This year’s grants totaled nearly $257,000. All grants addressed a goal in the long-range plan to improve library services to Colorado students and adult learners that support educational achievement and lifelong learning.

Awards were made to:

• Academy School District 20, Summit Preschool and Middle School Programs, Library and Literacy Partnership Program, $7,300
  At-risk middle school students will serve as mentors to at-risk preschool students. They will meet biweekly to select books, read together and engage in questioning activities.

•  Adams State College, Nielsen Library, Mobile Learning Center and Laptop Loan Program, $18,400 
  The Nielsen Library program will improve access to technology in the San Luis Valley and help the underserved student population use resources at Adams State College. Training sessions will be offered at public schools, community centers, retirement centers and nursing facilities.
   
• Arapahoe Library District, Parent and Child Literacy Project, $9,462 
  This grant provides library services to the children of non-English speaking adults. The grant targets children aged three to 11 in the Sheridan branch and new Glendale branch.
   
• Boulder Valley Family Literacy Program, General Education Development (GED) at the Library: A Gateway to More, $18,012
  Free adult GED study classes will be offered in the Boulder and Lafayette public libraries
   
• Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL), Enhancing Colorado Library Story Times: Early Literacy Skills and Messages, $17,922
  Early literacy and library story time practitioners will train library staff in 10 small to medium sized public libraries on the principles, skills and messages of the “Every Child Ready to Read” program developed by the Public Library Association.
   
• Colorado Springs School District 11, Penrose Elementary Library Media Center, Using Digital Media and Storytelling to Improve Literacy, $8,445
  Students will improve literacy skills through writing stories and scripts which they will then use to produce digital media projects.

• Denver Public Library, Central Branch, Technology Empowerment Program, $20,000
  Customers will have improved access to computers, computer training classes and individual assistance in a new technology training room.
   
• Douglas County Libraries Foundation, Book Start, $20,000
  Early literacy training will be available for child care providers in 48 child care facilities. Twenty-five volunteers will be trained and 1,200 children will receive close to 5,500 hours per week of literacy instruction.
   
• Estes Park Public Library Foundation, Estes Valley Partnership to Expand and Enrich Informal Education, $18,533
  Estes Park Public Library in partnership with various organizations will provide educational after school programs for children attending grades four through eight.
   
• Fort Collins Regional Library District, Book Express, $20,000
  The library district will partner with the Poudre School District to pilot a book by mail program. This program will target approximately 800 preschool through sixth grade children in rural areas of the library district.
   
• Fort Lewis College, John F. Reed Library, Fort Lewis College Research Commons, $14,350
  An electronic collection of original student work consisting of research papers, portfolios and creative works will be formed. The digital repository will serve as a publishing, research and learning instrument for students.  
   
• Johnson & Wales University, Connecting Information Literacy to Learning, $19,929 
  Students will have access to a larger computer lab where they will develop skills in obtaining, evaluating, and using information in an effective and socially responsible manner.
   
• Loveland Public Library, Loveland Kids Love to Read: Loveland Public Library Literacy Outreach, $16,581
  The Loveland Public Library in collaboration with the City of Loveland Housing Authority will provide 90 minute bimonthly literacy programs with groups of children ages three to 14 years of age in six low income complexes in Loveland. Their goal is to have 1,632 contacts with resident children. 
   
• Pikes Peak Library District, Ready Set Read! $16,374
  Staff training will be provided to assist parents, teachers, and tutors in the identification of appropriate reading level materials for students. All new and existing materials will be remarked and shelved according to reading level making them easier to locate.
   
• Pueblo County School District 70, Vineland Elementary School Media Center, The Missing Link-Linking Student Achievement with the Community Library, $1,517
  Students and their parents will have access to an upgraded and expanded Web based Accelerated Reader Program that will encourage and foster student achievement with the use of existing community library resources.
   
• State Library’s Special Populations & Issues Committee, Community Conversations, $30,000
  Ten to 12 local libraries will create programming that, via outreach to community leaders, partners, and diverse participants will foster dialogue and lifelong learning about cultural differences.

For more information regarding these grants, contact Jean Marie Heilig, LSTA Coordinator at 303-866-6731 or heilig_j@cde.state.co.us

For more information:

• -Fast Facts: Colorado Public Libraries Help Children Get Ready to Read
• -Closer Look: Early Literacy Programs and Practices at Colorado Public Libraries
• -Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL)

Note: CLEL members will be presenting a session on early literacy at the Youth Services workshops in October.  Register now for one of the 5 statewide workshops.

Teacher librarians, classroom teachers, specialists, and anyone else who is interested is invited to attend.

There will be 12 all-day workshops around the state:

• Thursday, October 23, 2008:  ALAMOSA
• Tuesday, October 28, 2008:  LA JUNTA
• Thursday, October 30, 2008:  BRUSH
• Tuesday, November 11, 2008:  LOVELAND
• Thursday, November 20, 2008:  DENVER
• Thursday, December 4, 2008:  WESTMINSTER
• Thursday, December 11, 2008:  CASTLE ROCK
• Tuesday, January 13, 2009:  STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
• Wednesday, January 28, 2009:  GRAND JUNCTION
• Thursday, February 5, 2009:  PUEBLO
• Friday, February 6, 2009:  COLORADO SPRINGS
• Tuesday, February 17, 2009:  GLENWOOD SPRINGS

Be sure to register at least one week in advance! Registration opens Wednesday, October 1, 2008, and is $25 per person (this includes the cost of breakfast, lunch, and materials). We hope to see you there!

