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Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC)
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Library
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-related organization.
CLiC is a member-services organization dedicated to serving
our 438 member libraries with innovative, collaborative library
support services.
Our focus is on:
-- Running the Colorado Library Courier, including out-of-state service through
COKAMO and Blue Sky Express.
-- Providing a wide array of continuing education opportunities
-- Offering professional and technical consulting
-- Creating money-saving shared cooperative purchases for databases and other
library materials
--Supporting AspenCat, an open-source, union catalog integrated library system
-- Assisting other organizations with financial, events and grants management.
Areas of concentration
- Library Physical Delivery http://www.clicweb.org/library-courier
- Resource sharing
- Continuing educationContinuing educationContinuing education is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada...
- AspenCat - Koha-based union catalog for 32 libraries http://www.clicweb.org/aspencat
- Cooperative purchases
- Building the Colorado Library community
- Consulting
Vision Statement
Colorado Library Consortium: A Model Statewide Library Cooperative
Mission
CLiC: An innovative, collaborative organization that empowers libraries and library staff to better serve their communities.
CLiC will achieve this mission by working towards the following goals:
1. “Expedite the discovery, selection, and delivery of information and materials to library patrons in Colorado”.
2. “Provide and support learning opportunities for ongoing professional development resulting in improved services in libraries”.
3. “Identify and support initiatives to strengthen the Colorado library community”.
Core Values
CLiC staff
- Executive Director: Valerie Horton
- Assistant Director: Lisa Priebe
- Regional Consultant - Western CO: Ross Callender
- Regional Consultant - Southeast CO: Judy Van Acker
- Automation Services Consultant: Shannon O'Grady
- Project Manager: Kira Zimmerman
- Office Manager:
- Administrative Assistant: Julie Teglovic