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THIS MONTH'S SPOTLIGHTS
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK 2022
"CONNECT WITH YOUR LIBRARY"
APRIL 3 - 9
National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities.
The theme for this year’s National Library Week is “Connect with Your Library”, which promotes the idea that libraries are places to get connected to technology by using broadband, computers, and other resources. Libraries also offer opportunities to connect with media, programs, ideas, and classes, in addition to books. Most importantly, libraries also connect communities to each other.
Beginning April 3, Vail Public Library (VPL) encourages all community members to visit their library in person or online to explore and access services and programs. VPL offers a wide array of programs and resources that are available in person or from the comfort of home: in-person Storytimes, music concerts, digital collections, online databases, virtual book discussions, and virtual Yoga.
TUESDAY, APRIL 5
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Librarians across the United States celebrate National Library Workers Day (NLWD) on the Tuesday of National Library Week, held in April every year.
It's a good time to highlight the critical role library workers play in keeping our libraries running.
Give a shout-out to a library worker you know!
Discover all the resources your library offers. Support your library and its staff. When budget time comes for your city or state, do your part to support your library.
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AMNESTY MONTH
APRIL 3- 30
Vail Public Library, in celebration of National Library Week, will be offering an Amnesty Month from April 3 - 30, 2022.
This is an effort to recover overdue library materials by offering a “fine free” month. The purpose of the amnesty is to encourage the return of needed library materials and to promote use of the library.
The amnesty does not include overdue fines still on record from previously returned materials, nor does it include fines for lost and/or damaged items.
While some materials are simply lost, a great many are still in the hands of the patrons who checked them out. The library hopes that our "no questions asked" amnesty period will remove an obstacle to the return of overdue items, including books and DVDs.
LED LIGHTBULB SWAP
FULL MONTH OF APRIL
Looking for a free and easy way to take climate action?
The Town of Vail has partnered with the Climate Action Collaborative and Eagle County Government to host an LED bulb swap at Vail Public Library the entire month of April. All Eagle County residents are invited to save money and cut climate pollution by exchanging two inefficient old-tech lightbulbs for two high-efficiency LEDs.
Each resident is encouraged to bring in two incandescent or compact-florescent bulbs and exchange them for two LED bulbs, free of charge, at Vail Public Library anytime during regular hours of operation.
HELP THE LIBRARY TO SERVE YOU BETTER
As part of National Library Week 2022, Vail Public Library encourages all library users and community members to help identify what keeps the community engaged with the library.
Complete the survey and have the opportunity to win one of five $25 Rimini Gelato gift cards.
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APRIL'S VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON PROGRAMS AND EVENTS FOR ADULTS
ONE BOOK ONE VALLEY 2022
FINALE AUTHOR EVENT WITH SANDRA DALLAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 7 | 5:00 P.M.
AT CMC EDWARDS
(150 Miller Ranch Rd., Edwards, CO 81632)
Meet Sandra Dallas, Author of the 2022 selected OBOV title “Tallgrass”.
Join the discussion at Colorado Mountain College's Edwards Campus. This event will consist of a Meet ‘n Greet with the author, a Book Talk including Q&A, and an opportunity to purchase copies of Sandra’s books and have them autographed.
EVENINGS OF ENGAGEMENT
WITH NATALIE SPEARS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 | 5:30 P.M.
Evenings of Engagement is a series of events aimed at adults, with the purpose of offering exciting, interesting, fun or educational experiences. Join us in the library's community room for this fun concert.
Natalie was born and raised in the heart of Washington DC, Natalie took after her father, a Jazz and Classical pianist, and began playing piano at age five. Natalie’s original compositions are a home-grown recipe of honest lyricism, soulful melodies, and hypnotic body percussion. Drawing on the roots of Americana, including Old-time and Jazz, she brings to life the history of these traditions with her own voice and nuance. Her music offers listeners the space to both venture into the intimate corners of humanity and to rest easy under the strength of strings.
For more information, email Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com
VIRTUAL BOOKS 'N BITES
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 | 5:00 P.M.
VIA ZOOM
Join us! for this month's Virtual Book Club via Zoom when we will discuss the book
"The Color of Air" by Gail Tsukiyama.
Email Lori at LBarnes@vailgov.com to receive an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with the memories of Daniel’s mother, Mariko, the love of his life, and the scars of a life hard-lived. He can’t wait to see Daniel, who he’s always thought of as a son, but he knows the time has come to tell him the truth about his mother, and his father. But Daniel’s arrival coincides with the awakening of the Mauna Loa volcano, and its dangerous path toward their village stirs both new and long ago passions in their community. Alternating between past and present—from the day of the volcano eruption in 1935 to decades prior—The Color of Air interweaves the stories of Daniel, Koji, and Mariko to create a rich, vibrant, bittersweet chorus that celebrates their lifelong bond to one another and to their immigrant community. As Mauna Loa threatens their lives and livelihoods, it also unearths long held secrets simmering below the surface that meld past and present, revealing a path forward for them all.
