CLiC & Connect 2025

February 7, 2025 by

CLiC & Connect 2025 – In-Person Rural Meetups

CLiC’s in person rural meetups provide time to connect with colleagues from rural and small libraries, exchange practical ideas that are specific to YOU, and have fun!

Registration cost is $30 and includes lunch.

2025 CLiC & Connects will be held:

  • Southeast: Friday, April 25, 2025 in Pueblo
  • Southwest: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 in Durango
  • Northwest: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 in Glenwood Springs
  • Northeast: Thursday, May 15, 2025 in Fort Morgan

The registration deadline for each event is one week prior. Learn more and register here.

Questions? Just ask at clichelp@clicweb.org

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Spotlight Your E-Resources

January 16, 2025 by

Join us for next session in the series and power up for e-resources fun!

CLiC’s Virtual E-Resources Conference Series next session is February 25, 2025 with an hour of multiple sessions that’ll energize you to spotlight your e-resources!
This is a time for libraries and vendors to come together to learn from one another and share knowledge.

As libraries, we spend a lot of money on electronic resources. It can be a challenge to promote and display these in our print-centric organizations. This exciting session marks the start of a year dedicated to exploring new and creative ways to showcase your e-resources.  

 

What will you learn?

1. How to use products in practical ways, not just features. Real-world examples.
We have all sat through how-to demonstrations, showing the functions of a database or other e-resource. These are NOT those kinds of sessions!

2. How to promote electronic resources.
We have all used the traditional approach of creating or using vendor-produced bookmarks and flyers. Those certainly have their place, but only go so far.
Discover creative ways to highlight e-resources that go beyond the usual bookmark!

3. How to set up electronic resources on a library website to promote discoverability.
With so many products to manage and to serve up to our communities, we often resort to A-Z lists of e-resources. This approach only works if the patron/student knows exactly what they’re looking for. Discover how to optimize your website to better highlight and promote your e-resources.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 2-3 MST
Topic: Marketing

Registration Open

Schedule

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 2-3 MST
Topic: Accessibility

Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 2-3 MST
Topic: Collection Management and Statistics

Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 2-3 MST
Topic: Marketing

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Hiveclass

July 8, 2024 by

CLiC’s newest cooperative purchase brings fitness to your libraries!

Hiveclass. Explore to Bee More

Patrons have 24/7 unlimited access to a database of short-form videos to help them learn fundamental skills in a wide variety of sports.

Check out this short 1:32 minute video to learn more.

  • E-learning platform with 17 sports/activity units
  • 1,800+ skill-based video lessons
  • Mindfulness, Yoga, & Nutrition
  • Reading Hive for sports literature
  • Fully available in English & Spanish
  • Assistive technology for neuro & physio-diverse learners
  • Programming guides and resources for library staff

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Guidance from CLiC

April 21, 2023 by

Guidance is a CLiC Away

Our Colleague on Call team is easy to reach, and responsive. Here’s the contact page…

But you should know we produce useful guides and FAQs, too. See our ConC Expertise page, then please reach out! Our consultants are all too happy to visit with you.

 

 

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Public Library Policy Collection

August 6, 2018 by

Created specifically for small and rural libraries.

It began with an observation: every week, we see email messages on listservs asking, “Hey, does anyone have a policy on [topic] they’d be willing to share?” followed by lots of “YES! I’m interested, too!”

An idea took root. CLiC’s Sara Wright and ARSL President Kieran Hixon (2018) started fertilizing their plan. What if there could be a central place where policies could be stored, searched and retrieved (but without a lot of complication)? How would it be nurtured and grown? Who would tend to this evolving tree of knowledge?

And the Tech Gnomes at CLiC went to work with their Digital saws and Hexcoded glues and Bit-sized hammers…

A Public Library Policy Collection web site was grown — a mix of organic matter and online carpentry. The collection is the tree; the interface is the tree house.

We hope you enjoy playing in it.

   

Created by CLiC staff with ARSL enthusiasm. Hosted and managed by CLiC!

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