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Melany Wilks

Melany Wilks

HPPR Radio Readers Book Leader

I’m Melany Wilks and my career has panned the globe beginning in Balut Tondo, Manila Philippines where I directed a student ministry and facilitated the public education of 750 students living at the Manila garbage dump. I studied church and school librarianship and literacy through the Asia Pacific Theological Seminary and served as a library coordinator following that. Those 13 years of practical library experience whetted my appetite to seek a Master of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University which I acquired in 2007. Today, since 2008, I’ve served as the Library Director of Colby, Kansas’ Pioneer Memorial Library. In my spare time, I garden, read, digital scrapbook, and delight in my talkative Calico cat (Prairie Dawn) and lively Jack Russell dog (Gracie).

  • Moscow’s Hotel Metropol provided the final home for Towle’s “gentleman”
    HPPR Features
    Who Decides Your Value
    Melany Wilks
    The book begins on June 21, 1922. The Russian people are in the midst of the most bloodiest take over of their government and social structure in their nations history.
  • This Radio Reader BookByte reports that in 2005, a shipping company informed her that 50% of all import goods received into the USA were from China for Walmart. Shown here are containers at the Port Elizabeth New Jersey terminal.
    HPPR Features
    Read, Consider, and Take Action
    Melany Wilks
    The non-fiction book Made in China: A Prisoner, and SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang is a must read. I’m Melany Wilks, Library Director of the Pioneer Memorial Library, and book club leader for one of our book clubs.