The Joint Legislative Library provides nonpartisan library services and resources to members of the General Assembly and their staffs, the other legislative service agencies, other government agencies, and members of the public.

Services

Print Collection

The library has a variety of print and legislative resources available for use during library hours.  Some of these include historical and current versions of the Colorado Revised Statutes, the Colorado Session Laws, House and Senate Journals, directories, and reference materials.

The Legislative Council Accounting Staff provide centralized accounting services for the legislative branch service agencies and compensation and benefit services for members of the General Assembly.

Visitor Services staff provide public historic tours of the Capitol, as well as educating school-aged children about state government and Colorado's history

Information Technology Staff provide information and technology services and support to all legislators and legislative staff and support and maintain the General Assembly's computers, printers, networking equipment, servers, storage systems, and wireless network.  Staff also manage services pertaining to a centralized file storage system, website support, and the development and maintenance of various custom software applications used by legislative staff and legislators.

The IT staff is organized under the following teams:

Economics Staff prepare General Fund and cash fund revenue forecasts and other forecasts used in the state budgeting process.

Fiscal Notes Staff prepare fiscal analyses of all bills and concurrent resolutions considered by the General Assembly.

The State Auditor and three Deputy State Auditors compose the OSA’s executive management team, known as CSALT (Colorado State Auditor Leadership Team). CSALT is responsible for providing strategic and operational direction for the OSA's performance, financial, and IT auditing activities, including maintaining accountability for all in-house and contract audits, staffing assignments, matters of OSA policy, legislative and agency concerns, personnel issues, and organization-wide initiatives.

Research & Committee Analysts prepare research requested by members of the General Assembly and provide staff support to standing and interim committees.  Additional duties include researching and preparing written documents on topics of interest to state legislators, including researching and writing portions of the "Blue Book" voter guide on statewide election issues.