The Institute for Museums and Library Services recently released its list of June 2009 grant recipients (http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/061709b_list.shtm). One of these awards is a nearly $1M grant to Denver Public Library (principal investigator is DPL’s Kristen Svendsen); grant partners include REFORMA-Colorado, the Colorado Association of Libraries, and the University of Denver. The purpose of the grant is to increase the number of librarians with the skills and knowledge to serve linguistically and culturally diverse communities. The money will be used to pay full-tuition and scholarships for 18 students to obtain their master’s degrees at the University of Denver’s library school. (This is the 3rd such grant received by DPL; it is known locally as “Leaders III”.)
Monthly Archive for July, 2009
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The Special Populations & Issues Committee of the Colorado State Library announces a new venture for the 2009/10 year. This year’s Community Conversations Project is moving to a more informal, sustainable mentorship and will match this year’s participants as mentors with a new group of libraries hoping to develop their services in inclusiveness/diversity.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY AUGUST 15 to carlson_m@cde.state.co.us, (fax) 303.866.6940.
- Flyer (PDF)
- Application (DOC)
- Diversity website
Congratulations to the Athmar Park Branch Library who is the recipient of a grant from the Urban Arts Fund and will participating with an anti-graffiti-vandalism project this summer! This purpose of this project is to raise awareness about graffiti and will encourage kids and adults alike to take pride in their community.
The theme of their project, a mural, will be “Knowledge is Power.” The mural will say “Athmar Park Library” and will feature the work of many local artists! These local artists will consist of neighborhood youth in grades 5 through 12. Their work will be documented using photos, videos, and podcasts which will be posted on the eVolver website.
The mural, which will be hung on the south-facing wall of the Athmar Park Library as a permanent art installation, will be unveiled on August 19!
Did you see The Westword article on Tweeting librarians and libraries? Thanks to Tara Bannon from Denver Public Library who posted on Libnet.
By the way, here’s a way to find other librarian Tweeters.
Are you part of the Twitosphere? Add your Twitter account and make the library world aware.
How about coming up with a Twitter term for a Tweeting Librarian?
“It is quite likely that this Professor Goddard couldn’t hit a barn door with a charge from a shotgun at a distance of fifty yards, yet he presumes to hit the moon with a rocket sent from the earth.”
- “Audacity of Ignorance,” Carbonate Chronicle, October 24, 1921
“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
- Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969
Each month, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection brings you a Featured Topic, a collection of articles culled from the over 500,000 pages in the Collection. This July marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing… Continue reading ‘To the Moon!’
I had the pleasure of visiting the Estes Park Public Library for an AskColorado meeting. The facility is beautiful (and really aren’t all libraries?), and the surroundings enchanting. However, it was the unusual configuration of their catalogs that caught my eye.
These vertical catalog stations appear to run on magic…where is the CPU?
Thanks to Claudine Perrault and Mark Riffle for the detailed documentation of how these cool catalogs are set up: Continue reading ‘Cool Technology at Estes Park Public Library’
Congratulations to Monica Birrer (Spanish Peaks Library Director) and staff on the grand opening of their new library. The two day event began on Friday at 11am with Library Director Monica giving a stirring thank you speech to all involved in making this project a reality. The library was then presented with the “Community Energy Project of the Year” award from the Association of Energy Engineers for the library’s innovative efforts to incorporate green features into their newly renovated building. Shortly after, State Librarian Gene Hainer, gave the keynote address, and then the ribbon was cut. Take a peek inside the library.
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