Interest Groups
- Academic Libraries Interest Group
- Adult Service Interest Group
- Business Service Interest Group
- Children and Teen Services (CATS) Interest Group
- Futurist Interest Group (FIG)
- International Library and Cultural Exchange Interest Group
- Makerspace Interest Group
- Mentorship Interest Group
- Paralibrarian Interest Group
- Public Libraries Interest Group
- Queer Interest Group (QIG)
- Reader's Advisory Interest Group
- Services and Outreach to Underserved Populations (SOUP) Interest Group
- School Libraries Interest Group
- Special Libraries Interest Group
- Summer Reading Interest Group
- Sustainability Interest Group (SIG)
- Writing Interest Group (WIG)
- Western Slope Interest Group
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Western Slope Interest Group
Purpose: To provide the opportunity to Western Slope CAL members to network, collaborate, and participate in the wider CAL community.
Need: Colorado’s Western Slope is a large and diverse section of the state that lacks representation on CAL Committees and Interest Groups due to the distance and travel difficulty to meetings that primarily take place on the front range. Western slope CAL members miss out on the benefits of in person meetings and events, including networking, idea sharing, and assuring rural library representation. The Western Slope IG would bring the needs of WS librarians to CAL and information from CAL to the Western Slope.
Context: To address issues particular to the Western Slope and foster community among Western Slope library professionals.
Strategies: Arrange meeting locations convenient to WS professionals, use technology to create connections when a meeting is not taking place, include CAL West Region representative in all planning.
Guidelines:
- Formal, quarterly meetings
- Meet at varying locations throughout the Western Slope, logistics arranged by the closest WSIG member
- If an in-person meeting cannot happen, a virtual meeting will occur in its place
- Promote diversity in committee membership in terms of race, ethnicity, type of library, location, sexual orientation, gender identity, and physical abilities
Western Slope Interest Group Leadership Group | |
Western Slope Interest Group Co-Chair Laurin Arnold | Western Slope Interest Group Co-Chair Christine Campbell |