As we entered Meadowlark School in Erie, Colorado, we were greeted by several eighth grade students and Marnie Steele, Curiosity Coach and Teacher Librarian. Amy Bahlenhorst, Research Analyst for Library Research Service, and I followed them up a wide staircase as they chatted cheerfully. You couldn’t miss the Curiosity Center, as each letter of the […]
Ron Schermacher, the Idea Lab Educator at Ignacio Community Library in southwest Colorado, was once a regular library user who would check out books about local history from the library. He admits that, before working at the library, he held the common misperception about library work that there would be time for reading on the […]
When entering Peak to Peak Charter School’s library building in Lafayette, Colorado, visitors are met with a colorful floor-to-ceiling mural. As Suzi Tonini (School Library Leadership Consultant), Amy Bahlenhorst (Research Analyst), and I took it all in, Carla Flanhofer, Teacher Librarian for sixth-12th grade and our host for this morning in the library, explained to […]
A stunning line of jagged peaks comes into view during the drive west across Custer County towards Westcliffe, Colorado. Once you reach the main street of this town brimming with mountain charm, the public library can be found tucked between a shop selling furniture, gifts, and antiques, and a gallery. Amy Bahlenhorst, Research Analyst for […]
The quiet room on the second floor of a mountain community’s public library is an unlikely place to attend a punk rock concert, and yet that is exactly what occurred during Estes Valley Library’s after-hours Tracks & Stacks event last year. In fact, the library hosted six bands or musicians during a single evening culminating […]
Wrapping up this blog series with a recap of the visualizations, analysis tools, and public library data we’ve covered.
Read about the importance of ILL in prison libraries by hearing from people who are currently or were formerly incarcerated.
Read the new LRS guidelines to answer this question, and don’t miss the latest data trends in reference transactions.
A heat map shows how some libraries’ hours differ in the summer, and AI helped (a little) to analyze the data.
Libraries are updating their audiobook collections, so let’s take a deep dive into the data tracking these changes.
