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.