The Siskiyou County Library

06/01/2026

We are excited to participate at the Siskiyou Golden Fair again this year to present a 250 year celebration of History for Siskiyou County and the Library. Mark your calendar to see the Nation of Nations Booth at the fair June 24th -28th! ❤️

05/31/2026

It's March 1980, and Carol Girard and her husband are living an ordinary life in a small town in the Adirondacks. https://catalog.siskiyou.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=189352 They have just had their first child, and though Carol is struggling with the challenges of new motherhood, her future seems clear. Until something extraordinary happens: an inexplicable flickering of light in the sky, which is ultimately determined to be communication from intelligent life on another planet. But these beings are eleven light-years away, and nothing is known about them other than the fact that they seem to know we exist too. And so begins a decades-long exchange of messages with this mysterious, faraway civilization. As humanity reels from a shifting understanding of its place in the universe, we follow the stories of the Girard family: Carol, whose fascination with this other life sparks a desperate search for spiritual meaning; Michael, her loyal son, who finds solace not in the stars above his head but in the ground beneath his feet; and Ro, Carol's bright and ambitious daughter, whose childhood goal to work in interstellar communication will evolve into something far grander. Tracing five decades of love, loss, ambition, and self-discovery, The Radiant Dark is a stunning examination of a family navigating their lives with the knowledge that we are not alone

05/29/2026

We were honored to work with the Siskiyou Community Food Bank today to help pack over 70 bags for the community! Please consider attending the 2025 City Of Yreka Awards Banquet on June 6th to celebrate the Citizen, Business, Non-Profit and YPD Officer of the year awards. Please call the Food Bank for ticket information. (530) 340-6382

05/27/2026

Bring your library card to see this Kanopy showing of GATHER : The stories of Natives on the front lines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide. An Indigenous chef embarks on an ambitious project to reclaim ancient food ways on the Apache reservation; in South Dakota, a gifted Lakota high school student, raised on a buffalo ranch, is proving her tribe’s native wisdom through her passion for science; and a group of young men of the Yurok tribe in Northern California are struggling to keep their culture alive and rehabilitate the habitat of their sacred salmon. All these stories combine to show how the reclaiming and recovery of ancient food ways is a way forward for Native Americans to bring back health and vitality to their people.

05/25/2026

From our Book of the Week: Duty Honor Country & Life, by Admiral William Mcraven. Remember & Honor this Memorial day. ❤️
I remember the sorrow.
The sound of taps on the hillside covered with the graves of heroes.
The tearful widow. A weeping child.
A folded flag.
I remember the sorrow so clearly.
Their shadows grow dim and I fight to remember.
Their stories grow old and I must fight to remember.
They gave everything.
The least I can do is remember.
I remember.
I must remember.
I must always remember.

Admiral William Mcraven ~
Duty Honor Country & Life 2026
https://siskiyou.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=189303

05/25/2026

Admiral McRaven's Duty, Honor, Country & Life is our Book of the Week to Celebrate Memorial Day 2026. With his unique writing style, each speech is a story recalling acts of heroism, courage, sacrifice, and a sense of duty, honor, and country. These speeches include tributes to soldiers, Navy SEALs, law enforcement officers, doctors, public servants, Boy Scouts, graduating students, that game of football, and full of inspiration and wisdom, Duty, Honor, Country, and Life is a reminder to us all of our time-honored American values of civility and decency -- and a reflection on what these values mean for the future of our country. https://siskiyou.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=189303

05/24/2026

Thursday May 28 at 3:30 Shasta Stories...Yreka Library will help to share 2 documentaries about rural Northern CA one is called Out of Place and is about Japanese incarceration and Modoc relocation...the other is called Field Advantage and references "Generational Mexican-American stories of how Tulelake became bilingual."

05/22/2026

Composting Workshop at the Mount Shasta Library ❤️
May 26th, 6:30pm

05/22/2026

Library Technical Services will be closed on Monday May 25th ❤️

All non-emergency County offices will be closed on Monday, May 25, 2026, in honor of Memorial Day.