This Week at Your Library

Due to concerns over COVID-19 and for the safety and well-being of our communities, the Crook County commissioners have closed county facilities until further notice.

Even though the doors are closed at the county libraries, library staff will still be working. Services still available include:

• Curbside delivery of books, magazines, DVDs, CD audio books and tax forms (please call 283-1006 and staff will gather items requested and bring to you in the parking lot).

• Overdue fines are suspended for the duration and due dates are extended to May 15.

• Free wireless internet is available outside the building in the parking lot and on the north side.

• Digital resources are available at home if you have a library card -- you can call the library to get your card number and PIN if you need it.

We are cleaning!! That means we are also discarding books/DVDs/CD books that have not been checked out in several years. When the weather cooperates, we will have two book trucks out front of the library full of discarded items. Please stop by and take as many as you would like for your home library!

Library Programming: ALL PROGRAMMING IS SUSPENDED FOR NOW. Meetings scheduled for now: CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD meeting Thursday, April 9, at 1 p.m. in Moorcroft. CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION BOARD meeting Wednesday, April 15, at 5:30 p.m. in Hulett.

New Stamp Kits: We have several stamping kits available for checkout. Each kit contains several stamps with a specific theme. There are also two kits of stamp pads in various colors. Call the library to check one out to use for your next scrapbook or card-making project.

New Fiction: THE WARSAW PROTOCOL, Cotton Malone #15, by Steve Berry.

New Wyoming Room Non-Fiction: The following Wyoming Room books were donated by Mary Garman’s family: THE SPAWN AND THE MOTHER LODE: The Story of the Placer, Conglomerate, and Precambrian Mines of the Central City, Lead, and Deadwood Area by Joel Waterland. THE ORPHAN TRAINS: Placing Out in America by Marilyn Irvin Holt. PIONEERS AND CUSTER STATE PARK by Jessie Y. Sundstrom. THE BLACK HILLS by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Irving Dodge.

New Book on CD: COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS by Ann Druyan.

New Young Adult: POSEIDON’S TRIDENT, War on the Gods #2, by A.P. Mobley. Donated by Regina and Jim Bowman, in honor of their granddaughter, author A.P. Mobley.

New Junior Fiction: MERIDA: LEGEND OF THE EMERALDS by Ellie O’Ryan.

New Junior Non-Fiction: MYTHICAL CREATURES: UNICORNS by Martha London. ANIMAL BATTLES: GORILLA VS. LEOPARD by Nathan Sommer. ANIMAL BATTLES: GRIZZLY BEAR VS. WOLF PACK by Nathan Sommer. CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES: FRONT-END LOADERS by Aubrey Zalewski. WHY DO SPIDERS MAKE WEBS? by Debbie Vilardi. KARAKURI: PAPER MADE TO MOVE by Megan Borgert-Spaniol.

New Picture Books: HOW TO CATCH A UNICORN by Adam Wallace. TOUCH THE BRIGHTEST STAR by Christie Matheson. GEORGIE’S BEST BAD DAY by Ruth Chan.

Submitted by Kim Heaster