The ASCC Consortium’s new integrated library system, Koha hosted by Liblime debuted last week. The new AspenCat catalog currently includes records from the seven pilot libraries.
Send out a big congratulations to:
Akron Public Library
Dolores Public Library
Manitou Springs Public Library
Nederland Community Library
Ouray Public Library
Wellington Public Library
West End Schools: Nucla and Naturita
They all worked extremely hard over the last several months and their diligence shows!
AspenCat includes over 100,000 items that are readily available to any patron in the participating communities. AspenCat will be growing to nearly 700,000 records from 22 more libraries by September 2010.
AspenCat can be viewed at www.aspencat.info.
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About Shannon
Greetings! I am the Northeast Consultant for CLiC. Keep this Colorado Library blog in your Favorites and check it out on a regular basis if you want to be an in the know librarian. About me? I love reading (duh!), bike riding, running, traveling, spending time with my spousal unit :) and my two awesome cats—Turkish and Mia.
Email: sogrady@clicweb.org
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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?
Want people to actually be able to find you when they google you up? 
I was just reading the “American Libraries Direct” newsletter and saw this about Google Profiles.
Danny Sullivan writes: “Ever searched for yourself on Google and come away dissatisfied, especially if someone else you share a name with seems to dominate the results? Ever looked for someone else and been disappointed that you couldn’t find the person you wanted? Google’s new Profile Results that launched April 21 aims to correct both problems.”
Google’s description, “A Google profile is simply how you present yourself on Google products to other Google users. It allows you to control how you appear on Google and tell others a bit more about who you are. With a Google profile, you can easily share your web content on one central location. You can include, for example, links to your blog, online photos, and other profiles such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and more. You have control over what others see.”
I had no idea. Wow, do I feel left behind. I’ll bet some of you are already reading a wovel. I was listening to NPR this morning and it’s the first time I’ve heard the word.
The story discussed Firstworld: here’s a quick explanation from the publisher site.
“We give you an installment a week. You vote on what we write next. Does the heroine kill her lover? Will the zombies catch the soliders? Is the box empty, or is it filled with bees? You vote. You decide.”
(Wovel is the name for a pretty inventive snow shovel too.)
So are you hooked on a wovel? Writing one? Let us know.
This is so fun! An homage to the old detective movies. Some of you probably listen to Guy Noir, Private Eye on A Prairie Home Companion?
Kris Johnson, AskColorado Coordinator at the Colorado State Library wants you to know that the credit for the production of the public service announcement (PSA) goes to Dee Vasquez and Danny Walter at Pikes Peak Library District. In addition to helping to facilitate the PSA, the CAL Marketing Committee has been working with AskColorado for the past year on re-branding efforts. Kris said “I can’t tell you how helpful this partnership has been to our organization and I want to express my appreciation to current and former committee chairs Kelly Johnson, Katie Klossner, and Shelley Walchak for all their leadership on this project.”
Broadcast ready versions of the PSA for airing on local TV are available. Let Kris know if your library would like a copy. Email her at johnson_k@cde.state.co.us.
Our own ALA President-Elect, Camila Alire forwarded this article to LibNet. Great recognition!
Here’s the 1st paragraph but click on the picture to go to full the article.
“Forget about that image of librarians as a mousy bookworms. More and more of today’s librarians must be clever interrogators, helping the patron to reframe their question more usefully. Librarians then become high-tech information sleuths, helping patrons plumb the oceans of information available in books and digital records, often starting with a clever Google search but frequently going well beyond.”
I rarely feel like a mousy bookworm…how about you?
Would you say the sounds of your library are serene? If not, take a listen here.
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ATTENTION ALL COLORADO LIBRARIES
Here’s a fabulous chance to strut your library’s stuff at ALA Midwinter!
The Colorado Association of Libraries and Denver Public Library are cosponsoring a booth at ALA Midwinter and will be running a continual slide show featuring you. Any Colorado library, library association or service group is welcome to submit content for a slide. The slide show will be archived online, making it available for attendees after the conference and for anyone that wants to find out why Colorado libraries are so great!
The Rules:
- No more than two images (subject to resizing and formatting)
- 15 words of text
- One URL
- One logo
Our editor, Megan Kinney, will assemble your elements into a slick looking slide to go into the presentation that will be rolling in our ALA MW booth.
By December 1, email your images (two images, one logo) as attachments and in the body of the email, include your 15-word text and url to: mkinney@denverlibrary.org with the Subject: ALAMW Slide – Your Library Name
This effort organized and supported by CLiC, CAL, DPL and ALA Councilor Shelley Walchak.
Dewey is coming to the big screen (reportedly starring Meryl Streep). Library Cat is a movie about a stray cat’s impact on an Iowa town. “Abandoned as a kitten in the Spencer Public Library’s book-return box one January night in 1988, Dewey was adopted by librarians and named by the town in a write-in contest. He lived happily ever after at the library, sleeping in the stacks (he liked Westerns), riding the book cart, leaping from fluorescent light fixtures and sitting on patrons’ laps.”
Being the crazy cat person that I am, this will be a must see. Do any Colorado libraries out there have a library cat? I wish I could bring my cat Mia to the office…but she probably wouldn’t care for the drive in.
I haven’t read the book yet. If you have, please leave a comment and tell us what you thought.
Please send me (sogrady@clicweb.org) your CLC success stories or you can leave a comment on this blog posting. Stories will be posted on the CLC site too.
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