Platinum Sponsor

 Backed by more than four decades of global experience and with a focus on innovation and user experience, we provide AI-powered solutions that empower libraries to thrive in the digital age. From seamless cataloging and resource management to intuitive patron engagement tools, our solutions are designed to streamline workflows, enhance accessibility, and meaningfully connect with patrons. With our commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction, we are proud to be a trusted partner for libraries seeking to exceed expectations and deliver exceptional services to their communities.

 Diamond Sponsor

 EBSCO is a leading provider of research databases, e-journal and e-package subscription management, book collection development and acquisition management, and a major provider of library technology, e-books and clinical decision solutions for universities, colleges, hospitals, corporations, government, K12 schools and public libraries worldwide. We partner with our customers and other industry-leading organizations to improve research and outcomes through quality content and technology.

 Gold Sponsors

Gale shares your vision for meeting the needs of all communities.  Today, this includes supporting everything from K12 and academic learning, adult education, and career mobility to stimulating local economies through small business success and prioritizing equity and inclusion goals.  Gale supports the mission of libraries and advocates for their significance by assisting libraries in increasing their usage and showcasing tangible value.  

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Our programs for libraries helps patrons and staff seek knowledge, navigate the moment, and explore their passions and interests.

Niche Academy is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) that serves libraries—simplifying access to critical learning content for trustees, directors, staff, and patrons. Libraries can create learning experiences that integrate seamlessly with their existing online presence and track learner progress with powerful reporting tools. The platform also offers access to hundreds of expertly crafted, customizable tutorials on a broad range of subjects, like understanding a trustee’s role, dealing with book challenges, or using databases. The tutorial marketplace ensures every library, regardless of size, can benefit from the same training. Niche Academy’s easy-to-use interface facilitates effective trustee and staff onboarding, ongoing professional development, and public service enhancement, all while fostering a positive workplace and community culture. 

Skilltype is a cloud-based talent management platform designed for library professionals and their organizations. Founded in 2018, the software incorporates data and insights into professional and organizational development. Today, hundreds of libraries across 8 countries use Skilltype to identify their skill gaps, create personalized training pathways for employees, and share expertise within a consortium or state. Skilltype partners with over 100 training providers including Library Juice Academy, Springshare, and OCLC WebJunction to create a one-stop shop for library continuing education. With over 11,000 training resources across 600 skills and competencies such as artificial intelligence, diversity, equity, inclusion, cybersecurity, customer service, and more, it has become the most comprehensive skill development platform in the world. Headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Skilltype is qualified opportunity zone business (QOZB), certified minority-owned business enterprise (MBE), and SBA 8a disadvantaged business, offering unique compliance opportunities for state and federal agency procurement teams.

It is an honor to sponsor COLSA and we appreciate all of your work to support libraries across the country.  At WhoFi we believe community spaces, like libraries, hold the key to helping all of us live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives.   As such we are committed to helping them thrive through the transition to the digital economy and beyond.  This is accomplished by listening to our state and individual library partners' evolving challenges and working with them to deliver solutions to meet their goals.  Many challenges described and subsequent solutions involve ways to more easily understand and articulate how communities utilize the resources they provide.  By guiding our partners to the intersection of Data Lane and Story Boulevard they can more easily make data influenced decisions, reduce reporting burdens, free up staff resources, and aid in advocacy efforts.  Please do not hesitate to reach out as needs arise.

 Friends of COSLA Sponsors

Counting Opinions (CO) specializes in robust state library agency data solutions, encompassing quality data capture, reporting, and sharing. From annual PLS reporting to IMLS and custom solutions including Grants, Literacy programs, Registration forms, Count Weeks, etc. CO's offerings are described as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). CO is dedicated to meeting the data capture, management and reporting needs of state library agencies, and others including comparable agencies in Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere. CO also supports individual public, school, and academic libraries and associations. 

Noteworthy is CO's commitment to simplifying customer data processes, ensuring consistent, quality data while reducing staff burden. Additionally, CO prioritizes data security and provides exceptional customer support. CO's solutions also include options for Library Profiles, Directories, and interagency solutions such as Parks Pass Tracking and museum data management.

 
Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development workshops for librarians and other library staff, focusing on practical topics to build new skills. Emphasis is on student interaction with instructors and with each other, supported by a variety of class assignments and reading materials. The instructors are librarians and LIS faculty who have developed specialized knowledge in the subjects they teach. Students come from all types of libraries and library positions. Bringing online continuing education to a new level since 2012.

Lyrasis is a 501 c 3 non-profit membership organization whose mission is to support enduring access to the world’s shared academic, scientific and cultural heritage through leadership in open technologies, content services, digital solutions and collaboration with archives, libraries, museums and knowledge communities worldwide. Lyrasis organizational and staff values are: communication, respect, collaboration, impact, and service.

Lyrasis was created by its members to help them tackle wide-reaching challenges with a collective strength, including: the development and selection of new technology solutions; fostering community-wide projects that help deliver better outcomes and services; content creation, acquisition and management; support for new content models and strategies; and large-scale knowledge management programs unique to collections-holding institutions.

PolicyMap isn't just a data and mapping tool. It's a means to deepen community connections, inform strategic decisions, and ensure every patron feels seen and served. With our authoritative community-level data, libraries can be more adaptive, inclusive, and practical, cementing their role as indispensable community pillars.

PolicyMap curates and standardizes +75,000 indicators from over 170 authoritative public and proprietary data sources. You can also upload your own data including patron data or program information into the platform.

Designed with the goal of uplifting every reader, TeachingBooks' mission is to equitably give all readers insights and opportunities that deepen their understanding and joy of the books they are reading. This service is for patrons, staff, and families statewide, bringing books to life for all readers while enhancing library professionalization, collection analysis, school and library connections, early childhood literacy opportunities, reader's advisory, and so much more.