Do you know what your refrigerator, freezer or other household appliances are costing you per month? Empire Electric and the Mancos Public Library have teamed up to help you determine how you are using your electricity in your home. Empire Electric has donated KILL-A-WATT METERS that you can check out just as you would a book. Take it home, plug it in and test your electric consumption! It is free but electricity is not. Let us help you save energy and money – check it out at the Mancos Public Library!
Former journalist Tom Cheatham will give a slide show of his four different trips to Myanmar on Wednesday, February 10th at 6:30 in the Meeting Room at the Mancos Public Library. Cheatham was a journalist for NBC and the Christian Science Monitor. His photos have most recently been on display the the Durango Rec Center. His most recent trip to Myanmar was in November of 2009. This presentation is free and open to everyone! For more information please call the Mancos Public Library at 533-7600.
The Mancos Public Library will offer supplies and limited instruction on how to make old fashioned Valentine cards on Wednesday, February 10th from 3:30pm-5:00pm in the Meeting Room. There will be colorful paper, doilies, markers, stickers, glue, etc. to make the Valentines, plus a few examples. Free! Open to all ages. For more information please call the Library at 533-7600.
You don’t need a studio to make kitchen table art!
Art to Heart is an art workshop to introduce unique and easy ways to make collectible cards for any occasion. Mancos resident Nancy McKenney, who has a degree in Art History from Smith College, will teach this class on Saturday, January 30th from 10:15-12:30 at the Mancos Public Library.
The cost for this class is $4 and preregistration is required. Everyone 16 years and older are welcome! For more information, and to pre-register, please call the Library at 533-7600.
Interested in world affairs but feel like you don’t know enough to discuss them intelligently? Join us for impartial, thought-provoking analyses on eight issues of concern to U.S. policymakers.
GREAT DECISIONS: Foreign Policy Association Organizational meeting: Monday, January 25, 10:30am – 12 noon at the Mancos Public Library.
This discussion group is co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Montezuma County and Mancos Public Library.
Curriculum Material will be discussed, and future meetings will be scheduled. A Foreign Policy Association DVD of one of the topics will be shown for evaluation.
TOPICS Tentative Schedule
Mondays 10:30a.m. to noon:
U.S. and rising powers
January 25
Afghanistan/Pakistan
February 22 or TBD
Energy & the global economy
March 22 or TBD
The Arctic
April 26 or TBD
Egypt in the 21st Century
May 24 or TBD
Global food supply
June 28 or TBD
Cuba after Castro
July 26 or TBD
Universal human rights
August 23 or TBD
Mancos Public Library, 211 West First Street, Program Meeting Room
Each participant will purchase a Great Decision 2009 briefing book for $10.
For planning purposes, please email your desire to participate by January 22 to: katek@mancos.lib.co.us
Or call the Mancos Public Library at 533-7600.
Attention Students and Instructors:
We are happy to help you complete your test-taking requirements. Please verify that these conditions are acceptable to the institution giving the test so that the test taking experience will go smoothly.
Mancos Public Library (MPL) will proctor either written or online exams.
The student will schedule a date and time to take the exam. We are not able to offer walk-in proctoring.
It will be the student’s responsibility to arrange for the exam to be delivered to the library and to determine when it has arrived.
Tests can only be proctored during regular library hours.
Before taking the exam, the student will be required to present a picture I.D.
The test is administered by available staff at the circulation desk. Staff members will not monitor a student continuously during an exam, but may check on the student periodically. Students are on the honor system.
Online testing is a special situation. MPL does not guarantee that testing software may be compatible with library computers, and software installation is not permitted. Library computers may not be reconfigured from their standard settings to accommodate online tests.
If you are taking an online exam, you will be able to use a computer for the length of time stipulated in the exam.
Once the test is finished, the MPL staff member will follow instructions provided by the instructor, including signing a proctoring verification form. Staff will not sign a proctoring verification that attests to more than the staff has been able to do.
Student is responsible for any charges incurred in returning the test to the institution.
MPL will keep paper tests for 30 days from the date of receipt. If the test is not taken by that time, the test will be shredded.
The Mancos Public Library celebrates the International Year of Astronomy with an Unveiling Event of new Mural-sized images from NASA's Great Observatories!
MPL will take visitors on a journey to the center of our Galaxy when it unveils unprecedented mural-sized images of the Milky Way’s core as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory. These giant images will be "unveiled" on November 14th beginning at 6pm in the main room of the Library. The International Year of Astronomy 2009 celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo turning a telescope to the heavens.
A giant 6-foot-by-3-foot image presents a unique view that showcases the Galaxy in near-infrared light observed by Hubble, infrared light observed by Spitzer, and X-ray light observed by Chandra. This combined image was carefully assembled from mosaic photo surveys of the core by each telescope. It provides the most wide-ranging view ever of our Galaxy’s mysterious hub.
