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When I joined Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library in 2005, I immediately noticed two opportunities: growing adult programs and offering reading recommendations to a community that loves books. So, I hired a Program Coordinator to focus just on adult programs, then we rallied the staff that...

10 June, 2012 /

Editor's note: Our Tall Tales contributor, Mark Stevens, is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan.” “Buried by the Roan” is a finalist for the 2012 Colorado Book Award. Both books are on the shelves at Telluride’s own Between the Covers Bookstore,...

09 June, 2012 /

Do you know what a "squibble" is? Don't try looking it up. "Squibble" is not in the dictionary. It's a made-up word Mark Fischer used to describe his rather esoteric (read: eccentric) brand of poetry that was a Rorschach for his Energizer Bunny kind of...

27 May, 2012 /

Libraries spend a lot of time working out contracts with vendors. Historically, libraries have paid to access electronic information based either on the number of uses, or the number of people served (potential uses). Signing contracts that force the library to pay by use is...

27 May, 2012 /

Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. His latest book, “How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners,” a collection of essays, is available at Between the Covers Bookstore and is up for a...

26 May, 2012 /

Editor's note: Mountainfilm's Reading Frenzy, themed, "Conversations through Lenses and Pens," takes place Sunday, May 27, 2 – 4 p.m., at the Between the Covers Bookstore "annex," the Telluride High School Cafeteria. It’s that time of year: stacks and stacks of boxes show up on...

22 May, 2012 /

Editor's note: The timing is perfect. A 3-part workshop about achieving goals with civility – an inflated version of  the theme of the carrot, not the stick idea – with Mountainfilm in Telluride just around  the corner. Mountainfilm is known to shine a spotlight on...

15 May, 2012 /

Editor’s note: Kierstin Bridger is the 2011 winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out She joins our family of wonderful writers/poets, among them, Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, “Feelosophy” major David Feela, and Denver-based writer...

15 May, 2012 /

Editor’s note: In 2011, for the fourth time in a row (and running), the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. The Wilkinson Public Library ranked fifth in the nation among public libraries with...

14 May, 2012 /