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CVL Collections: 2023 in Review
Since 2016, the CVL Collections program has been helping organizations in Colorado (and now Wyoming!) share their unique historic collections …
Program Spotlight: Summit County Libraries’ The Wine & True Crime Book Club
We’ve asked libraries across Colorado to submit program they’ve run in the last year that they’re proud of and they …
Web Accessibility: Getting Started
While the specifics of Colorado’s web accessibility laws are ironed out, Marmot and the State Library have collected some tools …
Digital Repository Top 5: the most popular newly digitized materials of 2023
As we near the end of 2023, we’re sharing the most popular items that the State Publications Library added to …
Author Diversity in the Book Club Resource
The table below shows all the authors whose work is in the Book Club Resource collection, tags that reveal some …
Guest blog: “Things have really changed…”
This was authored by Maria DeHerrera, Library Director at Conejos Library District, recipient of the inaugural Colorado State Library travel …
The K-12 Library Connection: Sharing School Library Impact
An overview of strategies and tools for telling the story of your library program through data, research, and anecdotal feedback using resources in the Colorado State Library’s School Libraries Communication Toolkit and school library reports,
Growing the Digital Historic Newspaper Footprint of Colorado
Giving to the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection grows access to Colorado history for everyone! Our modern society has become accustomed …
Certification Opportunity: Brain Fitness with Ageless Grace
Demographic trends in Colorado are indisputable: we’re getting older and we’re staying put. According to the Colorado State Demographer’s Office, …
Mapping Colorado: Libraries Supporting Their Communities
Happy holidays, data detectives! At Library Research Service (LRS), we’re wrapping up our posts this year by charting libraries that took …
Colorado’s governors: William Ellery Sweet
Our series on Colorado’s governors continues with William E. Sweet, Colorado’s 23rd governor. Governor Sweet served one term from 1923-1925. …
1886 Colorado Brand Book Now Digitized
Thanks to the helpful folks over at Denver Public Library, we were able to borrow the original 1886 Colorado Brands …
Cataloging Fundamentals Program
Staff members at Colorado’s small and rural libraries take on many roles—from programming and story time to circulation and cataloging—sometimes …
Holiday baking at high altitude
With Thanksgiving kicking off this year’s holiday season, it’s time for many Coloradans to turn their kitchens into bakeries. But Colorado’s altitude can present a problem for holiday baking.
Program Spotlight: La Vista Correctional Facility Library’s Ukulele in Visiting
We’ve asked libraries across Colorado to submit program they’ve run in the last year that they’re proud of and they …
A Mini Post on Small Multiples
Small multiples certainly struck me as a confusing term the first time I heard it, so let’s jump straight into …
CHNC: The Largest Digital Collection of Colorado-based Japanese American Newspapers
You may remember that last January the CHNC team added the Denver Japanese newspaper the Rocky Mountain JIHO, 1969-1997. First …
Chatalogers: A Colorado Catalogers Discussion Group
Calling all Colorado catalogers: are you looking for the opportunity to “talk shop” with your peers on a regular basis? …
Bite-sized Escapism – Reading Short Stories with Your Book Club
The short story is a form of fiction that has been with us for centuries, beginning with the legends, fables, …