The Mancos Public Library will also unveil a matched trio of Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra images of the Milky Way’s center on a second large panel measuring 3 feet by 4 feet. Each image shows the telescope’s different wavelength view of the central region of our Galaxy that illustrates not only the unique science each observatory conducts, but also how far astronomy has come since Galileo.
There will also be a "star party" the same evening with telescopes set up (weather permitting) near the Library at the Mancos High School football field for night sky viewing. The library will also have an inflatable planetarium set up in the meeting room for children and adults to go in and further their understanding of the stars and planets. There will be refreshments on hand as well. Free! Everyone is welcome. Participants should dress warm (for telescope viewing) and bring a flashlight or headlamp if possible. For more information please call the Library at 533-7600.
Photo Credits: Venom82 and Bernt Rostad
Author Laurie Halse Anderson tells us the story of Wintergirls, a devastating portrait of the extremes of self-deception in this brutal and poetic deconstruction of how one girl stealthily vanishes into the depths of anorexia. Lia has been down this road before: her competitive relationship with her best friend, Cassie, once landed them both in the hospital, but now not even Cassie’s death can eradicate Lia’s disgust of the “fat cows” who scrutinize her body all day long. Her father (no, “Professor Overbrook”) and her mother (no, “Dr. Marrigan”) are frighteningly easy to dupe—tinkering and sabotage inflate her scale readings as her weight secretly plunges: 101.30, 97.00, 89.00. Anderson illuminates a dark but utterly realistic world where every piece of food is just a caloric number, inner voices scream “NO!” with each swallow, and self-worth is too easily gauged: “I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.” Struck-through sentences, incessant repetition, and even blank pages make Lia’s inner turmoil tactile, and gruesome details of her decomposition will test sensitive readers. But this is necessary reading for anyone caught in a feedback loop of weight loss as well as any parent unfamiliar with the scripts teens recite so easily to escape from such deadly situations. From Booklist. --Young Adult Fiction
In Roar, Emma Clayton portrays a bleak future in which humans use terrible chemicals to fight The Animal Plague that causes all of the world's animals to go rabid and renders most of the planet uninhabitable. The population now cowers in overcrowded walled cities. Mika, 12, and his parents live in London in terrible conditions. His twin, Ellie, supposedly drowned a year earlier, but Mika is convinced that she still lives. He's right. The story begins with Ellie and a tiny monkey named Puck fleeing a spaceship in a stolen Pod Fighter. Sadly, their attempt to escape is foiled by the evil Mal Gorman, who has a plan to co-opt the entire first generation of children born after the Plague and make them into an army for his own nefarious purposes. And Gorman has special plans for kids like Mika and Ellie, whose mutations give them unique abilities. To save his sister, Mika will have to win a contest involving simulator battle games and many deadly challenges, using abilities he never knew he had. The story starts fast and never slows down. While the bad guys are a bit stereotypical, the good guys are interesting and realistic. There's a touch of the supernatural, some interesting philosophical questions, and a cliff-hanger ending that will leave readers hungry for more. From School Library Journal. --Young Adult Fiction
Upcoming Dates:
Tech Office Hours, Every Tuesday at the Library: Session I: 1:00-1:45pm, Session II: 1:45-2:30pm
Lapsit for Infants, Every Wednesday at 10:00am at the Library
Little People Storytime, Every Wednesday at 11:00am at the Library
Homeschoolers Craft Hour (6 & over), Every Wednesday at 11:30am at the Library
Annual Halloween Party, Wednesday, October 28, at 3:30 to 4:30pm at the Library
Author Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Book Reading and Workshop, Sunday, November 8, at 6:00pm at the Library
Poetry Nite @ the Bakery, Thursday, November 19, at 7:00pm at the Absolute Bakery
Open Office: Computer Workshop, Friday, November 27, at 5:00pm at the Library
For more information about these and other programs, please check our website at: www.mancoslibrary.org
Halloween Party: The Mancos Public Library will host their annual Halloween party at the Library today from 3:30-4:30pm. There will be food, crafts, face painting and other fun games. Everyone Welcome! For more information please call the library at 533-7600.
Fast Facts: It’s no secret that public libraries provide essential services to their patrons and are important resources for their communities. Intrinsic values are easy to understand, but actual values can be difficult to quantify. For every dollar spent on public libraries in Colorado, how much is returned to the community? Approximately $5 – according to a study conducted by the Library Research Service (LRS). The LRS report, Public Libraries – A Wise Investment: A Return on Investment Study of Colorado Libraries details the results of a study utilizing a multiple case study approach to quantify the return on investment (ROI) to taxpayers for eight public libraries in Colorado. One of these is the Cortez Public Library! To read the full report, visit http://tinyurl.com/LRS2009LibraryStudy.
New Contact Information: Besides moving to a new location, with a new address, we've had some other contact changes. These changes were made in the interest of having ways to contact the library that are 'easy to remember'. Our new physical address is: 211 West First Street, Mancos, CO 81328. New Phone number: (970) 533-7600, New Fax number: (970) 533-7289. New website address: www.mancoslibrary.org.
