Thanks to an LSTA grant from the MN Department of Education, the State Library Services, with money from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), CMLE has purchased VR kits.
Each kit contains 8 sturdy headsets. You are able to check out one or two kits for 4 weeks. When you receive a kit, you will also gain educator access to an online Portal that contains hundreds of curriculum-aligned lesson plans that incorporates the VR/AR technology.
We are pretty excited about this for our members. Remember, you can apply right here! Right now this is just a program available for CMLE member school libraries.
Facilitator: Brent Dundore, Creator of the They/Them Project Participants: Rue Ether, Oscar E. Menjivar and Mikko
The They/Them Project interviews individuals who currently use or previously used gender nonconforming pronouns. The project informs individuals about how words and actions affect the Trans+ community. Brent Dundore has taken photographs of the individuals he interviews. Those photographs would be on display at Alcuin Library.
If CMLE members would like to meet early and go to this event together, please RSVP below!
Banned Books Week 2019 is from Sept. 22nd – 28th, 2019 and there are so many ways to participate in this week of fighting against censorship and embracing intellectual freedom!
CMLE’s Executive Director shared this article last month, all about the different types of censorship and activities for educators working with students.
We wanted to share a very generous offer with you from the Morrison County Historical Society.
From their Executive Director: “We are in the middle of a project to install mobile shelving in our Archives. In doing that, we have removed the original shelving in the Archives, which we have been told by our shelving contractors is actually typically used for books. We are offering this shelving free to any organization that can use it. The only thing we ask is that someone come pick it up in Little Falls, MN.
I’ve attached some photos of the shelving in use and completely dismantled. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get photos of the shelving assembled but empty because the emptying and dismantling occurred so quickly.
Shelves are approximately 13 inches deep. Shelves are attached to 2 sides of each 2-part frame unit, so figure that each full 2-sided unit is approximately 26 inches deep.
Each shelf section is approximately 36 inches wide – 2 of these sections were attached together to make each unit approximately 72 inches wide. The shelving is about 84 inches tall.
The shelves are adjustable vertically on the frame and the units are easy-to-assemble.
The color is a neutral cream.
Shelving in use
Shelving in use
Shelving in use
If you are interested in the shelving, please contact Mary Warner at staff @ morrisoncountyhistory.org or call 320-632-4007
Hello library friends! 😁 We hope you can come to the St. Cloud Public Library this Thursday, Sept. 26th from 4-7pm for our Welcome Back Event! We’ll be in the Bremer Room and please feel free to stop in and leave as your schedule allows! Email Angie (ajordan @ cmle. org) with any questions.
We’ve got lots of great resources to chat with you about, and if you work in a member school library, you can pick up your own VR kit to bring back to your school! Just email admin @ cmle.org to begin the application process. (It’s simple, we promise!!) Or, RSVP below and we’ll contact you.
