Reading with Libraries Podcast

Welcome to Reading With Libraries! Thank you for joining us on the SEVENTH SEASON of our Reader's Advisory podcast! We have more genres to discuss, new books to recommend, and we're so glad you're here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too! Check out our full show notes page here. We link to books, resources, and the beverages we share today! Today's books are fun, and should give you some ideas about assorted business, psychology, self-help, and other books that you can recommend to your patrons - as well as enjoying them yourself! Our Guest Host this week is new to the book group, and we are happy to welcome him: Shaun Keeley is the Director of Student Life, from the St Cloud Technical and Community College. Thanks for joining us, Shaun! We share the recipes for the beverages we are enjoying while we chat about books. We have links to the resources we share. And we give you a list of the books we are discussing today, with links to Amazon so you can get more info about each one. Join us to be a part of the book group fun!

Welcome to Reading With Libraries! Thank you for joining us on the SEVENTH SEASON of our Reader's Advisory podcast! We have more genres to discuss, new books to recommend, and we're so glad you're here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too! Check out today's show notes here, with links to the beverages we enjoy, the resources we share, and the books we discuss. Our organization is the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. At CMLE, we work with all types of libraries. We love talking about books that appeal to all ages. This week's genre definitely fits into that category. We're talking historical nonfiction picture books! And we're so excited to welcome returning Guest Host Kelly Groth! Kelly has talked with us about children's books before and we're so happy she's able to join us again!

Thank you for joining us on the SEVENTH SEASON of our Reader's Advisory podcast! This is our season opener, and we are going to have a wide variety of new genres and topics to share with you this season. We are so glad you're here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too! It's hard to be an expert on ALL of the great books out there! So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar genre! Check out our full show notes page, with links to resources and books we share today! We are wrapping up summer, and starting off a new semester. But it's always the right time to have some fun with books - and Florida books are always fun! Whether they are zany, scary, or just generally weird, Florida books are a good genre to enjoy when you need to brighten up your day. This week we have a new Guest Host, here to enjoy book group discussion with us: Cassandra, from the St Cloud Technical and Community College library. In addition to being a reader, Cassandra has lived in Florida and can speak to some of the lovely and exciting aspects of the state. Thanks for joining us today!

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! Today our prompt is inspired by Le Sueur County! Le sueur means "sweat" so we want you to read a book about exercise or good health. 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 moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! Today our prompt is inspired by Jackson County! This county contains Heron Lake. So we want you to read a book about birds. 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 moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! Today our prompt is inspired by Chisago County! This county is located northeast of Minneapolis, on the border with Wisconsin. And Chisago County is part of CMLE, hooray! This county has an archeological dig site, which includes finds such as mussel shells accumulated from 600 to 1499 CE; read a book with sea shells. 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 moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! Today our prompt is inspired by Carver County! This county is located to the west of Minneapolis. It's named after Jonathan Carver (1710–1790), early explorer and cartographer of the Mississippi river; read a book with a map on the cover or in the plot. 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 moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we look at Cottonwood county. The Jeffers Petroglyphs, near Jeffers, contain pre-European Native American rock carvings; to celebrate that, we want you to read a book with any type of painting. 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 moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we look at Kandiyohi county. Earl B. Olson, founder of Jennie O Turkey, was born here, and raised his daughter Jennifer here. This week we want to prompt you to read a book about a daughter. 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!

Hi everyone, and welcome to a special bonus episode of Linking Our Libraries! We are sharing some information about the free training program available to library staffers: 23 Things Media Landscapes. We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. Our members are libraries of all sorts: public, schools, academics, special libraries, archives, and history centers. We talk about a lot of different skills that people will need when they work in libraries. Providing education and training is an important part of our mission. And of course, we are not alone in that mission! Today we have two Guest Hosts who are both actively involved in creating and providing a very interesting, very useful training program in Minnesota: Media Landscapes: 23 Things. Thank you to Ann Walker Smalley, our fellow multitype system director from the Metronet system, and to Linda Mork from Minitex for joining us today! You can read all of our show notes right here!