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Powering Small Libraries

AspenCat is a shared catalog (integrated library system-ILS) that includes more than 115 libraries and more than a million items. Participating libraries share more than 4,500 physical materials and ebooks each month.

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Sending and receiving right from your back door

CLiC’s key service that delivers physical materials between member libraries throughout the state, as well as providing connections to resource sharing in other states. Learn More!

Growing Library Staff

CLiC is dedicated to providing affordable talent development opportunities in-person and online for library staff.   
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On the ground for libraries across Colorado

CLiC is meeting libraries at their point of need with regional, in-the-field consulting. Consultants work with libraries to support them with operations, governance, community engagement and more.   
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Saving money? Yes please!

CLiC enables libraries to have access to electronic resources, databases, supplies and more through discounts negotiated by CLiC.   
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Pushing the envelope

Staff members constantly scan the horizon for new opportunities beyond our core services. We'll even experiment, try out new products and services to see if they meet libraries' needs. Learn More!

Why CLiC?

Whether your library is large, small, or somewhere in the middle, CLiC makes things happen. We are your colleagues and part of the Colorado library community.   
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Public Library Policy Collection

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!

Annual AspenCat Users Group Meeting Happening October 8th and 9th

Mark your calendars for our annual in-person AspenCat Users Group Meeting.  We are keeping tradition by hosting this event at the Community College of Aurora’s CentreTech Campus. [Read more…]

Gale Interactive Science

Wouldn’t it be great if students could run chemistry experiments until they understood precipitates or sublimation… without using the chemistry lab?
How about dissecting the ligaments of the forearm… without the actual cadaver?
Now they can!!

CLiC has partnered with Gale to bring you discounts on two resources that will save your institution money; while allowing your students to repeat lessons until they understand at anytime of day or night. Check out this less than 2 minute video for a sneak peek.

Spreading Joy to Colorado Libraries

If you attended a 2018 CLiC Spring Workshop no doubt you are still feeling the happy afterglow of connecting with peers and hearing fresh ideas to use in your library.

But, just maybe you’ve forgotten the details [Read more…]

Libraries Under Attack

Demanding A Ban on Digital ContentSchools and libraries possess the expertise and responsibility to choose, license/buy and manage digital content useful to their local communities.

Some individuals in Colorado are attacking libraries and librarians for doing that work and are claiming that databases and e-book collections are full of pornography. Previously these individuals have demanded a statewide ban of all databases and certain e-book products. Lately, the demands are for schools and libraries to discontinue their licenses to products from EBSCO, Gale/Cengage, Proquest, Overdrive and other library vendors.

This 2024 updated guide “Demanding a Ban on Digital Content: A Guide for Understanding Challenges to the Electronic Resources in Your Library or School” will help the reader better understand these claims. It offers practical information, strategies and facts for libraries and schools to use in discussing this topic with their local communities.

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Related: CLiC Dropped from Lawsuit

Keywords: Guide, Toolkit, Banning, Censorship, Freedom to Read, Intellectual Freedom