Editor’s note: Year after year, the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, has designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. And it just earned its fifth star in a row, which puts The Wilkinson Public Library into an elite club...
Editor’s note: Year after year, the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, has designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. And we just earned our fifth star in a row, which puts The Wilkinson Public Library into an elite club...
Editor’s note: Year after year, the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, has designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. TheWilkinson Public Library ranks fifth in the nation among public libraries with annual budgets of $1 – 5 million, hence...
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 ranks fifth in the nation among public libraries with...
On Christmas morning, 1996, the morning his daughter had been kidnapped, John Ramsey received this note: “Listen carefully! We are a group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction. We respect your business but not the country that it serves. At this time we...
Craig Childs’s reading at the Wilkinson Library this Friday at 8PM is one event not to be missed this weekend. The author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books on nature, science, and adventure, Childs’s work has a way of elevating and astounding his...
“Occasionally a conference can, by the strength of its vision, create a whole new context within which to understand an issue.” ~ Paul Hawken, author and social entrepreneur 2012 appears to be a record-breaking year. Forest fires consumed 7.7 million acres of land, global temperatures increased 1.01°F, and...
There's an exciting workshop happening this weekend in Telluride. John Bruna, aka monk Chophel, will teach about mindfulness. As the Daily Om claims (which you can subscribe to for your morning e-infusion of wisdom), “Mindfulness is a learned skill that offers profound benefits in all...
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 ranks fifth in the nation among public libraries with...
To make his point, Victor Garlock, Ph.D. and author, tells a whale of a tale in a metaphor drawn from the Polynesian culture: "Standing on a whale fishing for minnows." Minnows, he explains, are life's noises, the distractions our mind and senses glom onto everyday that...
