“The business-supported Tax Foundation lists Colorado 6th best for business among all 50 states in its 2010 Business Property Tax Index. (Factoring in all taxes, Colorado ranked 13th best in the Tax Foundation’s overall Business Tax Climate Index.)
Residential property taxes in Colorado are low. According to the Tax Foundation the property tax levied on the average Denver home is 0.53% of home value. In comparison Los Angeles is 0.50%, Cheyenne 0.65%, Miami 0.90%, Bergen County, New Jersey 1.63% and Dallas 2.12%. Colorado homeowners enjoy low property tax rates.”
Source: Colorado Municipal League http://www.cml.org/pdf_files/release_062810.pdf
“WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report finds America’s public libraries posted gains in several key areas of technology deployment. Libraries nationwide report they’ve seen an increase in public use of online services, particularly to support job seeking and e-government transactions, and have made some gains in adding public computers and improving Internet connections available to patrons. However, snowballing funding cuts at state and local levels are forcing thousands of libraries to literally lock away access to these resources as they reduce operating hours.” Read more here
The study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the ALA, can be found online at www.ala.org/plinternetfunding.
CLiC and the Colorado State Library wish to announce that they are entering into several new cooperative initiatives to assure continuity of statewide services.
While sparked by BCR’s closure coming later this year and the transition to LYRASIS, these cooperative initiatives also arose as opportunity. CLiC and the State Library, two key library service organizations, see this as a time to become more coordinated and interconnected, ultimately to provide even better services to Colorado libraries.
In practice, CLiC will replace BCR’s previous role by assisting the State Library in two ways: one, by providing limited fiscal and human resources functions; and two, providing new physical space for servers running Plinkit, AskColorado, SWIFT, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, and other Colorado Virtual Library services. CLiC’s role will be to provide organizational support for these excellent services, which will continue to be managed and operated by State Library personnel.
Leaders within both organizations agree: the more we work together to support each other’s services, the better we can serve Colorado libraries and library patrons throughout the state.
Eugene Hainer Valerie Horton
Colorado State Library – CDE Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC)
THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR CALC SUMMIT 2010: “Collaborate Like You Mean It!” is May 14th. Register Here.
A draft of the CALC Summit 2010 conference program is now available online, including program and poster descriptions Here.
We still have room in our two preconferences on 1) creating digital videos for you library and 2) technology for non-techies. The preconferences are open to all types of library staff. Register Here.
The ASCC Consortium wishes to announce we have successfully loaded another 7 libraries into AspenCat. The AspenCat union catalog now has 220,000 items. In March, the 8 pilot libraries borrowed 454 items from each other making for very happy patrons (see comments below). To search the Koha-based system, go to: http://www.aspencat.info/
Continue reading ‘AspenCat Adds Seven More Libraries to Union Catalog’
We encourage Colorado library staff and friends 
to add a “Save Libraries” Twibbon to social networking sites. It’s easy and quick. Log on to Facebook, then go to: http://twibbon.com/cause/Save-Libraries/Facebook. Follow the handful of instructions on the page.
Here’s the link for Twitter: http://twibbon.com/cause/Save-Libraries/Twibutes
We can practice advocacy for libraries every day in small ways, please join us in this effort to keep libraries out front and center!
Hotel registration for the CALC Summit 2010 – Collaborate Like You Mean it – has been extended until April 23. Register for only $99 tax-free, hotel prices increase significantly April 24th! http://www.calcweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=140
Did you know that the CALC Summit 2010 pre-conference workshops. . .
- Are relevant to library staff from any type of library?
- Are open to people who don’t plan to attend the 2010 Summit?
- Only cost $40 each?
The workshops will be held May 19 at Red Rocks Community College. Interested? Read on for session descriptions and registration information!
Continue reading ‘Learn More about Library Technology and/or Video Creation’
From the Grand Junction’s Daily Sentinel, April 15, 2010.
Excerpt: “Redlands resident Ken Goss just shrugs, not terribly impressed by decisions he made on the Colorado River that put him briefly in a hospital and might have saved a family of four outside Moab. “I had to,” Goss replied, when asked why he chose to jump in the icy river to help a father, mother and two young children, ages 11 months and 3 years, who had flipped their raft Friday afternoon near Utah Highway 128, roughly 15 minutes east of Moab. “There was just no way I was going to be able to throw anything at them that far out,” Goss said. Goss, 38, a former firefighter in his native Pennsylvania and now a driver for Sentinel Express, a delivery service provided by The Daily Sentinel, was headed west around 2 p.m. with family on a day trip when he said he caught a glimpse from the roadway of an overturned raft.”
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A group in Colorado is testing our social networking – can we make Facebook trends go viral? If you’re on Facebook, please help us by joining the following trends:
TIME TO BE CREATIVE: What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of the word: LIBRARY? Change your status to whatever word you thought of.
Join this group:
I’ll Bet I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Think Libraries Are Important
http://www.facebook.com/search/?flt=1&q=libraries&o=69&sid=1802322095.987583913..1&s=130#!/group.php?gid=110609512299912
Thanks, Valerie
You are invited to attend of the CALC Summit 2010 “Collaborate Like You Mean It” preconferences on creating digital content and exploring new technologies. While the content is geared towards academic libraries, everyone can learn useful skills in these hands-on, collaborative workshops.
Monkey See, Monkey Do: An introduction to digital video uses in academic libraries
Paul Betty
This workshop explores how academic librarians can make use of digital video for purposes of instruction, promotion, and specialized course content. From the editing room to the course management system, this workshop will explore everything you will need to know to create, publish, and distribute high quality digital video content for your library.
Techie Tools for Non-techie Types
Lyda Ellis, Andrea Falcone
This workshop will introduce free web tools that academic librarians can use to increase classroom participation, enhance classroom presentations, create user-generated content, and interact with teaching faculty. The tools, which are applicable in both traditional and online settings, will include Twitter, Xtranormal, Prezi, Spicy Nodes, Jing, Embedr and Text-the-Mob. Participants will get hands-on experience with the tools and will learn different ways to apply them in the workplace.
REGISTER HERE
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