Is traditional patron feedback not enough to help you make your library’s website amazing and accessible? It’s time to think outside the box and start a U/X Café!
Category: Website Creation & Hosting
The State Library’s Network & Resource Sharing department (NRS) provides websites free-of-charge for libraries, museums, and related organizations. NRS can help you create your site, host it for free, and deliver hands-on training to help you keep your site up and running. More than 40 Colorado Libraries and other organizations are using this service already.
If you’d like to learn more about the State Library’s website services, contact us using our online form, or e-mail Kieran Hixon or Babi Hammond directly.
Looking for a way to share digital collections like yearbooks, photos, and oral history recordings online? We can help with that too! Contact Marisa Wood for more information.
Essential Website UX to Improve Relevance, Value and Accessibility
This is a guest post by Tiffany Clendenin, Operations Manager at Broomfield Library. On a recent UX panel at CALCON, I presented on website content changes that can help support our public library obligation to offer service to all patrons in a user-centered and responsive way. The following details a few aspects that can be […]
Google Analytics Basics: Users, Sessions & Pageviews
If you work with websites at all, you have probably seen reports from Google Analytics detailing how your site, or some part of your site, is performing in terms of users, sessions and pageviews. Maybe you even produce such reports for others. But what, really, do those numbers mean, and how accurate are they? You […]
Some of Our Clients
The State Library’s Website Creation & Hosting service provides websites for a number of library organizations, including the sites shown below. Many Colorado Libraries also use our services. To see a list of our library sites, visit Meet the COLibraries Community.
Meet the COLibraries Community
Take a peak at some of our COLibraries clients!
CVL Sites Redesigned
The State Library’s CVL Sites is a free service that creates and hosts websites for libraries, museums, and related organizations. Sites for Voice Preserve, One Book 4 Colorado, and StoryBlocks were recently redesigned to be easier to use on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. Check out the new designs below. To learn more about the […]
COLibraries Levels of Service
The State Library works with COLibraries clients to determine which level best fits your needs. The decision for which level your needs will be based on the tech skills at your institution, website needs, and resources available. [accordion openfirst=true clicktoclose=true tag=h2][accordion-item title=”Level 1″] Fully supported web service. For institutions with limited staff and financial resources. […]
COLibraries Integrations and Plugins
New Titles Display for PIKA Libraries If you are an AspenCat member, COLibraries offers special integration for PIKA featuring book cover streams based on your library’s newest tiles, children’s materials or any other designated collection. Return-On-Investment Calculator COLibraries also offers a special plugin to COLibraries users as well as any library using WordPress. The Return […]
Website Creation & Hosting Inquiry
Use this form to contact us with questions about our website creation and hosting services.
COLibraries Samples and Template Pages
COLibraries can help you with templates for content (and some content you can use!) Using RSS feeds (and columns) can give your institution up-to-date information customized for your community. Kids Page – This page highlights a multi-column option and the importing and displaying content from any RSS feed. Content can include your own blog, or […]