Crested Butte Friends of the Library

The Crested Butte Friends of the Library is a non-profit organization, set up in 1998, to promote awareness of the library facilities and services to Crested Butte, and to raise funds in order to purchase additional books, computers and Internet services for the libraries of the town.


Headlines for the Crested Butte Writers Conference, June 20-22, 2008

They’ve appeared on best-seller lists, at national awards podiums and at international writers’ conferences. Now these authors are coming to Crested Butte, where you’ll have a chance to exchange ideas with them in an intimate setting.


NOTABLE PRESENTERS AND INSTRUCTORS:

Susan Wiggs: 3 RITA Awards, NY Times list regular

Karen Joy Fowler: literary fiction, sci-fi and fantasy (The Jane Austen Book Club)

John Shors: historical fiction (Beneath a Marble Sky)

Mario Acevedo: original mixed-genre fiction (Nymphos of Rocky Flats)

Mary Peace Finley: historical fiction author, scriptwriter, instructor

Marcie Telander: psychotherapist, storyteller, fiction writer, poet

Carolyn Handler Miller: nonfiction, digital story telling

Jennifer Rees: Editor at Scholastic Press

Jennifer Feldman: Scholastic Press

ELEGANT NEW VENUE at The Club at Crested Butte, which will offer golf, spa and recreation discounts to Crested Butte Writers Conference participants.

THREE IDEA-PACKED DAYS of presentations, workshops and socializing.

Individual memberships start as low as $15. All contributions are tax-deductible and donations can be sent to PO Box 791, Crested Butte. Membership cards are available at the Old Rock Library. Visa and Mastercard are accepted.

Crested Butte Friends of the Library Board:

Walker Berkshire

Barbara Crawford

Sarah Darval

Sandy Fails

Lash Hansborough (President)

Kathy Norgard

Jill van Tiel

The Crested Butte Branch Library of Gunnison County Public Library is located in the renovated Old Rock Schoolhouse. The Old Rock School building had been standing vacant, and unused for a number of years when, in 1989, a group of concerned citizens and businesses formed the Committee to Restore the Rock School.

As a result of their efforts $350,000 in private and public funds were raised to renovate the Old Rock for use as a library. On September 21, 1993, Governor Roy Romer dedicated the Old Rock Community Library, 110 years after the Old Rock was built.

Carol Primus, director of Gunnison County Libraries, accepts a generous grant from Lois Rozman of the Crested Butte Community Foundation.