Welcome to Linking Our Libraries! We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, a multitype library system where we support libraries of all types.

You can read the full show notes page here, with the full schedule.

And today we have two special guests with us: Ann Walker Smalley, who is the director of the Metronet multitype system; and Ann Hokanson, the director of the Traverse des Sioux library system. 

We are sharing this special episode to help promote the latest annual Minnesota Library Association conference! It’s coming up Wednesday, Oct. 6 through Friday, Oct. 8. And of course we are still having a global pandemic, so this conference will be virtual. We will preview a few of the interesting events coming up, so you will be ready for all the different activities.

And of course, we want to take special notice of probably the most exciting session at this conference: the Multitype Library systems are presenting a session to talk about the very cool work we are all doing together and individually! 

Our session will be Friday, Oct 8 at 10:00am. It is called Mapping Minnesota’s Multitypes. 

Let’s give you a quick preview of this session.