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MEET WILL SHAKESPEARE: AN INTRODUCTION AND BOOK CLUB WITH JILL GORDON
PART 3
MONDAY, APRIL 4 | 6:30 P.M.
Join us! for the 3rd and last part of the series on Shakespeare for novices as well as aficionados.
In this section we will focus on Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".
Jill Gordon is an Educator, Facilitator & Tutor in Shakespeare Studies and an online instructor at Colorado Mountain College.
This event will be held via Zoom, email Jill at gordongrp@comcast.net for a Zoom Invitation.
SKIING BOOK CLUB
FRIDAY, APRIL 8 | 11:30 A.M.
Vail Public Library’s Skiing Book Club takes readers to the slopes for an active book club. We will meet at the top of Eagle Bahn Gondola, by the ski patrol building, to talk books and ski!
This Book Club is a fun, social outing, but at the same time, you are getting the mental and physical activity essential to a healthy brain.
The selection for this month is "The Color of Air" by Gail Tsukiyama.
Attendees must have their own ski pass. The library will not be providing lift tickets.
For more information, please email Jo at JNorris@vailgov.com
VIRTUAL GENTLE YOGA
EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY | 11:30 A.M.
Email Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com
to receive an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Join us! as we wish Anne Anderson farewell as VPL’s Gentle Yoga instructor.
Gentle Yoga classes will continue via Zoom using previously recorded sessions with Anne, until a new instructor is named.
NOTE:
All participants must be logged in by starting time.
There is NO access to ZOOM Yoga after 11:30 am.
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APRIL'S PROGRAMS AND EVENTS FOR KIDS
Join us! on the third Tuesday of each month through the school year for a fun and interactive arts and crafts program.
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HAPPY BUTTERFLIES
TUESDAY, APRIL 19 | 3:30 P.M.
School is out, so come join us for Kids Create!
We will be making Happy Butterflies
(painted paper butterflies)
So fly on over and create with us!
Most appropriate for elementary-aged kids.
Email Cricket at CPylman@vailgov.com
to reserve your spot.
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STORYTIMES
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & THURSDAYS | 11:00 A.M.
We are excited to invite families to our early literacy story times.
Join Cricket or Sandy for stories, songs and movement activities that will entertain our youngest patrons - appropriate for ages 6 and under.
Mondays & Wednesdays with Miss Cricket
&
Thursdays - Bilingual with Miss Sandy
We'll be meeting in our Community Room.
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EXTRAS
ELLA WARREN BURNETT
ORAL HISTORY: VAIL VALLEY VOICES
Ella Burnett was born Ella Marie Warren in Gypsum, Colorado on October 17, 1926. Her family moved to Gypsum when she was young. Her father owned a saw mill in Red Cliff and supplied wood to the mine in Gilman, Colorado. Her family was large with many brothers and 2 sisters. After graduating from high school in Red Cliff, Ella enrolled in a nursing program at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. Since her nurses training was occurring during World War II, she was expected to enter the armed services upon graduation, if the war were still being fought. She graduated from the nursing program in 1947 and her first job was at the clinic at the New Jersey Zinc Mine in Gilman. She worked at the clinic in Gilman until the mine closed the clinic in 1971 at which time she started working for the medical clinic in Vail, Colorado until her retirement. She and her husband, H. Pete Burnett, lived in Minturn, Colorado.
ART @ YOUR LIBRARY
Vail Public Library proudly displays local artists’ work in our community room on a rotating schedule. Public viewing is available during library hours.
The art on display for the month of April is by local artist Lannie Pihajlic.
"Lannie Pihajlic is an artist based just south of Denver. His work is diverse, from paintings to digital works, and sculpture. He has been lucky enough to have won numerous art awards and sells his artwork nationally. When not making art, he is teaching for his art education company, Art for Life Colorado, where he has taught over 300 children weekly before the pandemic. When not teaching or making art, he enjoys writing, public speaking and enjoying the great outdoors. "
If you are interested in displaying your work, please contact
Sandy Rivera at 970-479-2331 or SRivera@vailgov.com
THIS MONTH'S DATABASE HIGHLIGHT
THE VAIL TRAIL DIGITIZATION PROJECT
The Vail Trail, which was the first local newspaper in Vail, started publishing in 1965. The history of the new community built from scratch, the fledgling ski area, the eastern part of Eagle county and the ski industry in Colorado are all captured in this newspaper.
This digitization project has capture the years 1965-1979, thus far, and is made possible by funds from the Friends of Vail Public Library and grants from the Colorado State Library.
A service of the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than two
million digitized pages, representing more than 600 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 up through 2021.
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ONLINE 24/7 RESOURCES
Remember to use our online resources for 24/7 access
to information including the resources listed below.
VAIL PUBLIC LIBRARY
Open Hours:
Monday - Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday - Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
292 West Meadow Drive, Vail CO 81657
970.479.2184 | vaillibrary.com
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