Linking Our Libraries

This season we are suggesting books you might enjoy for our Goodreads group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a prompt connected to each state park, and you find a book to fulfill the challenge. You can use one of our suggestions, and you should feel free to read any book!

Check out our show notes page here. We give you links to all the books we shared in this episode.

Banning State Park was established in 1963. “September 1, 1894, the great Hinckley forest fire swept through the area." This was an enormous disaster for the area, and the state of Minnesota. Read a book about a disaster of any sort, especially if there is a happy ending. You can find more books on this subject on our reading group podcast Reading With Libraries, episode 405: Natural Disasters.

We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we are suggesting books you might enjoy for our Goodreads group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a prompt connected to each state park, and you find a book to fulfill the challenge. You can use one of our suggestions, and you should feel free to read any book!

George Crosby Manitou park was established in 1955. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par... The campsites here need to be hiked to, either from the Superior Hiking Trail or after leaving your car in the parking lot. Celebrate the wonderful isolation of this park with a book about a character who experiences some solitude.

This season we are suggesting books you might enjoy for our Goodreads group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a prompt connected to each state park, and you find a book to fulfill the challenge. You can use one of our suggestions, and you should feel free to read any book!

Forestville/Mystery Cave park was established in 1963. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par… 

There are the remnants of an old town here that you can visit. Enjoy the exploration by reading a book that focuses on an old building or historic area. 

We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks.

We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it.

In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy!

Bear Head Lake was established in 1961. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par... There are all kinds of wildlife at this secluded park, and visitors can come admire their homes. Find a book with a head or a skull on the cover.

We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks.

We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it.

In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy!

Sibley State Park was established in 1919. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par... They have canoes and a canoe route for visitors to enjoy, so you can enjoy a book with canoes or kayaks and think about your own watery adventures!

Welcome back to our final episode in Season Six of Linking Our Libraries! Thanks so much for working with us all season. If you are interested in getting clock hours for the work we are doing here, check out our website cmle.org, for our continuing education opportunities!

This week we look at one of the big skills in school library work: digital citizenship. Check out our full show notes page for all the links

This week we have a returning Guest Host, Bethany Kauffman, Media Specialist and Book Club Advisor at Rogers High School.

Welcome back to Season Six of Linking Our Libraries!

Check out our full show notes page here.

This week we look at a skill that adds fun to your life: attending conferences! There are so many good things out there for you to consider, and attending conferences can be tough. We’ll talk about some strategies for getting the most out of your conference!

This week our Guest Host is Jennifer Hill, who is the St. Michael Elementary School Media Specialist and teaches at St Cloud State University.

Conferences can be a great strategy for learning new skills, meeting new people, and trying out new skills! They can also be exhausting, expensive, and a little terrifying. We want your conference experience to be more of the first group – but it will involve some of the second group too.

Welcome back to Season Six of Linking Our Libraries!

Check out our show notes page, to get links to some other useful resources, and the links for the books we discuss this week.

This week we look at a skill used in a lot of libraries: Genealogy work!

This week we have a new Guest Host: Wendy Sykes from the Great River Regional Library System.

Genealogy is the study of families and lineages. You can look at your own family, or at people from your community. In our multitype system, we have public libraries that help people in their genealogy work looking at their own family, and we have history centers that look at genealogies from across entire communities. There are academic libraries that store work from families who donate materials to collections, and could be used for genealogy.

Welcome back to Season Six of Linking Our Libraries!

Click on our show notes page here, to get links to other resources and links to the books we shared this week.

This week we look at strategies you can use to connect with students! You can use these ideas in schools, or in any type of library. Our purpose in every library is always to connect our community to information, and we have some suggestions for getting that done!

Our Guest Host this week is Audrey, with a flair for technology, from Mississippi Heights Elementary in Sauk Rapids. She helped to organize a really interesting conference - led and produced by students!

Welcome back to Season Six of Linking Our Libraries!

Check out our full show notes page here, to get links to other resources and links to the books we shared this week.

This week we look at a skill every library needs to be using: marketing. Fundamentally, our jobs in libraries are all about connecting our materials, programs, and services with our community members. Marketing tools can give you a good strategy for making that happen.

We have two Guest Hosts this week: Kate Wallace and Matt Klimkhammer, from the St Cloud Technical and Community College. Welcome!