Today, Kit Carson County is probably best known as one of Colorado’s most productive agricultural counties, and as the home of the Kit Carson County Carousel – the oldest working carousel in the state and the only antique carousel in the country with original paint, but the history of the county and the region contains […]
Category: CVL-Collections
Are you looking for a way to share digital collections like yearbooks, photos, and oral history recordings online? The CVL-Collections program can help you create and maintain a content management system (CMS) to store digital versions of the items in your collections and make them easy to find online. Additionally, CVL-Collections facilitates participation in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) via the Plains to Peaks Collective (PPC), which helps libraries, archives, and museums share unique digital collections with a wider audience.
This page features news about the CVL-Collections program and participants. To learn more about CVL-Collections, and how your institution can participate, visit cvlcollections.org, or contact Marisa Wood at mwood@coloradovirtuallibrary.org.
Touring Colorado’s Collections: Clear Creek County Digital Collection
For a lot of Coloradans, Clear Creek County is a place that you spend a lot of time while you are on your way somewhere else. Tucked into the valley that I-70 weaves through just west of the Denver Metro area, the towns of Clear Creek are familiar because we’ve whooshed (if we’re lucky) by […]
Touring Colorado’s Collections: Voices of Ignacio Digital Collection
If you haven’t spent time exploring the southwestern part of our state, you may not be familiar with Ignacio Colorado. Nestled in the southeast corner of La Plata county, Ignacio is a tri-ethnic community of about 800 people with a rich history and many stories to tell. Ignacio Community Library began the ‘Voices of Ignacio’ […]
Share Your Community’s Story Online with CVL-Collections
The Colorado State Library is pleased to announce the launch of the CVL-Collections program. This program was created to help libraries and cultural heritage organizations that want to share digital collections like yearbooks, photos, and oral history recordings online, but don’t have the resources to support a content management system (CMS) locally, and are not […]