once you've done so, you can continue browsing.

Not sure if you want to use OneClickdigital, you can still browse the collection to see if you're interested.

If you had an audiobook account with EBSCO, that service ended November 30.

Ebooks are coming!

Within the near future, WYLD (Wyoming Libraries Database)member libraries will be bringing eBooks to Wyoming libraries. A contract has been signed with 3M Cloud Library that will allow libraries to purchase titles and offer them to patrons electronically for checkout. Currently 3M works with most eReaders, except for Kindle, but 3M is working with Amazon to expand to their Kindle product line. If you have a Nook, Sony e-Reader, or a 3M model, you'll be set to download and enjoy these books. You can find more information by viewing a short video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOYSQv-12RY.

Book Discussion

"Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
Rhoda Janzen

Just Because We Like To Read: It's All About Me!
Book Discussion Series 2011-2012
February 22, 2012

Her husband has left her for Bob, whom he met on Gay.com, and she's just been in a bad auto crack-up,so poet/professor Janzen heads home to her Mennonite parents. Not mournful but funny. Try it!

Converse County Library
300 Walnut Street
Douglas, WY

Book News

New Nonfiction
New Fiction