Reading with Libraries Podcast

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We're so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. This week we're especially glad to have your company, since the genre we are discussing is True Crime! Check out our full show notes page here.We have links to all kinds of other resources, to help you to find books for yourself and for your patrons. We also give you links to the books we shared, so you can follow up yourself. And, of course, we have the links to the beverages we enjoyed here! (Beverages are a key part of any book group.) Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We're so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full show notes here! This week we're discussing indigenous representation in literature and we are so excited to welcome Hannah Buckland to our show! Hannah is the State Library Program Specialist. Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We're so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full show notes page here, with links to the books we shared, more info about this genre, and of course - links to the beverages we were enjoying! This week we're discussing biographies for kids! We're excited to welcome back Guest Host librarian Kate! Join us for this fun topic, and explore all kind of interesting kid biographies. Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We're so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. You can get of our show notes here! Check it out for links to all kinds of useful resources, and links to the beverages we enjoyed today. We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we support libraries of all types: schools, publics, academics, and special libraries and archives. Letting kids choose their own reading materials can be an important way to increase literacy and encourage a love of reading! This week our Guest Hosts are Charlotte, Liam, and Theo, along with their mom Molly. They range in age from about two years old to about eight years old, and they all have very enthusiastic opinions about the books they like to read and the ones they brought to share with us! Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion! This week we look at not only a genre, but a whole aspect of the publishing industry: Zines! Check out our full show notes page here! Get links to all kinds of resources for finding zines and zine material, get links to the beverages we shared, and to some of the books we shared. Who is joining us this week? Our returning Guest Host is Violet Fox, who works with OCLC on their Dewey Team, helping to improve cataloging standards for libraries. Listen to episode 501 of our sister podcast, Linking Our Libraries, to hear Violet talk about Cataloging: Basics and Ethics ! We usually stop there with information about our Guest Host, but Violet has a lot of interesting qualifications to chat with us about zines. She has been a part of a group of librarians from across the U.S. and Canada to organize the Zine Pavilion. It's on the exhibit hall floor during the ALA Annual conference. She has helped to organize the 2018 Zine Librarians unConference, a gathering for library workers and zinesters to explore the intersection of zines and libraries/archives. And she helped organize the Chicago Zine Fest from 2014-2017, and is a co-organizer of the Twin Cities Zine Fest. She also helps to maintain ZineLibraries.info, a clearinghouse of information about how zines can be used within libraries and archives. Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We're so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full shownotes page here. We have links to all the books we discussed, to the beverages we enjoyed, and to the other resources you can use to find material about this genre! Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion! You can find our show notes page here, where you can find background info on more resources for this genre, links to the books we shared, and of course links to the beverages we enjoyed! (Note: this week the beverages require some engineering skills!! Have fun with them.) Who is joining us this week? Our Guest Host is Jason Menth, the STEM Integrationist & CLR Coach from Talahi Community School. (Spoiler note: subscribe to Linking Our Libraries next season, so you can hear more about Jason's work in the library!) We spend a lot of time in this podcast talking about fiction genres, and there are fiction books talking about Engineering. But of course we like nonfiction books, we know your patrons are interested in them, and we've talked about several different genres. So we're happy to look at this genre, that is just filled with books! Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion!. Our full shown notes page, with links to information on the genre, with links to the books we share, and links to the beverages we enjoyed, is found right here. This is a genre filled with all kinds of interesting books. Some are sad, some are scary, some are uplifting. We are not being pejorative about these families by grouping them into this week's genre – we approach all these books with admiration for the lessons learned and the adventures we can share. Not everyone involved in an organization labeled as a cult is damaged by it, but the more exciting stories tend to be the ones made into books. And the line between "religion" and "cult" can be very fine, and may depend on the perspective of the person telling their own story. We suggest all of the books we are sharing today, to read yourself or to recommend to people who want suggestions on interesting or unusual family stories! Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Welcome to Happiness in Libraries bonus episode! Each month we are looking at a few stories about happy things that happen in libraries, or happy things that libraries contribute to their communities. You can get links to all of the stories we shared on our website. And if you have happy library stories of your own, send them to us! We are at [email protected], and would like to hear from you.

Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion. This week we look at books on natural disasters. Who is joining us this week? Our returning Guest Host is Ariel Kirst from the Great River Library System. Natural disasters in books are kind of contradictory. On the one hand, it's scary and potentially sad to read about terrible things happening. And on the other hand – it's exciting and can be very inspirational to hear about the ways people banded together and overcame the disasters facing them. When disaster happen around us, or the world feels like a huge dumpster fire of disaster, it can be comforting to read books about people who have had the worst happen – and have made it through. We can learn lessons, we can take comfort in their survival, we can be inspired by their struggle. And if some days you are having a lousy life experience, and just want to check in on people who are having an even worse day – well, we've got suggestions for you! Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.