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Check out Colorado State Parks
Check out Colorado State Parks
Check Out Colorado State Parks is a library loan program formed through a partnership between Colorado State Library and Colorado Parks & Wildlife. Through it, libraries provide a unique outdoor learning experience for library patrons and expands your library’s services. Borrowers are equipped with a parks pass and a backpack outfitted with a Colorado parks guide, naturalist field guides, activity cards, and other items to enhance their outdoor experience.
Since mid-2022, Cristy has been running this program as the operational and administrative lead for the state library and parks department partnership. Activities include budgeting for the program materials, responding to requests from libraries for new or replacement materials, performing assessment of the program and making evidence-based decisions for how it will run, exploring new and sustaining partnerships with relevant organizations and state agencies, developing programming and support for programming at local libraries across the state, and presenting on innovative library materials and partnerships.
Español for Library Folx - Language Learning Community for Library Staff
Español for Library Folx - Language Learning Community for Library Staff
Español for Library Folx was an eight-week language learning community and conversation circle for library staff in the state of Colorado, created by Cristy Moran and hosted by Colorado State Library*. This community is not a Spanish language course, nor is it intended to substitute for formal Spanish language instruction. It is intended for beginning to intermediate Spanish speakers or speakers with basic conversational fluency who work in library spaces and want to learn and practice Spanish contextualized for library work.
Since Fall 2023, fifty participants from libraries across Colorado have met in small cohorts over eight-week periods to learn and/or practice terms and phrases relevant to library work and library spaces. Sessions provide the opportunity for peer-learning and practice in a non-judgmental, supportive space.
The program includes:
Hour-long sessions once weekly for eight weeks via Zoom
Support for accessing and utilizing Spanish language learning materials
Opportunities to practice basic library service-centered Spanish with other learners in library contexts
Vocabulary Resources
Vocabulary Resources
*Note: A version of this program is being hosted by REFORMA Colorado where Cristy continues to administer and co-facilitate it.
Ageless Grace for Colorado Libraries
Ageless Grace for Colorado Libraries
Since 2023, Cristy has provided funding for certification of 18 library professionals in Ageless Grace, an evidence-based seated exercise program for brain health and neuroplasticity. Additionally, she has created a community of practice for peer-to-peer learning and resource sharing among practitioners in Colorado libraries with biannual meetings.
Identifying the needs of public library staff and professionals is the crucial first step of determining what resources to share, creating strategic partnerships to enable the creation or implementation of programs, and securing funding for supporting the training of practitioners. Through the first two years of her work as a librarian for librarians in Colorado, innovative services for older adults in aging bodies came up time and again in consultations and conversations. Ageless Grace is one of the products that Cristy identified as a potential tool for our libraries.
Leading seated exercise programs is not what most librarians and library professionals - or even our community members - envision as an activity for libraries. And yet, it is one that Colorado libraries have been excited to learn more about and have jumped at the opportunity to learn and facilitate.
Human Library
Human Library
In each year's 2018 and 2019 Human Library, over 200 visitors came to “check out” the Human Library’s “books.” The themes of the Human Library 2018 and 2019 were diverse identity and culture as described in Chantel Acevedo’s The Distant Marvels and in Richard Blanco's Prince of the Cucuyos, the featured books for the years. “Books” participated from within the Broward College community, including the Muslim Student Association, MSD Strong, Project RENEW, International Student Club, and Best Buddies. “Books” also came from local area groups including three “books” from Florida’s Lighthouse for the Blind, Democratic Women‘s Club, and more. The 2018 event was featured in the ProQuest blog at Cristy's invitation.
Annually in last week of March to support the North Campus English Department's wRites of Spring literary festival, since 2015, Victor Lawrence and Cristy Moran organized and facilitated the Human Library, inviting members of the public as well as college students to participate in our event. Organizing these events included ground-level operations on the day of and in the days leading to the event, but also took months of preparation including securing speakers through carefully and intentional developed community partnerships, gathering the support of cross-disciplinary and departmental college stakeholders, and promoting the event - and even the idea of the event - to community members.
College Read - Common Read Program & Events
College Read - Common Read Program & Events
From 2017 to 2022, Cristy was the collegewide chair of the College Read Committee, organizing the college's one book community read for the over forty thousand students across three physical campuses, international centers, and online college. College Read is a student-centered and community-building initiative that supports student success through engagement with reading at Broward College.
College Read creates a robust calendar of co-curricular programs to which multiple classes are invited to participate. We engage in literary enrichment learning activities and celebrate student achievements in writing & speech.
Between developing content for and facilitating programs, Cristy coordinated author events, storytelling workshops, student performance showcases and contests, and more.
Information Literacy for Faculty Training Content Development
Information Literacy for Faculty Training Content Development
Throughout the 2021-22 academic year, Cristy created in D2L Brightspace LMS - Published PDF of content module overview pages, includes videos published on YouTube made with Adobe Rush, Zoom, Captivate, PowerPoint, and Springshare
Audience: Educators (higher education) who teach Broward College's College's SLS (Student Life Skills) courses
This portion of an asynchronous instructor (faculty, adjunct, etc.) training for the SLS course provides an overview of "information literacy," its relevance to incoming/ new college students, a tour of the library (resources, services, all access points), a preview and walkthrough of the Library Research Menu* available for importing to all D2L course shells, supporting library guides, and the activities for learning in the student experience that instructors will be responsible for facilitating.
*Cristy is the author of the Library Research Menu for Broward College
Lessons & Activities for Educator Use
Lessons & Activities for Educator Use
Free and open full lessons, activities, learning experiences, and other instructional material to supplement or enhance learning in a variety of disciplines and subject areas.
All content is easily adaptable across grade levels, institution types, classrooms and learning contexts, and subject areas.
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