New Titles in the Book Club Resource Collection

…by Zitkala-Sa Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Šá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering the reservation’s children a free education…. (Search hits: 5 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 61.35)

Trustee Corner – December 2020

…Intellectual Freedom (ALA OIF) Intellectual Freedom: Issues and Resources (ALA OIF) Challenge Support (ALA OIF) Intellectual Freedom Manual, Tenth Edition (ALA OIF) Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) United for Libraries… (Search hits: 20 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 60.97)

New Book Club Sets by Colorado Authors!

…Then Killing Godiva’s Horse is right up your wheelhouse.”-Colorado Sun. Finalist, Thriller, Colorado Book Awards, Colorado Humanities Center for the Book, 2019. Winner, Mystery-Crime Fiction, New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, 2019…. (Search hits: 5 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 58.72)

Interview with OUT FRONT Magazine Co-owner, Addison Herron-Wheeler

…its kind in US history. Founded in 1976 by Phil Price, a University of Colorado Boulder student, OFM remains an important voice in the LGBTQ+ rights movement. As part of… (Search hits: 6 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 54.83)

Colorado Governors

…researchers in locating information on Colorado governors throughout Colorado history. Helpful resources include: Executive Orders. CoSPL has the complete set of A, B, and D series Executive Orders for the… (Search hits: 3 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 48.04)

Share Your Community’s Story Online with CVL Collections

…Digital Creation Kits, which include scanners, digital audio recorders, and more! Participation Any library, museum, archive, agency, society, or cultural heritage organization in the state of Colorado with a collection… (Search hits: 7 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 1 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 145.59)

Touring Colorado’s Collections: Free Online Access to Aspen History

…June 1-6, 1959. Courtesy Aspen Historical Society, 2017.045.0004. Photograph of the hand-painted schedule for the Aspen Music Festival for the week of July 18-23, 1958. Courtesy Aspen Historical Society, 2020.053.0005…. (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 155.47)

Trustee Corner – April 2020

…best practices, ask questions, seek feedback, and more. From March 19, 2020, to June 30, 2020, the United for Libraries membership requirement to participate in online discussion forums will be… (Search hits: 7 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 45.02)

Schools and COVID-19: In-Person, Remote, or Hybrid?

…on COVID-19 in Colorado, including case data and public health orders, see the state’s official COVID-19 webpage. Update, December 17, 2020: The Governor’s Back-to-School Working Group has just released a… (Search hits: 2 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 32.03)

Time Machine Tuesday: School District Organization

…and documents concerning the history of school district organization in Colorado. A Report on School District Organization, written by the Colorado Department of Education’s Morris Danielson, is a particularly helpful… (Search hits: 7 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 131.13)

Protecting Our Environment

for the Surface Coating Industry Fact Sheet on Mercury in Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) A Guide to Environmental Regulations for Abrasive Blast Cleaning Operations Oil and Gas Industry Spills and… (Search hits: 1 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 33.56)

December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month

…Influence of Drugs and Alcohol Traffic Stop Summary Enforcement Period Reports (DUI checkpoints) Colorado Drugged Driving Fact Sheet WEBSITES http://www.noduicolorado.org/ https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/csp/alcohol-drugs https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/csp/traffic-safety-statistics https://www.codot.gov/safety/alcohol-and-impaired-driving https://www.codot.gov/safety/impaired-driving/druggeddriving [added 3 June 2021; was https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/marijuana/driving-and-traveling]… (Search hits: 7 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 43.67)

Broadband – Bag of Tricks

…1.6) 1.6 Mbps to each user. Library EDGE (http://www.libraryedge.org/) provides examples of the math with their benchmarking. You can also check out Toward Gigabit Libraries (https://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/technology/bag-of-tricks-toward-gigabit-libraries/) for more information on… (Search hits: 7 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 43.56)

Time Machine Tuesday: 50th Anniversary of Earth Day

…student participation. Earth Day 1970 was a success. “Groups that had been fighting individually against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss… (Search hits: 5 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 43.51)

Resources for Book Clubs on Indigenous Peoples’ Day…and beyond!

…to Send Rain Clouds,” “Crow’s Sun” by Duane Niatum, “Beading Lesson” by Beth H. Piatote, Sherman Alexie’s “War Dances,” and other tales that explore cultural borders and intersections, dramatizing the… (Search hits: 6 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 43.44)

When the Black Panthers Denver Chapter Leader Made TV History

…Remembering Lauren Watson, Force Behind Denver’s Black Panther Party https://www.westword.com/news/denver-black-panthers-legend-lauren-watson-dies-11441984 FADE TO BLACK (from 1995) https://www.westword.com/news/fade-to-black-5055530?showFullText=true Community Control: Civil Rights Resistance in the Mile High City https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=psi_sigma_siren Read about Black… (Search hits: 8 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 39.77)

Food, Nutrients, and Health & Safety

…interesting topics covered in these fact sheets include what to do if your freezer stops, how to identify nutrition quackery, how to preserve foods by canning or freezing, what to… (Search hits: 3 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 39.66)

Save Money by Reducing Energy Use

…really contribute to your energy bill. When it is time to replace, remember items like refrigerators, washers, dryers, furnaces, TVs and computers have two price tags–purchase price and lifetime energy… (Search hits: 3 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 37.35)