Welcome
Welcome to the Colorado State Library, a division of the Colorado Department of Education.
We provide leadership and expertise in developing library-related policies, activities, and assistance for school, public, academic, and special libraries. A primary goal of our efforts is to improve the ability of libraries to provide quality services to all Coloradans.
Read more about our purpose and activities.
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Announcements
Visit the State Library's Booth at the CAL Exhibit Hall!
Libraries. A place of endless possibilities. The heart of many
stories.
Two people meet in nonfiction and fall in love. A boy finds
salvation in his local library and becomes the first in his
family to attend college. A suburban mother of four relies on
the library's expert reference service to start her own
business, and later is named "Entrepreneur of the Year."
Come visit the State Library's booth at the CAL exhibit hall to
share YOUR story! You can write it, type
it, or tell it (we will have flip cameras). Read
fantastic stories of your colleagues and celebrate the many ways
libraries transform lives.
Need more reason? Submit YOUR story and become eligible to win
one of these fabulous prizes!
- A "flip" digital video camera
- Library stories journals
- A tricked-out messenger bag
- Summer Reading Fun Pack
2009 Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL) Conference:
- CSL
at CAL Schedule (PDF)
CSL presentations and involvement at the 2009 CAL Conference. Stop by our booth on Friday and Saturday to hear about the latest services and resources we can offer Colorado libraries. - Colorado
Libraries Blog (PDF)
A joint blog between the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Library Consortium. -
Libraries: a Place of Endless Possibilities
(PDF)
Stop by our booth and tell us how libraries have transformed your life. We can attest as to how they have transformed our lives!
ALA and Safeway Love Libraries
Through a partnership with the American Library Association
(ALA), Safeway Inc. is rolling out five Safeway-brand cereal
boxes with back-panel content about libraries and librarians.
The cereal is available at Safeway’s 1,500 U.S. stores across
the U.S.
Closer Look
Report on Public Libraries and Web Technologies
The Library Research Service has released its most recent Closer
Look Report, "U.S. Public Libraries and the Use of Web
Technologies." This report details our findings about
what public libraries are doing on the web, and the
characteristics that "early adopters" share.
School Library
Survey
The deadline has been extended for the Annual School Library
Survey. School librarians now have until Monday, November 30th
to respond to the online
survey. To date, 556 of the estimated 1,400 school libraries
have started the survey. For complete instructions visit
LRS.org or send questions to
LRS@LRS.org or call
303-866-6900.