Computer Workshop: Open Office: Open Office is freeware designed to do the same work as the costly Microsoft Office. We have been using Open Office in the library for over a year, with great success! We will review the different programs included in the Open Office suite: Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw. Class limited to 6 people - to register, please call the library at 533-7600.
Author Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is Coming to MPL! The Mancos Public Library is sponsoring a reading/booksigning party as well as a workshop by poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on Sunday, November 8th from 6-8pm at the Mancos Public Library. The evening will start off with a reading from Trommer and photographer Claude Steelman’s new book titled “Intimate Landscape: The Four Corners in Poetry & Photography”. The last hour and fifteen minutes will be dedicated to the workshop titled: Writing the Path. This reading and writing workshop will focus on exploring the use of images and how these are used to engage with the landscape, the imagination and the reader. This workshop is Free and open to anyone ages 16 and older. For more information please call the Mancos Public Library at 533-7600.
Automotive Repair Information for Do-It-Yourself (DIY) People
The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) is hosting a free trial of Chilton's Online Database. Please give it a whirl and let us know what you think in the Comments of this post!
From the Chilton's Website: ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site. Since this library subscribes to ChiltonLibrary, you are now equipped with decades of data to maintain your vehicle.
Do you know what your refrigerator, freezer or other household appliances are costing you per month? Empire Electric and the Mancos Public Library have teamed up to help you determine how you are using your electricity in your home. Empire Electric has donated KILL-A-WATT METERS that you can check out just as you would a book. Take it home, plug it in and test your electric consumption! It is free but electricity is not. Let us help you save energy and money – check it out at the Mancos Public Library!
MPL will take visitors on a journey to the center of our Galaxy when it unveils unprecedented mural-sized images of the Milky Way’s core as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory. These giant images will be "unveiled" on November 14th beginning at 6pm in the main room of the Library. The International Year of Astronomy 2009 celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo turning a telescope to the heavens.
A giant 6-foot-by-3-foot image presents a unique view that showcases the Galaxy in near-infrared light observed by Hubble, infrared light observed by Spitzer, and X-ray light observed by Chandra. This combined image was carefully assembled from mosaic photo surveys of the core by each telescope. It provides the most wide-ranging view ever of our Galaxy’s mysterious hub.
The Mancos Public Library will also unveil a matched trio of Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra images of the Milky Way’s center on a second large panel measuring 3 feet by 4 feet. Each image shows the telescope’s different wavelength view of the central region of our Galaxy that illustrates not only the unique science each observatory conducts, but also how far astronomy has come since Galileo.
There will also be a "star party" the same evening with telescopes set up (weather permitting) near the Library at the Mancos High School football field for night sky viewing. The library will also have an inflatable planetarium set up in the meeting room for children and adults to go in and further their understanding of the stars and planets. There will be refreshments on hand as well. Free! Everyone is welcome. Participants should dress warm (for telescope viewing) and bring a flashlight or headlamp if possible. For more information please call the Library at 533-7600.
Photo Credits: 
Fast Facts: It’s no secret that public libraries provide essential services to their patrons and are important resources for their communities. Intrinsic values are easy to understand, but actual values can be difficult to quantify. For every dollar spent on public libraries in Colorado, how much is returned to the community? Approximately $5 – according to a study conducted by the Library Research Service (LRS). The LRS report, Public Libraries – A Wise Investment: A Return on Investment Study of Colorado Libraries details the results of a study utilizing a multiple case study approach to quantify the return on investment (ROI) to taxpayers for eight public libraries in Colorado. One of these is the Cortez Public Library! To read the full report, visit http://tinyurl.com/LRS2009LibraryStudy.
New Contact Information: Besides moving to a new location, with a new address, we've had some other contact changes. These changes were made in the interest of having ways to contact the library that are 'easy to remember'. Our new physical address is: 211 West First Street, Mancos, CO 81328. New Phone number: (970) 533-7600, New Fax number: (970) 533-7289. New website address: www.mancoslibrary.org.
Computer Workshop: Open Office: Open Office is freeware designed to do the same work as the costly Microsoft Office. We have been using Open Office in the library for over a year, with great success! We will review the different programs included in the Open Office suite: Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw. Class limited to 6 people - to register, please call the library at 533-7600.
Author Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is Coming to MPL! The Mancos Public Library is sponsoring a reading/booksigning party as well as a workshop by poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on Sunday, November 8th from 6-8pm at the Mancos Public Library. The evening will start off with a reading from Trommer and photographer Claude Steelman’s new book titled “Intimate Landscape: The Four Corners in Poetry & Photography”. The last hour and fifteen minutes will be dedicated to the workshop titled: Writing the Path. This reading and writing workshop will focus on exploring the use of images and how these are used to engage with the landscape, the imagination and the reader. This workshop is Free and open to anyone ages 16 and older. For more information please call the Mancos Public Library at 533-7600.
