Colorado Virtual Library
Free Online Learning Opportunities for December 2024
Thank you Maine State Library for the curation and sharing of this great resource. (All events have been converted to MST time – but please verify …
Free Online Learning Opportunities for November 2024
Thank you Maine State Library for the curation and sharing of this great resource. (All events have been converted to MDST time – but please verify …
Colorado Book Club Resource Collection Policies and Information
Mission Statement The Colorado Book Club Resource (BCR) is a program of the Colorado State Library (CSL). CSL helps libraries, schools, museums, and other organizations …
Key Information for Account Holders
Updated Oct. 2024 This page contains important information and expectations for users of the Book Club Resource and CSL Kits collections (usually an assigned Primary …
Accessibility Statement – Colorado Book Club Resource Online Catalog
The Colorado State Library follows Web Accessibility Guidelines developed by the Governor’s Office of Innovation and Technology (OIT). We are committed to making this site accessible …
Free Online Learning Opportunities for May 2024
Thank you Maine State Library for the curation and sharing of this great resource. (All events have been converted to MDST time – but please verify …
CSL News, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
Autism is Welcome Here Webinar Recording
CSL’s Suzi Tonini offers insights, guidance, and strategies for working with neurodivergent youth Last week, Suzi Tonini, CSL’s School Library Consultant, facilitated an excellent session …
Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
DEI Efforts From the Bottom Up: Trial and Error in a Branch-Level Committee
Guest Post by Ellie Nash, Library Specialist Lead at Arapahoe Libraries While Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a growing field, with an increase in businesses …
Start Up a U/X Café at Your Library
Is traditional patron feedback not enough to help you make your library’s website amazing and accessible? It’s time to think outside the box and start a U/X Café!
Serving the Underserved: Homelessness and Library Service in Trinidad, Colorado
Mallory Pillard, Director of the Carnegie Public Library in Trinidad, received a National Library of Medicine scholarship through the Colorado State Library and the Colorado …
Locals Receive Diploma Thanks to Free Library Program
This is a guest post by Kayah Swanson, Public Relations Specialist at Pikes Peak Library District. COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – Ana Bojorquez was beginning to …
Essential Website UX to Improve Relevance, Value and Accessibility
This is a guest post by Tiffany Clendenin, Operations Manager at Broomfield Library. On a recent UX panel at CALCON, I presented on website content …
Technology in Libraries & Education
The State Library offers many resources and the expertise of several consultants to librarians and teachers interested in better integrating technology into their programs and classes.
Library Leadership & Development
Experts on library leadership, library law, and institutional and correctional libraries.
Continuing Education & Professional Development
Opportunities for Continuing Education and Professional Development in person and online.
School Libraries Development
Training and consulting to help educators to create meaningful, collaborative, and challenging learning opportunities for their students.
Mailing Lists
Colorado State Library’s Network & Resource Sharing unit hosts numerous mailing lists for the Colorado library community, and can create new lists for eligible libraries and library-related organizations.
Colorado Libraries Collaborate, CSL News, Resource Sharing
Colorado Libraries Collaborate (CLC) Celebrates 25 Years of Sharing
Colorado Libraries Collaborate (CLC) has been Colorado’s reciprocal borrowing program since 1991. (You may know it by its older name, Colorado Library Card.) CLC allows …
Mailing Lists 101
Consider the humble mailing list: it may look like regular email, but this communications workhorse has the power to create communities centered around specific topics. …