Friday, June 13, 2008

The Colorado State Library and Special Population Resources

The Colorado State Library website is a great resource for learning more about special populations in Colorado libraries. The site contains a list of promising practices, a diversity toolkit, useful links, news about upcoming events and much more.

http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/librarydiversity.htm

Richard Lyda
Outreach Services Librarian
Arapahoe Library District

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Welcome to Special Populations Interest Group

Welcome to the Special Populations Interest Group

The Arapahoe Library District serves many Special Populations throughout its District. Our Library patrons include Bookmobile patrons at Neighborhood and Senior Stops, the Homebound and Older Adults, Jail patrons at the Arapahoe County Detention Center, our diverse and multicultural patrons at all of these locations and at our area libraries, our English as a Second Language student patrons, English Conversation Circles patrons, our Spanish language collection patrons and our Russian language collection patrons, and more.

This Special Populations Interest Group is a forum for you to share your successes and to get district wide networking help with your concerns.

Welcome and I look forward to working with each of you.

Cindy McFadden
Outreach Services Coordinator
303-792-8999, ext 12603