Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week!
Today’s book is Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Cave on Earth, by James M. Tabor.
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Welcome back to Season Five of Linking Our Libraries!
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This week we will be talking about Customer Service in your library, and how to make it work for you. Attentive listeners may be thinking “Hey! Didn’t you guys already do this topic?” Good catch! We did – way back in Season Two, episode 210. We link to it here, and it would be worth your time to go back and listen or read our show notes. This is such an important topic – the foundation of everything we do in the library really – and it’s also such a hard thing to always do well, that we wanted to cover it again.
This week we have Guest Host Kathy Parker, Director of the St John’s/St Ben’s academic libraries, to help us get some ideas!
Thanks to Kathy for coming in to work through this topic with us! Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to get all the library skills directly to your favorite app each week. And you can check out our shownotes for each episode to get all the info we discussed, along with the links to more resources. Every episode we have created is on our website: cmle.org.
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Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week!
Today’s book is The Terror, by Dan Simmons.
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Welcome back to Season Five of Linking Our Libraries!
We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. Our members are libraries of all sorts: public, schools, academics, special libraries, archives, and history centers. This season we are working through some skills that people in any kind of library will need to be successful in their work.
This week we are starting the season on a foundational skill for any library: cataloging. You need this to keep track of your materials, to know where they are, and to help your patrons locate just the things they need for their information searching.
This week we have a special Guest Host: Violet Fox, an editor on OCLC’s Dewey team.
Check out our full shownotes page to get all kinds of helpful information, links to resources, and info on the books we share in this episode!
Just a quick note to remind everyone that we are going to be on hiatus with Reading With Libraries, so be sure you are subscribed to Linking Our Libraries to keep up with all the new episodes there!