PLA has honored the Gilpin County Public Library (GCPL) with the EBSCO Excellence in Small and/or Rural Public Library Service Award. This award honors a public library serving a population of 10,000 or fewer that demonstrates excellence in service to its community.
GCPL will receive this year’s $1,000 award honoring its innovative and creative “artist-in-residence” program. Beginning in the summer of 2008, with the financial backing of the Friends of the Library, the GCPL offered a Poet-in-Residence to the community, who held a series of workshops for people of all ages on writing, reading, and appreciating poetry of many varieties.
This is the second year in a row that a Colorado library has won the EBSCO Award (it was John C. Fremont Library District in 2009).
View the press release (PDF)
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Thanks to Peter Bromberg, Assistant Director at the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative (SJRLC), for this information.
Colorado Libraries 2.0 is a free, professionally developed online training program designed in modules that relate to tasks we perform in our libraries. To find out more, please plan on attending a webinar describing the program. The webinar will provide information for both staff and administration.
Date: February 4, 2010
Time: 10:00 – 10:30 a.m.
An Internet connection and a USB headset is required for this session.
To join the webinar:
Step 1:
Access the meeting room online. Please enter your name as a guest as you log in. Continue reading ‘Attend a Webinar on Colorado Libraries 2.0 – Feb 4th’
Welcome to February! A new month for all of us means a new Book of the Month for the SWIFT Book Club. Our pick for February is The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Hammett’s detective Samuel Spade is the quintessential hard-boiled gumshoe; he drinks, he brawls and he always gets the girl. Of course, once he gets her, he might just turn around and turn her in. This novel is an absolute must read for any fan of detective fiction or anyone who likes to read on the edge of their seat!
Read a full review of The Maltese Falcon here. For a full list of books available from the SWIFT Book Club, look here.
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Michelle on
February 1, 2010 in
Children's Services, Continuing Education, General, Public Libraries, Western Slope and programs.
Tags: early, ECRR, literacy, register, Storytime, workshop.
Want to juice up your library storytime? Make your storytimes better-than-ever? Attend an all-day interactive and hands-on workshop using the 6 skills and techniques of Every Child Ready to Read (ECRR) in your library storytimes.
Experienced trainer Carol Wagstaff (Douglas County Libraries) and Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL) will review ECRR resources and coach you through how you can use ECRR techniques and plan a literacy-enhanced storytime. Come prepared to practice dialogic reading and give parent tips.
The workshop will be limited to 25 participants and priority will be given to Western Slope libraries. Additional registrants will placed on a waiting list.
Registration fee: $15.00
Location: Montrose Public Library
Date & Time: March 19, 2010, 8:30am-3pm
Questions: Patricia Froehlich, CDE – State Library, 303-866-6908
Register Now!
If you missed the chance to participate in the State Library’s January 27, 2010 Webside Chat – an introduction to the State Library and updates on current activities – the archives are now available on our webinars page.
For those who attended the Webside Chat live (not those who viewed it later), please take a moment to give us your feedback in this short evaluation.
Join us for our next Webside Chat on Wednesday, February 24. More information coming soon!
Are you an experienced library employee interested in the Library Support Staff Certification program? Did you know you can prepare portfolios (collections of documents and workplace projects) that provide evidence of what you have learned and accomplished as a substitute for taking a class? This webinar will introduce you to the sets of competencies required for certification, portfolio requirements, assessment criteria and process, and helpful hints for a successful portfolio. Join us Friday January 29th from noon – 1:30 pm to find out more about the LSSC program. Click here to join us.
Curious about the State Library, its staff and activities? Then please join Gene Hainer of the Colorado State Library online for our first monthly Webside Chat.
Gene will provide an introduction to the Colorado State Library and give updates from ALA Midwinter. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and offer comments on any topic via chat.
When: Wednesday, January 27, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Where: Online at http://cecc.na4.acrobat.com/cslchat0127/. Please enter your name as a guest as you log in.
All you need to participate is computer speakers or a headset; communications will be by text chat, so a phone line or microphone are not needed.
In advance of the meeting, please run through a connection test: http://cecc.na4.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm.
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