Valerie Horton, Executive Director and Kira Zimmerman, Courier Manager, will present a free webinar about upcoming courier pricing changes, new money-saving delivery options for Kansas and Missouri libraries, and courier best practices and tips.
When: Thursday, May 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM
What: A webinar presentation and Q&A session
Where: Visit the “Lunch Lessons with CLiC” page on 5/12 for the link to join the webinar -
http://clicweb.org/learning-on-your-schedule/lunch-lessons
If you have any questions about this webinar, please contact Kira Zimmerman at kzimmerman@clicweb.org or 303-422-1150.
Hope to see you there! Robin Dean, Continuing Education Coordinator
Only one week left to fill out our tri-annual membership survey on how CLiC is doing. If you haven’t answered the survey, there is still time. Go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D2VRV9H
The survey is broken into sections: CLiC overall, courier, continuing education, cooperative purchases, AspenCat, and consulting/communication. So you can fill out the section where you interact most often with CLiC.
Thank you for your participation! Valerie
eDiscover the Classics –
Libraries can download 500 cleaned up MARC records for the most popular Project Gutenberg titles for their library catalog. This project was a joint effort by the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and Douglas County Libraries. In an effort to provide inexpensive eReader content through a library catalog, the partners downloaded nearly 500 popular Gutenberg ebooks. The records were extensively cleaned up both electronically through Marcives, Inc and manually by local catalogers.
The records can be downloaded into any library catalog. Check it out at: eDiscover the Classics website
The Colorado Library Courier is pleased to announce an expansion to our statewide courier service. Starting in January 2011, Blue Sky Express will link Colorado’s courier to most Kansas libraries. Blue Sky Express is similar to our highly successful COKAMO delivery service with Missouri libraries. COKAMO saved Colorado libraries $140,000 in USPS shipping cost last year.
The EXTRA GOOD NEWS is that Blue Sky Express is both cheaper to run and faster than COKAMO. Blue Sky Express will run 5 days a week! The only cost to participating libraries is for extra high volume charges if the items you ship via Blue Sky Express increase the total you ship on the Colorado Library Courier by more than 3,000 items in a year.
All current COKAMO members will automatically be included in Blue Sky Express. Instructions on how to set up OCLC are forthcoming.
For non-OCLC libraries, you can ship to any participating library on the Kansas Courier. All Kansas libraries will be added to the Courier Management System so you can find libraries and print labels as needed. We also believe with the help of the State Library that we can link SWIFT to Kansas’ statewide ILL system (KICNET) by the end of 2011.
Resource Sharing continues to thrive and grow in Colorado!
Valerie Horton
Executive Director
Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC)
Short Article in Wall Street Journal on Oct 17th
Libraries Offer Free Resources
By Jonnelle Marte
Exerpt: “Looking for free financial resources? Go to the library.
Many libraries offer free access to financial websites that require paid subscriptions. Others provide free financial-literacy programs.
One site is Morningstar.com, where library patrons can access analysts’ research on stocks and mutual funds and other portfolio tools. The accounts at the libraries are similar to Morningstar’s Premium memberships, which cost $179 annually, but don’t include the ability to save a personal portfolio or sign up for alerts.”
Libraries Mean Business! Win $500, $250, or $100 in business or job-hunting resources from CLiC. We want to find out which library (serving under 100,000 residents) has the best business or job-hunting resources or services available to its community.
Submit your pick on the CLiC Facebook page. Here’s how: 1) Leave a wall post on the CLiC’s Facebook page with the heading “Libraries Mean Business”; 2) add your nominee library’s name; and 3) add a URL to the library’s business resources web page or any other information that highlights your nominee’s strength in supporting a community. If you don’t have a lot of resources, just a great idea, add that idea instead!
If you are not on Facebook add a comment to this blog page with your nominee.
We’ll collect all the nominees (feel free to nominate your own library), and after we have our nominees — we’ll let you pick the winning libraries! Let’s get back to business…
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=130132357027152&ref=ts#!/clicweb?ref=ts
Upcoming webinar series on WebJunction.org: Libraries and Economic Development Webinars in this series, which is sponsored by the Business Special Interest Group (BSIG) from the Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL), the Colorado State Library, and the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), and WebJunction, will run for three Tuesdays in August.
• How to Make Your Library Entrepreneur-Friendly
When: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 – 4:00 PM
During this first session with Christine Hamilton-Pennell you will: 1) Learn how important entrepreneurs and small businesses are to economic growth. 2) Hear case studies of several public libraries and librarians across the country that have developed successful initiatives to support local entrepreneurs. 3) Understand the traits and motivations of library staff who have successfully developed partnerships and service offerings with the local business community. 4) Identify specific steps your library can take to connect with and support your local business community.
Continue reading ‘Free “Libraries Mean Business” Webinars!’
AspenCat is consortium of 30 smaller libraries in Colorado. Since November 2009, these libraries have been migrating to a Koha-based integrated library system solution supported by PTFS, Inc and CLiC. About half of the libraries have migrated to the union catalog, and another 15 will be moving over this fall. Evaluations show patrons like the system, and they love the easy access to a much larger collection. The average AspenCat collection is 15,000 items. When all libraries have migrated, patrons will have access to nearly half a million items. But even half-way through the migration, the numbers of borrows between libraries in impressive. Here’s a chart to date of resource sharing growth. aspencat statistics
Continue reading ‘Resource Sharing Works: The AspenCat Model’
“For release: July 29, 2010
The Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program is accepting applications for 55 subsidies of $200 from LSSC Candidates to enroll in and complete LSSC-approved courses. Candidates who receive a subsidy award will receive a $200 reimbursement after they pay for, and complete, an LSSC-approved course.
Continue reading ‘LSSC Accepting Applications for Course Subsidies’
June 23, 2010
To: All Library Employees
From: Jon Walker, Executive Director
Subject: Planning for 2011
This year is turning out to be different at the library.
What I mean by this has nothing to do with how much our libraries are being used. Libraries are busier than ever. Our libraries are bustling places. I could not be prouder of a group of employees than I am of each of you who work conscientiously each day to deliver excellent library service.
Indeed, use of our libraries this year is greater than it ever has been. In every major measurable category we are at all-time record levels. Checkouts of books and other library materials is +22%. The number of people visiting our libraries is +20%. Attendance at library-sponsored programs and events is +41%. The number of people logging-on library public-access computers is +34%. We are seeing double-digit increases across-the-board.
Continue reading ‘A Letter Pueblo City-County Library Employees from Jon Walker’
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