Published by
Michelle on
January 18, 2012 in
Children's Services, General, Public Libraries, Resource sharing, School Libraries, Teen Services, funding and programs.
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’
Please plan to attend “Spotlight on Your Career: Capitalize on Change” on Saturday, February 25, 2012, from 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM, at the University of Denver’s new education building, Ruffatto Hall. This joint program, offered by the Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL) and the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (RMSLA), will benefit librarians of every type, no matter where you are in your career path.
Speaker Mary Ellen Bates will discuss the future of library services and how we can capitalize on changes in our profession to make ourselves and our libraries more integral and valued parts of our organizations. She will also lead an interactive panel discussion (which will include Jamie LaRue) regarding what does (and doesn’t) work in making effective and longstanding change.
Continue reading ‘Spotlight on Your Career: Capitalize on Change’
Published by
Michelle on
December 20, 2011 in
Public Libraries and funding.
Tags: 2012, application, CSL, CSLP, Dream Big, grants, mini-grants, Public Libraries, SRP, State Library, Summer Reading.
Public libraries may now apply for a 2012 Summer Reading mini-grant! The Colorado State Library will award a limited number of mini-grants of $200 each for public libraries to support, enhance, and promote the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) statewide summer reading themes in their local communities.
The themes for 2012 are “Dream Big – READ!” (children), “Own the Night” (teens), and “Between the Covers” (adults). Priority will be given to libraries below 10,000 Legal Service Area population and libraries in non-metro locations. Per IMLS guidelines, the mini-grant funding should be spent on books.
To be eligible for a 2012 mini-grant, libraries must have submitted the 2011 summer reading report AND be registered for the 2012 statewide summer reading themes.
APPLY NOW!
DEADLINE: Friday, January 31, 2012
Questions:
Beth Crist, 303-866-6908
Youth & Family Services Consultant, Colorado State Library
The Project Management webinars with Pat Wagner are getting full, so please REGISTER NOW for all 3 sessions!
- Project Management Foundations: What’s the Big Fuss?
January 18, 12:00-1:00pm
- Project Management Case Studies: Who Forgot to Measure the Bookcases?
February 1, 12:00-1:00pm
- Proof of Concept: Applying Project Management Principles to Your Workplace
February 15, 12:00-1:00pm
This three-part series is for anyone who works in a library at any level. Although it is meant as an introduction, experienced project managers might appreciate the refresher and discover new ways to present information to their teams. We encourage you to attend all three, but we welcome you attend whichever programs you can.
The Libnet email list is moving from a Marmot server to a State Library server on Thursday, December 15th and will be unavailable from 10am to noon on that day. What you need to know:
- The change will happen automatically; you will not need to resubscribe, and all archived messages from the “old” Libnet will still be available for viewing.
- The address for sending Libnet messages will change from libnet@marmot.org to libnet@cvl-lists.org. Please update your address books after noon on Thursday.
- Libnet’s information page will change from http://email.marmot.org/mailman/listinfo/libnet to
http://www.cvl-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/libnet.
- The only noticeable change to Libnet after the move will be an enhancement: it will accept HTML formatted email messages (bold, different fonts, etc.).
Please direct any questions to Jim Duncan, Director of Networking & Resource Sharing at the Colorado State Library.
Published by
Michelle on
December 1, 2011 in
Continuing Education, Front Range, General, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Western Slope and programs.
Tags: CLEL, CSL, SRP, Summer Reading, training, workshops, youth services, YS.
The State Library offered 6 interactive, informative youth services workshops in Rifle, Eagle, Pueblo, Englewood, Boulder, and Dolores in October and November. A total of 132 attendees (an unfortunately timed snowstorm near Pueblo lessened attendance) from 47 library jurisdictions came to learn about the 2012 summer reading program and early literacy, and to network with colleagues.
Kathy Barco, Children’s Librarian at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County 
Library System in New Mexico, presented the lively morning session highlighting the 2012 summer reading program theme of night time at all 6 sessions. Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL) members Jana Ackerman, Lisa Chipouras, Laura Baldassari-Hackstaff, Melissa Depper, and Becky Campbell offered informative, useful afternoon sessions on early literacy, including an overview of the newly revised Every Child Ready to Read program.
Handouts from the workshops are available, including Becky Campbell’s early literacy presentation. Continue reading ‘Fall Youth Services Workshops a Success!’
Photo by Streetfly JZ
MID-WEEK BOOSTER SHOTS FOR HEALTH INFORMATION
Do you have 23 minutes? Then join in Wednesdays @ 9am to learn about free, authoritative consumer health information resources. These sessions are conducted virtually, and are available to you at no charge. You will need a computer with internet connection and a telephone.
UPCOMING DATES:
Wednesday – November 30, 2011 – All-purpose Health Information
Wednesday – December 7, 2011 – Medication Safety
Wednesday – December 14, 2011 – Alternative and Complimentary Medicine
Wednesday – December 21, 2011 – Environmental Health
Wednesday – December 28, 2011 – Mental Health
TIME:
9:00-9:23A (MT) – no kidding! 23 minutes, that’s all!
WHERE:
Click on the link below a few minutes before 9am to join in https://webmeeting.nih.gov/booster/ Continue reading ‘MID-WEEK BOOSTER SHOTS FOR HEALTH INFORMATION’
Following the popular ‘unConference’ model, AskColorado/AskAcademic (ASK) held its first UnWorkshop on Oct. 13th. Unconferences are loosely structured gatherings in which participants drive the content. Forty librarians attended, and loosely wrangled by members of the ASK Quality Assurance Committee, introduced themselves and offered topics for discussion and learning. Participants then gathered in small groups and discussed topics such as how to effectively assist students when classes log into the service; best practices for working with college students; managing excitable customers, and more. 
ASK has held an annual workshop for the past seven years, but this was the first unworkshop. While new to participants, the majority were excited about the format. Continue reading ‘AskColorado/AskAcademic Holds First UnWorkshop’
There is a power outage affecting the area near the Colorado Talking Book Library, so it will be closed today, Wednesday November 9th. The online catalogs including Pandora are still available for browsing. CTBL will reopen tomorrow, Thursday November 10th, at 8:00am.
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