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Gilpin County Public Library Wins National Award for Excellence

Published by Michelle on February 3, 2010 in General, Public Libraries and funding. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

PLA has honored the Gilpin County Public Library (GCPL) with the EBSCO Excellence in Small and/or Rural Public Library Service Award. This award honors a public library serving a population of 10,000 or fewer that demonstrates excellence in service to its community.

GCPL will receive this year’s $1,000 award honoring its innovative and creative “artist-in-residence” program. Beginning in the summer of 2008, with the financial backing of the Friends of the Library, the GCPL offered a Poet-in-Residence to the community, who held a series of workshops for people of all ages on writing, reading, and appreciating poetry of many varieties.

This is the second year in a row that a Colorado library has won the EBSCO Award (it was John C. Fremont Library District in 2009).

View the press release (PDF)

Outstanding Public Library/Public Health Partnership Awards

Published by judy on January 11, 2010 in Public Libraries and funding. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Awards will be offered by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Mid Continental Region to recognize public libraries that have had successful public library/public health partnerships involving health information. Recipients will receive a $200 cash award or gift.

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Early Childhood Librarians Proposal Funded by IMLS

Published by Michelle on June 18, 2009 in Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Community Collaborations, Continuing Education, General and Instruction. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

A proposal to IMLS for full tuition and support for 10 Master’s of Library & Information Science students to become early childhood librarians was funded.  Funding from IMLS for the 3 year project is: $917,891.

This internal and external partnership represents several disciplines, practice areas, and institutions, including: LIS, Child Family & School Psychology, Fisher Early Learning Center, Marsico Institute, Colorado State Library, Arapahoe Library District, Douglas County Libraries, Denver Preschool Program, Clayton Early Learning Institute, and Family Educational Network of Weld County.

Contact Mary Stansbury at Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver for more information.

Colorado Blue Spruce Award Books Available for Summer Circulation

Published by Michelle on June 12, 2009 in Community Collaborations, General, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Teen Services and programs. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

The Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award recognizes the most popular books among middle and high school students in the State of Colorado. Teens nominate their favorite titles and select the winner – adults do not vote. All the materials needed to participate in the Blue Spruce Award can be found on this site, and may be freely printed and distributed.

Traveling book sets are available to all interested parties. If you don’t want to tie up circulation of your library’s copies, or if you don’t have a budget for multiple copies of all the titles, this is a great way to do a quick and easy display! We will send you, free of charge via courier, a complete set of the Blue Spruce nominees as well as booktalks for each title. Sets may be kept for three weeks and the borrower is responsible for arranging for return courier at the end of the loan period.

For more information about traveling book sets, or to schedule a delivery, contact Barb Kellogg.