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.

The Colorado State Library will be closed
November 25 – 27 for the Thanksgiving holiday
and a Governor-mandated furlough day.

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.