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You may not know this, but the EACA (Eldorado Arts and Crafts Association) has always been a tremendous supporter of VGPL. For longer than the 12 years I’ve been here, a portion of the sales from the Studio Tour has been donated by the wonderful and caring artists to help fund the library. Recently the organization's president Charles Boxhill and Vice President Julie Hill presented me with a check with this year's contribution. We are deeply grateful for this ongoing assistan

VGPL will be closed on Wednesday, December 24 and Thursday, December 25. We will resume normal hours on Friday, December 26. We will also close on Wednesday, December 31 and Thursday, January 1. After that we will have normal operating hours. Happy Holidays!

Vista Grande Library has our own historical printing press- located just outside the librarian's office. And yes, it does work, if you have the know-how and supplies. From time to time Tom Leech will do a demonstration. He has created a special bookmark for December using old-style presses. The hope is to do a new one every month. Come by and pick up yours this month. No book reader can ever have too many book marks!

Library Club makes music together. As the Fall session of After School Library Club (aka, "Cat in the Hat" program ends, it is time to register for the next session. The Winter/Spring session will begin the week of February 3 and continue until the last week of April. Parents or caregivers of students in grades K to 3 can sign kids up for one of the days. Spaces are limited, so register early. Completed forms may be brought to the library or emailed to Tracey at libasst@vglib

At the end of November, we change out our art exhibits. We will be saying goodbye-until-next-year to the popular local jeweler, Janice St. Marie, whose earrings and necklaces adorn the Display Case, and farewell to the Eldorado Fiber Artists whose hand-crafted goods for sale are currently installed in the 2D (wall) gallery.   But the Fiber Artists are not going far! While they will be taking down their wall exhibit, they will be taking over the Display Case gallery offering l

Thank you to everyone who shopped our book sale, and all of you who donated the materials that made up our inventory. We made over $9000, which will go into the library's general fund. The sales are only made possible by the tireless work of our Board and many volunteers. The library is now taking donations of gently used books, DVDs and CDs for the next sale, which will be in May.