Well, it looks like almost all of our members are closed for now!
So this is an exciting time in good library service!! We want to give you as much support as possible to keep providing service to your community members.
CMLE will be open (working at home!) and providing information each day during this time. We will have our regular schedule of articles, social media, and our weekly newsletter for you. Our podcasts are already recorded and scheduled for several weeks in advance, so you have those to enjoy yourselves, and to share with your community.
If you need help, or have questions – check in with us any time! We are here to help our members.
And we are proud members of the wider library community! So let’s keep working together to share information and ideas, and keep the flow of information moving for everyone’s community members.
We anticipate many of you will still be working online, and we have some ideas collected with ideas and resources you can share. Check “Library Life Online” and we will be updating this daily, sometimes hourly, with new stuff for you.
Some of this will be information on working at home, and on things you can do as a library to keep providing services online. We are so much more than in-person services, and this is a great opportunity to show that!
And to help libraries serving kids, especially in schools, we have set up a collection of pages: What are We Doing Today? We will create a new page each day, with activities to do, videos to watch, online tours of museums and zoos, and other material. This is aimed at kids who are at home.
Especially for library people who have kids in your community – we want to streamline the work you have to do to provide good information. Just link to our What Are We Doing Today? page, and the new day’s activities and material will be there.
Go ahead and link to all of this! Share it on your social media! Tell parents about it!
Do you have other resources to share? Tell us!
Do you have specific needs for information to share? We will help!
This is a tough time for everyone, as we all try to find the best way to do our usual work. CMLE is here to help you with sharing information, and providing online services. We are all part of the library community, and it’s good to work together!