For Immediate Release, April 1, 2012 (posted on behalf of Kris Johnson, Operations Manager for AskColorado)
“AskColorado to Discuss Providing VR Services to California Library Users”
AskColorado, Colorado’s popular state-wide virtual reference (VR) service, is pleased to announce it has entered into discussions to provide VR services for California library users. Potential names for the new service include AskCACO, ASKCalico, and AskColofornia, with the front-runner being AskCACO. “We’re concerned that AskCalico might be associated exclusively as an online sewing Q&A while AskColofornia sounds too much like “cauliflower” and nobody likes that nasty vegetable,” commented Kris Johnson, Operations Manager for AskColorado. Continue reading ‘AskColorado to Discuss Providing VR Services to California Library Users’
There is power in the human voice to create images, shape perceptions, and inform. Oral histories capture this unique aspect of humanity, bringing stories to life and building collective memory—but archives, museums, libraries, and historical societies struggle with how to manage and share oral-history interviews.
Colorado Voice Preserve is a collaborative effort that addresses part of this challenge by developing a shared infrastructure and repository. Planning is already underway, and we would like to hear from you regarding oral-history interest, activity, and needs.
Please visit the survey link below. All we ask is 3-5 minutes of your time. Please respond by March 30.
https://www.research.net/s/ColoradoVoicePreserve
Warmest regards,
- Colorado Humanities
- History Colorado
- Colorado State Library
Continue reading ‘Tell us YOUR story’
What’s in Your Medicine Cabinet? Resources for Medication Safety
Ten percent of all hospital admissions are the result of patients not taking medications correctly. Twenty-eight percent of all hospital admissions for those over 65 are caused by medical non-compliance. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009-2010, among older Americans (aged 60 and over), more than 76% used two or more prescription drugs and 37% used five or more in a single month. The health consequences of misunderstanding how to take a medication can be significant – even deadly. Continue reading ‘What’s in Your Medicine Cabinet? Resources for Medication Safety’
This year 72 public library sites will receive summer reading Mini-Grants from the Colorado State Library. Each library will receive $200 to purchase books for their collection. “With 
over 200,000 children participating in summer reading in Colorado, we hope these funds get more books into children’s hands,” said Eugene Hainer, Assistant Commissioner with the Colorado State Library.
In 2011, a total of 240,110 Colorado residents participated in summer reading programs in public libraries. Of these readers, there were 152,720 children, 43,695 teens, and 16,824 adults.
Visit the State Library’s mini-grants page to see a list and map of the 72 library sites receiving a grant. Continue reading ‘2012 Summer Reading Mini-Grants Have Been Awarded’
As we near the half way point of the Colorado Public Computer Center (PCC) grant, the Colorado State Library BTOP PCC team recognizes the amazing progress Colorado libraries have made and pays special recognition to libraries that have really used this grant to re-invent the way they are serving their communities. (High Plains Library District, Delta County Libraries, Lamar Public Library, Naturita Community Library, Nucla Public Library, Denver Public Library, Dolores County School/Public Library, and Fleming Community Library – see details further below)
Continue reading ‘Public Computer Center Recognition’
The Water 2012 Initiative kicked off with its first author event this week with a presentation from author and photographer Pete McBride. Pete traveled and photographed the entire Colorado River through seven states and two countries and documented his journey with Jon Waterman in the Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict. One of McBride’s challenges was “to 
find fresh perspectives while focusing on the beauty within the tragedy of such an overtaxed system.”
McBride certainly finds that balance. He starts his journey at Snowmass Mountain and ends it in Mexico where the Colorado is mostly non-existent. Although the future of the Colorado River seems dire, McBride is optimistic that the delta can be saved. Justice Greg Hobbs interviewed McBride and offered his legal perspective on some of the issues. (Photo attached.)
The second Water 2012 event took place at the Colorado Stock Show. In the children’s educational area on the 2nd floor, a booth was set up by Water 2012 staff to educate school children about the importance of water in our communities. Kids spun a wheel that landed them information on how much water you find in a vegetable or fruit or allowed them to win a free prize. On some days over 700 kids visited the booth! (I have a photo I can send you on this.)
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Tags: children, Colorado, grants, libraries, news, newsletter, resources, Summer Reading, teens, youth services, YS, YS News.
Check out the first issue of the new monthly newsletter for youth services librarians! YS News will feature articles on learning development, summer reading updates, timely tidbits like grant opportunities and interesting resources, children’s and teen literature news, and an exchange of what’s going on in CO libraries.
See the first issue here (PDF)
Would you like to see a topic covered in the newsletter? Want to 
share info about your programs? Or perhaps contribute an article? Contact the State Library’s Youth & Family Services Consultant, Beth Crist, 303-866-6908.
The Library Support Staff Certification Program (LSSC), in partnership with the The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) is pleased to announce that it has awarded seven Registration Assistance Awards (scholarships). These awards covered the entire enrollment fee to the LSSC Program for the recipients in Colorado.
The recipients are:
Vickie Freemyer – Haxtun Public Library (Haxtun)
Julia Hall-Payne – Poudre River Public Library District (Fort Collins)
April Hurt – Grand Valley High School (Parachute)
Wendy Conley – McKinley Elementary (Canon City)
Beth Harper – Spanish Peaks Library District (Walsenburg)
Karen Melgares – Adams State College Nielsen Library (Alamosa)
Lynn Martin – Woodruff Memorial Library (La Junta) Continue reading ‘Library Support Staff Certification Program & CLiC Awards Registration Assistance to seven applicants’
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