The Project Management webinars with Pat Wagner are getting full, so please REGISTER NOW for all 3 sessions!
- Project Management Foundations: What’s the Big Fuss?
January 18, 12:00-1:00pm
- Project Management Case Studies: Who Forgot to Measure the Bookcases?
February 1, 12:00-1:00pm
- Proof of Concept: Applying Project Management Principles to Your Workplace
February 15, 12:00-1:00pm
This three-part series is for anyone who works in a library at any level. Although it is meant as an introduction, experienced project managers might appreciate the refresher and discover new ways to present information to their teams. We encourage you to attend all three, but we welcome you attend whichever programs you can.
Published by
Michelle on
December 1, 2011 in
Continuing Education, Front Range, General, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Western Slope and programs.
Tags: CLEL, CSL, SRP, Summer Reading, training, workshops, youth services, YS.
The State Library offered 6 interactive, informative youth services workshops in Rifle, Eagle, Pueblo, Englewood, Boulder, and Dolores in October and November. A total of 132 attendees (an unfortunately timed snowstorm near Pueblo lessened attendance) from 47 library jurisdictions came to learn about the 2012 summer reading program and early literacy, and to network with colleagues.
Kathy Barco, Children’s Librarian at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County 
Library System in New Mexico, presented the lively morning session highlighting the 2012 summer reading program theme of night time at all 6 sessions. Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL) members Jana Ackerman, Lisa Chipouras, Laura Baldassari-Hackstaff, Melissa Depper, and Becky Campbell offered informative, useful afternoon sessions on early literacy, including an overview of the newly revised Every Child Ready to Read program.
Handouts from the workshops are available, including Becky Campbell’s early literacy presentation. Continue reading ‘Fall Youth Services Workshops a Success!’
On behalf of Sarah Koehn Frey, Director, Northern Saguache County Library District:
On October 13 I attended a preconference workshop at the CAL conference entitled “Project Compass: Libraries at the Front Lines of Workforce Recovery”. The presenter was Jennifer Pratt, who is the Chief of Library Development for the State Library of North Carolina.
Jennifer navigated through enough of the Project Compass website to really pique our interest. I need to do much more searching to find all that is available there, but I’m happy to know about this resource and can direct patrons to it. During the presentation I was sitting beside Maria DeHerrera of the Costilla County Library District. She and I represented 2/3 of the three poorest counties in Colorado, so we were especially interested in how our libraries can be of help to our unemployed patrons. Continue reading ‘Workforce Recovery at the CAL Conference’
The Colorado State Library is pleased to announce a new online learning series, CSL In Session. The series is made up of free, hour-long virtual classes on a broad range of topics, delivered once a month. These won’t be your standard information-dump-style “webinars” – we’re planning interactive online classes where participation is central to the learning, and where learners go away with distinct takeaways that can be immediately applied in your libraries and in your professional lives.
We’re kicking off with:
Taking Off the Blinders: Customer Service Lessons from Other Industries
Wednesday, November 16 at 12:30 p.m.
Description: Be honest. How often do you look ONLY at other libraries for examples of customer service strategies and enhancements? This session will broaden your view, drawing together ideas, lessons and examples of customer service strategies from non-library industries and organizations. When it comes to brick-and-mortar and online services alike, libraries MUST look beyond their own backyards to ensure future success and to better serve their communities—or risk irrelevance. Continue reading ‘New Online Learning Series: CSL In Session’
Published by
Michelle on
October 4, 2011 in
Continuing Education, General, Instruction, School Libraries and conferences.
Tags: 21st century learning, cde, CLiC, Highly Effective, Power Libraries, professional development, school libraries, student achievement.
How can school librarians have a positive impact on student growth and achievement? What strategies and tools will enable them to get there?
The Colorado Dept. of Education (CDE) and the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) are partnering to offer two workshop opportunities (as well as an opportunity for six $100 scholarships to cover registration and a substitute for the day).
Workshop Date/Locations:
Don’t be left out in the cold! Join us for the last NRS Roadshow of the year at the Ignacio Community Library on Thursday September 15, 2011 from 8 AM -12 PM.
Registration is required by September 9, 2011.
What is a roadshow you ask?
Simply a really fun way to network with your library peers, learn more about unique library services (Plinkit, AskColorado/AskAcademic,SWIFT, Colorado Historic Newspapers, Colorado Virtual Library), and eat free food!
Can you think of a better way to spend a fall morning?
Still curious? Check out the pictures of past roadshows on Flickr! You won’t be able to resist!
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