EBSCO trainers will also come to your library to conduct training.  This may be scheduled with your CLiC consultant.

Each of these training opportunities is FREE and we hope you will take advantage of as many as you can.  Your questions may be directed to Lisa Priebe at CLiC, lpriebe@clicweb.org, 303.422.1150.

9am to 4pm

$50 per person (lunch on your own in Golden)

RSVP: Beth Heller, Preservation Librarian, 303.384.0110 x13

bheller @ americanalpineclub.org

This workshop furnishes the practicing archivist with skills to identify, assess, and preserve history caught on film.
Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to:

* Perform basic identification of film materials and evaluate their condition and contents;
* Set preservation priorities for film materials and get accurate estimates for preservation work;
* Identify sources of preservation funding and discuss methods for integrating motion picture materials into access, exhibition, and outreach efforts;
* Begin thinking about film as an essential and approachable part of your collection, as well as the historical and cultural record archivists work to preserve;
* Regard future acquisitions of film with confidence and a positive attitude.

Who should attend? Anyone who wants introductory experience with and knowledge of film materials.

Snowden Becker is a co-founder of the Center for Home Movies and the international Home Movie Day event. Along with her colleague Katie Trainor, she leads the “Becoming a Film-Friendly Archivist” workshop for the Society of American Archivists. Her doctoral studies at UT’s School of Information are generously supported by fellowships from IMLS and the Donald and Sibyl Harrington Foundation.

Ms. Becker will be in Colorado to assess and preserve the 16mm film collection at the American Alpine Club. This project has been generously supported by AAC Board Member Travis Spitzer, and by Robert David of Cinema Lab.

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Join Louise Alcorn of West Des Moines Public Library, contributor to Recipes for a 5-Star Library Cookbook, and author of Wireless Networking: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians, as she chats about her experiences with wireless, including considerations around the ever-important wireless acceptable use policy.
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After the webinar: wireless and acceptable use policies discussion
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Our Library’s Foray into Public Access Discussion

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The tutorial is barely two weeks old and already 30 people have taken it! This is a great response rate and I’m glad to see that so many people are interested in the fine workings of resource sharing in CO. If you’ve taken the quiz and are still waiting for your snazzy certificate, I apologize…each quiz is carefully hand graded by yours truly, and May is a busy month for us. Those should be out soon!

We also have the tutorial available on CD for those of you that might have slower Internet connections. Just email me at rdean(at)clicweb(dot)org and I’ll get a CD in the mail to you.

The next class being offered is “Budgeting Basics for Non-Profits.” This class is on May 16th in Pueblo. Here is the link to registration:
http://host.evanced.info/clicweb/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=21

If you have any questions, please contact Shelley Walchak swalchak@clicweb.org or 719-650-1090.

CLiC andthe Map Library staff at CUB are running workshops about these Sanborn maps and map librarianship in general. Many people have attended the short overview sessions at our CLiC Spring Workshops. Also check out the last Accidental Map Librarian Workshop in Gunnison May 11.

We have also created a wiki for our Accidental Map Librarian Workshops you can check out at : http://maplibraries.pbwiki.com/

For my first post, I thought I’d share some exciting news about DU’s MLIS program. The program has just undergone an extensive curriculum revision, which was approved last month. It isn’t just the classes that have changed—the degree concentrations have also been overhauled.

There used to be four concentrations:

• Library and Information Resources and Technologies (LIRT)
• Archives and Records Management (ARM)
• School Library Media (SLM)
• Knowledge Management (KM)

There are now five concentrations:

• Information Science & Technology (IST)
• Knowledge Management (KM)
• Reference and User Services (RUS)
• Resource Description and Access (RDA)
• Archives and Records Management (ARM)

The new concentrations haven’t been posted to the DU LIS site as of this post, but the new course rotation is up for 2007-2009. In the new plan, classes that were formerly lumped into LIRT have been split among RUS, RDA, and IST. New classes have been added to all the concentrations, and the IST track is almost entirely new classes. It’s good to see cataloging get the recognition it deserves with its own track (RDA). KM and ARM were the least affected, but new courses were added to each of those concentrations to update and focus the subject matter.

The absence of an SLM concentration seemed strange to me at first, but I realized that most of the SLM classes had been absorbed into RUS. For those people looking to get Teacher Librarian certification, DU is starting a School Library Cohort program in Summer 2008, which looks like it will be a great experience for people with teacher certification looking to become teacher librarians.

Overall, I’m impressed with the new course plan. It brings a lot of courses up-to-date and provides more instruction on new technologies that are essential for anyone entering the library field. I’m eagerly awaiting more detailed course descriptions so I can see exactly what the new classes have to offer.