Published by
JTMarmot on
February 28, 2010 in
Academic Libraries, IT, Innovation, Public Libraries, School Libraries and Western Slope.
Tags: discovery layer, Lucene, MARMOT, opac, open-source, VuFind.
My son Peter illuminated a Colorado road atlas one day on our way to a pet store. His inscriptions are as gleeful as some of the comments I hear lately around Marmot, where we’re implementing VuFind as a next-gen OPAC.
In this and future posts I’ll tell the story of how we selected VuFind from a list that included AquaBrowser, Encore, Drupal SOPAC, and WorldCat Local. I’ll write about testing and launching open source software originally developed at Villanova University. We might blaze a few interesting trails, taking software currently running in university libraries, and adapting it to our multi-type consortium on the Western Slope.
“We’re getting open source!”
Continue reading ‘“We’re getting gerbils!”’
Welcome to February! A new month for all of us means a new Book of the Month for the SWIFT Book Club. Our pick for February is The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Hammett’s detective Samuel Spade is the quintessential hard-boiled gumshoe; he drinks, he brawls and he always gets the girl. Of course, once he gets her, he might just turn around and turn her in. This novel is an absolute must read for any fan of detective fiction or anyone who likes to read on the edge of their seat!
Read a full review of The Maltese Falcon here. For a full list of books available from the SWIFT Book Club, look here.
Elena Rosenfeld, Colorado Association of Libraries ALA Chapter Counselor, passed this press release on from ALA. Great statistics and information. How would you use this to advocate for libraries in your community?
New ALA report details economic trends in libraries and 2010 outlook
CHICAGO – At every turn, news reports and research indicate fairly dramatic changes in U.S. library funding, services and staffing – most occurring in the last 18 months. According to a new report prepared by the American Library Association (ALA), libraries of all types are feeling the pinch of the economic downturn while managing sky-high use.
Compiled from a broad range of available sources, The Condition of Libraries: 1999-2009 presents U.S. economic trends (2009), and summarizes trends in public, school and academic libraries across several library measures, including expenditures, staffing and services. The report also highlights trends in services provided to libraries by library cooperatives and consortia.
Continue reading ‘Conditions of U.S. Libraries: Trends 1999-2009′
(Posted on behalf of DeLilah Collins–E-rate Coordinator–Colorado Department of Education)
The Colorado Department of Education will hold a one day beginner E-rate training session on December 14, 2009 from 9am to 4pm. The training session will cover the basics of E-rate from the history of E-rate to completing forms. This training is open to anyone new to E-rate. Continue reading ‘E-rate Training Announcement’
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.
Published by
Michelle on
November 19, 2009 in
Academic Libraries, CAL, General, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Special Libraries, advocacy and conferences.
Tags: booth, CAL, CSL, exhibit, libraries, prizes, stories.
Libraries. A place of endless possibilities. The heart of many stories.
Two people meet in nonfiction and fall in love. A boy finds salvation in his local library and becomes the first in his family to attend college. A suburban mother of four relies on the library’s expert reference service to start her own business, and later is named “Entrepreneur of the Year.”
Come visit the State Library’s booth at the CAL exhibit hall to share YOUR story! You can write it, type it, or tell it (we will have flip cameras). Read fantastic stories of your colleagues and celebrate the many ways libraries transform lives.
Need more reason? Submit YOUR story and become eligible to win one of these fabulous prizes!
State Library at CAL schedule (PDF)
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