Digital Engagement Garfield County Libraries maintain a Drupal-based website and active event programs such as the Comics Festival, indicating a strong emphasis on digital engagement and community content delivery. This presents opportunities to upgrade their CMS, streamline event registration, enhance the digital library (e-books and streaming), and implement marketing automation and analytics. They can also benefit from cloud hosting, security hardening, and performance optimization to support growing online services.
Community Wellness Recent collaborations with Garfield County Public Health and Mountain Family Health Centers demonstrate a commitment to accessible community wellness and education. This creates opportunities for health-focused program delivery tools, telehealth or appointment integration, digital literacy content licensing, and grant-funded outreach campaigns that align with public health goals.
Funding and Grants With a small revenue footprint and a track record of CAL awards, there is clear potential to strengthen fundraising and donor engagement. Opportunities include donor relationship management, grant tracking, sponsorship management for events, and digital fundraising campaigns or grant automation to improve efficiency and outcomes.
IT Modernization Technically, the library staff use iCIMS for HR and run on Apache with security practices like HSTS, suggesting room for IT modernization. Potential sales angles include cybersecurity hardening, Drupal performance optimization, disaster recovery and backups, cloud hosting, and integrated HR and vendor management workflows to boost efficiency.
Partnership Opportunities Active participation in local events and partnerships positions the library as a community anchor with sponsorship and co-branded program opportunities. Sales potential exists in event sponsorship packages, content licensing partnerships, co-marketed education programs, and publisher partnerships for digital content and programs.