The Mancos Public Library is offering a class on how to make Squash books;these books are fun little photo books that make wonderful cards. Library employee Kathy Graf will teach this class on how to make these fun gifts just in time for Valentine’s Day. Participants need to call the library at 533-7600 to sign up. Cost is $3. Please bring photos from home to insert in the cards. All other supplies are provided.

Date: Saturday, February 5th

Time: 1:00-3:00pm

Here is a video example of a Squash Book:

The Mancos Public Library, located at 211 W. First St, Mancos,  is offering a class on how to make old fashioned Valentine’s.  Colorful paper, doilies, stickers, scissors and glue will all be on hand so people ages 0-103 can come in and make a special card or cards for Valentine’s Day.

Date:  Friday, February 11th

Time:  3:30-5:00pm.

Free!  For more information 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.  This year the Foreign Policy Association has picked the following issues to be included in the 2011 Great Decisions Book:

Rebuilding Haiti, U.S. national Security, Horn of Africa, Responding to Financial Crisis, Germany Ascendant, Sanctions and Non-proliferation, The Caucasus, and Global Governance.

Discussion groups co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Montezuma Plata County and the Mancos Public Library.

This group meets on the 4th Monday of the month at 10:30 at the Mancos Public Library.  The cost of the booklet is $10 or participants can check a copy of the booklet out at the library for no charge. For more information and to sign up please call the libary at 533-7600.

The Mancos Public Library will be screening the fifth film in the Community Cinema series on Tuesday, Februrary 22nd.  Cyntoia Brown was an average teenager in an American town.  But a series of bad decisions led the 16-year-old into a situation that ended with her killing a man who had picked her up for sex.  She was sentenced to life in a Tennessee prison meaning, in her case, she will serve a minimum of 51 years.  Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story challenges our assumptions about violence and explores how factors such as biology, and family history can doom some young people from the start.
This film will show on Tuesday, February 22 at the Mancos Public Library, 211 W. First St.  The doors will open at 6:30 and the hour long movie will begin at 7:00pm.  There will be a panel-led discussion after the film.  Free!  For more information please call MPL at 533-7600

The Mancos Public Library (MPL) is embarking on a strategic planning process to provide direction for the future of the Library.  In developing the new plan, a study will be conducted by gathering input from the community, examining the district’s demographics, comparing MPL with library standards, and forecasting future library financial resources.  The result of this process will provide goals to work toward in coming years, including implementing strategies to increase circulation of library materials and expanding services.

From the ALA:

Libraries provide access to information and multiple points of view so that people can make knowledgeable decisions on public policy throughout their lives.  With their collections, programs, and professional expertise, librarians help their patrons identify accurate and authoritative data and use information resources wisely to stay informed.  The public library is the only institution in American society whose purpose is to guard against the tyrannies of ignorance and conformity.