Dr. Stripling will be leading us in a conversation about creating schoolwide and districtwide approaches to teaching information literacy.
Beyond the Basics: Reading Engagement for ALL Students
Discover how to create a schoolwide reading culture that serves every learner—from gifted students to multilingual learners to those with disabilities—through a research-backed, nine-step action plan.
From Audit to Action: Authentic Representation in Library Collections
Learn how to shift from reactive diversity audits to proactive selection practices using the Representation Screening Tool, a framework for evaluating authentic representation before purchase.
Colorado Public Library Standards and You
Colorado Public Library Standards serve as a tool in defining and measuring a CO public library’s success in fulfilling its mission and role in the community. Participants will have opportunity to select one of the 10 areas to take a deep dive into the standard and perform an analysis of their public library’s work to inform strategic planning, funding needs, and best practices.
Living Our Values: Exploring Core Values of Librarianship
Libraries are the cornerstones of the communities we serve. How do libraries contribute to democracy? This interactive session provides an opportunity to reflect on the core values of librarianship and the Library Bill of Rights.
Positioning Libraries for the Future: Trends to Impact
What do public libraries look like in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? Are you excited about the possibilities in the future or cringe at what is to come? Our libraries serve as hubs of ideation, creativity, and well-being. Staff will consider trends happening both in our libraries and communities today and how we might adjust our services, spaces, and resources for tomorrow.
Basic Website Accessibility
Babi Hammond Simple guidelines for creating accessible web content, including …
Partners in Accessibility: A Quick Guide to Connecting with CTBL
Providing access to materials is important to all libraries—but what can you do when you have a blind or print disabled patron in need of more than what you have? Call in CTBL for support! Learn about how the Colorado Talking Book Library can help you and your community get the materials you’re looking for including braille, large print, and audio books—we serve the entire state for free!
Who’s Pushing Your Buttons?
It’s inevitable, at some point in your week you’ll run into one of them. Those people who seem to turn a wonderful day into a dark one. You know these people; they seem to be chronically critical, belligerent, indignant, angry, or just plain rude. But it doesn’t have to be that way for you. Learning tactics for dealing with negative or difficult people will help you survive in the workplace.
Improv-ing at the Library: Using Improvisational Comedy to Improve Library Culture
What does improvisational comedy have to do with library service? More than you might expect! Hear stories, learn models, and try improv activities that apply in libraries. Staff will discover new ways to engage with humor and play. Get ready to reframe interactions with 5 techniques from improv comedy that can uplift you, your users, and the library.
Partnering to Provide Library Services Jails and Prisons
The incarcerated in Colorado’s youth and adult correctional facilities are some of the most appreciative library patrons anywhere. 97% of them will be released someday, and many struggle with basic information needs. The key to helping the incarcerated successfully reenter society is library outreach.
Playing Well With Others At Work
We all know that children learn through play, but what about adults? Research shows that when humans, at any age, play, they learn and grow into healthy, happy, well-functioning individuals. Indeed, embedding playful work techniques into your day can lead to greater creativity, productivity, and resilience in you and your library. And knowing others’ play styles will help build better teams, improve collaborative work, and create a more enjoyable work culture.