Since its inception in 1993, the Council for Learning Resources in Colleges (CoLRiC) has been the voice of Further Education and Sixth Form College Libraries and Learning Resource Services, encouraging and celebrating creativity, enterprise and innovation.
We are an independent organisation that represents a diverse group of college librarians and learning resource professionals across the UK, advocating and championing quality and exemplary practice across the educational sector; supporting our members in evidencing the impact and value that they bring to teaching, learning and the student experience.
Benefits of membership
As an institutional member of CoLRiC, all staff across your service have access to a portfolio of publications and resources. These include:
- Free attendance at regular online seminars
- Four issues of our publication CoLRiC Impact over an academic year
- Access to back issues of CoLRiC Impact, other publications, job descriptions, seminar recordings and presentation slide decks via our members only document repository
- Opportunities to share ideas and experiences, ask questions and elicit feedback in our members’ discussion forum
- An invitation to contribute data and information to CoLRiC’s annual qualitative and quantitative benchmarking survey, benefitting from receipt of a final report profiling our member Colleges
- Advice and guidance on evidencing return on investment and helping to demonstrate the quality, value and impact of a library and learning resources service in support of the wider teaching, learning and student experience
- Access to expertise by adopting CoLRiC’s free Quality Assurance Framework that enables you to self-assess your library and learning resources service
- Eligibility to submit nominations for our high-profile national awards
- Professional development opportunities for colleagues through volunteering to participate in CoLRiC activities and projects
- Opportunities to post job vacancies for free on our members’ forum.
For membership enquiries please contact the CoLRiC Admin Team colric@colric.org.uk