Friday Grab Bag, May 9, 2025
The Friday Grab Bag is a weekly series that highlights fun, unique, and interesting happenings in Colorado libraries, and includes …
Resource Sharing
Information on activities and initiatives that promote the sharing of materials, programming, skills, and talents among Colorado’s library and cultural heritage communities.
Fast Facts – Kits and Book Club Sets
The Colorado Book Club Resource and the CSL Kits collection is contained within the same CSL Resources catalog – these …
How Well Do You Know Your Library’s Community?
An LRS tool can help you track down community data and test your knowledge. At Library Research Service (LRS) we …
Friday Grab Bag, May 2, 2025
The Friday Grab Bag is a weekly series that highlights fun, unique, and interesting happenings in Colorado libraries, and includes …
Colorado state parks: Spinney Mountain
Next up in our series exploring Colorado’s state parks is Spinney Mountain! Spinney Mountain State Park features a 2,500 surface …
Book Club Author Suggestion: Ian McEwan
Brief Bio: Ian McEwan (b. June 21, 1948) is a British novelist, short story writer, playwright, and screenwriter perhaps best …
Friday Grab Bag, April 25, 2025
The Friday Grab Bag is a weekly series that highlights fun, unique, and interesting happenings in Colorado libraries, and includes …
Identifying common aspen ailments
It’s that time in spring when trees all over Colorado (depending on the altitude) are sprouting new leaves! While it’s …
Updating the Colorado Interlibrary Loan Best Practices
Colorado’s Interlibrary Loan Best Practices (developed in 2004 and revised in 2015) are in need of an update to fix …
Friday Grab Bag, April 18, 2025
The Friday Grab Bag is a weekly series that highlights fun, unique, and interesting happenings in Colorado libraries, and includes …
Friday Grab Bag, April 11, 2025
The Friday Grab Bag is a weekly series that highlights fun, unique, and interesting happenings in Colorado libraries, and includes …
Art Exploration Kits
Capture your patrons’ art curiosity with these traveling pop up exhibits!
Colorado’s governors: Teller Ammons
Our series on Colorado’s governors continues with Teller Ammons, Colorado’s 28th governor. Governor Ammons served one term from 1937-1939. As part …
Friday Grab Bag, April 4, 2025
The Friday Grab Bag is a weekly series that highlights fun, unique, and interesting happenings in Colorado libraries, and includes …
Valuing Your Library
How do you begin to put a price tag on a library and its services? While many of us may …
SWIFT 2025 Fast Facts
Check out the inaugural edition of SWIFT Fast Facts by Library Research Service at LRS.org! SWIFT is a service of …
Friday Grab Bag, March 28, 2025
The Friday Grab Bag is a weekly series that highlights fun, unique, and interesting happenings in Colorado libraries, and includes …
Growing container gardens in Colorado
It’s officially spring! Which means that many people around Colorado are beginning to plan out their gardens. If you’ve got …
Friday Grab Bag, March 21, 2025
The Friday Grab Bag is a weekly series that highlights fun, unique, and interesting happenings in Colorado libraries, and includes …
Book Club Author Suggestion: Julia Alvarez
Brief Bio: Julia Alvarez (b. March 27, 1950) is a Dominican American novelist, poet, essayist, and children’s author who is …