If anyone is visiting Denver soon, and would be interested in picking up some shelving items, please let us know! The Boulder Public Library is graciously donating some shelving units to the Mancos Library so that we can expand our collection.
You will need a full-sized pickup truck, or preferably a trailer, as the shelving is rather large.
Please contact Lee Hallberg at 970.533.7600, if you are interested. MPL Thanks You!!
The Mancos Public Library, located at 211 W. First St., will host a discussion led by Midge Kirk around the newest book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes titled Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul.
Date: Saturday, January 28th
Time: 10:00am-12:00 Noon
Place: MPL Community Room, 211 West First Street
“Call her Our Lady, La Nuestra Señora, Holy Mother-or one of her thousands of other names,” says Dr. Estés. “She wears hundreds of costumes, dozens of skin tones, is patroness of deserts, mountains, stars and oceans. Thus she comes to us in billions of images, but at her center, she is the Great Immaculate Heart.” With Untie the Strong Woman, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés invites us to reconnect with “the fierce and loving Blessed Mother who is friendly, but never tame-she who flies to our aid when the road is long and our hearts are broken, ever ready to rekindle the inner fire of our creative souls.”
All are welcome. Free. For more information please call MPL at 533-7600.
The Mancos Public Library will show the film Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, as part of the ongoing Community Cinema series, on Thursday, January 19th, at 7:00pm. Daisy Bates was a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. A panel-led discussion will follow the film. Free! For more information please call MPL at 533-7600 or visit www.mancoslibrary.org.
Watch A Feminist Before the Term Was Invented on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.
In this beginner class, we will cover most aspects of Facebook that you are likely to face each time you login. The goal of this class is to help participants to become familiar with the Facebook website and what you can do on this social networking site.
Date: Wednesday, December 21
Time: 5pm
Place: MPL Community Meeting Room, 211 West First Street, Mancos
Specific Topics include:
FREE!
We will have computers available for use in the class. If you would like, please feel free to bring your own laptop.
Register online below, or call us at 970.533.7600.
MPL’s Holiday Craft Party is Coming Up! All ages welcome.
Date: Saturday, December 10th
Time: 10am -12pm
Place: MPL Community Meeting Room, 211 West First Street.
Supplies (and some instruction) will be available to create snowflakes, window stars, luminarias, and pine cone bird feeders. All items make great decorations or beautiful gifts.
Free! Call MPL at 533-7600 for more information.
The Mancos Public Library’s 2nd Annual Technology Petting Zoo brings some of the hottest electronic devices on the market – to Mancos! On Wednesday, November 30, come explore and play with innovative technologies and find out more about their uses in the home, workplace and at school.
Technologies on display at the Zoo include:
The purpose of this Tech Petting Zoo is to help individuals, families, teachers and small businesses see what kind of technologies are available today, and how to use them effectively. The Tech Petting Zoo is an open-house type of event and will have a mixture of scheduled demonstrations and one-on-one conversations.
The MPL 2nd Annual Technology Petting Zoo will be held at the Library on Wednesday, November 30, from 5pm – 7pm, in the Community Meeting Room, 211 West First Street, Mancos.
There is no charge to attend and reservations are not required. Please call the Library at 970.533.7600 for more information.
The Mancos Public Library is sponsoring their 6th Annual Wreath Making Workshop!
Date: Monday, December 5th
Time: 6:30pm
Place: Community Meeting Room, MPL – 211 West First Street, Mancos.
Mary Vozar will lead this workshop on how to make a beautiful holiday wreath out of a wide variety of evergreens. Each participant will make one wreath to take home.
The cost of the class is $5. Participants are encouraged to bring gloves and clippers if they have them as well as any special items they may wish to glue on. Ribbons and other decorations will be provided.
Preregistration is required. To sign up, or for more information, please call the Library at 533-7600.
The Mancos Public Library will show the film “Gasland”, a film about fracking and the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history that has swept across the United States.
Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 7:00pm
Place: Community Meeting Room, MPL – 211 West First Street, Mancos
The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination.
A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. The film is part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, and part showdown.
Members of the San Juan Citizens Alliance, and the BLM will be on hand to answer questions after the film.
Free! For more information call MPL at 533-7600.
Do you have 23 minutes? Then join in Wednesdays @ 9am to learn about free, authoritative consumer health information resources. These sessions are conducted virtually, and are available to you at no charge. You will need a computer with internet connection and a telephone.
UPCOMING DATES:
Wednesday – November 30, 2011 – All-purpose Health Information
Wednesday – December 7, 2011 – Medication Safety
Wednesday – December 14, 2011 – Alternative and Complimentary Medicine
Wednesday – December 21, 2011 – Environmental Health
Wednesday – December 28, 2011 – Mental Health
TIME:
9:00-9:23A (MT) – no kidding – 23 minutes, that’s all!
WHERE:
Click on the link below a few minutes before 9am to join in
https://webmeeting.nih.gov/
AUDIO CONNECTION:
Once you log into the web meeting room, you will be prompted by the system to enter your telephone number. If you experience problems, please use the following connection numbers:
* Dial-In: 1-866-846-3997
* Pass-Code: 239514
REGISTRATION:
Registration is not required, but appreciated. Please visit http://www.tinyurl.com/
If you have never attended a Connect Pro meeting before:
Test your connection: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/
Dana Abbey, MLS
Health Information Literacy Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
MS A003
Health Sciences Library
12950 East Montview Blvd.
Aurora, Colorado 80045
MPL has the complete trilogy of the Hunger Games novels by Suzanne Collins. Soon, the first book will be released in movie format.