I am an Administrative Assistant and Web Content Coordinator for the Colorado State Library at the Colorado Department of Education.
During the last week notices were sent concerning grant money that is available for libraries and other community facilities through the USDA’s Rural Development Community Facilities Grant Program. After meeting with local USDA Business and Community Programs Directors, the Colorado State Library would like to share some information with you concerning this opportunity.
Download a PDF of this information
- This money is being offered through ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).
- The funds will help rural communities up to 20,000 in population to improve their community facilities (including libraries), enhance educational opportunities, and improve economic conditions. Specifically, eligible purposes include:
- Construct, enlarge, extend, or improve essential community facilities
- Obtain necessary equipment for the operation of these facilities
- Reasonable fees such as engineering, legal, administrative environmental analysis, surveys, and planning
- Cost of acquiring interest in land; rights, such as water rights, leases, permits, and rights-of-way Continue reading ‘ARRA Grant Money Available for Rural Libraries’
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’
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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!
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.
- Register for the 2010 summer reading program and request FREE materials. (Libraries that have already registered will receive their materials by the end of January.)
- Apply for a $175 Mini-Grant. Applications are due January 29, 2010.
- Weigh in on the slogan and theme suggestions for summers 2012 and 2013.
Contact Michelle Gebhart or Patricia Froehlich with questions.
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