Every year the Wilkinson Public Library provides free screenings of documentaries produced by the Emmy Award-winning PBS series "Independent Lens." The program known as "ITVS Community Cinema" first came to the library in Fall 2010 thanks Sharon Shuteran, a major supporter of the Wilkinson and the former...
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...
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...
[caption id="attachment_22301" align="alignright" width="200"] Barb Brattin, director, Wilkinson Public LIbrary (and Finn)[/caption] 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...
Editor's Note: Telluride’s public library debuted with the arrival of founders Larry and Betty Wilkinson. In 1965, a bookmobile came into town once a week. That was it for book lovers. Years later, the Wilkinson Public Library's present-day 20,000 square foot library nearly wasn’t built....
Anti-semitism is not only the longest known form of hatred in the history of humanity. It is the only form of hatred that is truly global. In her film, “Unmasked Judeophobia, The Threat to Civilization," Gloria Greenfield contends that the 1975 UN Resolution equating Zionism with...
"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe your mind can achieve." When Napoleon Hill trumpeted those words in 1937, the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression. At the bidding of Scottish entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie, this phrase was the result of 20 years...
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...
Now in its second year, Lawn Chair Classics, a film series sponsored by the Wilkinson Public Library, shows classic films from the 1970s and 1980s. Screenings take place at the Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village, every Tuesday at dusk through September 11, 2012. Many of...
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...
