From our colleagues at Prairielands Library System. This was organized by our former member and Board member: Bethany Kaufman!!

If you work with teens in your library – sign up today! And if you know other people who work with teens – send this to them so they can sign up!

Prairielands Teen Summit 2023:
Teen Well-Being

Date: 04/24/23
Location: Willmar – Public Library
Time: 12:30 – 4:30

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Date: 04/26/23
Location: Slayton – SWRDC Building
Time: 12:30 – 4:30

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​Register here!

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12:30

Welcome and treats

12:45

Amy Lamatina

Live Virtually from Mackin

Exploring Mental Health Resources for Teens

• Young adult fiction, non-fiction and graphic texts
• Young adult ebooks and audiobooks
• Professional resources for working with teens

1:45

​Next Steps

• Discussion of materials introduced in first session
• Brainstorm programming ideas

2:30

Worthington Public School’s Counselors

Live Virtually from Worthington

Teen Mental Health

• Understanding depression, anxiety and ADHD
• Childhood trauma and the brain
• Engaging with teens through the lenses of trauma and mental health

3:30

Using Crafting to Connnect – Bethany Kauffman

• Creativebug platform
• Access
• Overview
• Choosing programming for teens to destress, relax and connect
• Try a Creativebug project

9th through 12th Graders!

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about how data works and what a career in data entails!

WHAT: Data Derby Datagon WHEN: Saturday April 8, 2022 9AM – 4PM WHERE:  Hennepin Technical College – Eden Prairie 13100 College View Dr. Eden Prairie, MN 55347

Compete in the high school division of the Datagon. All you need is an understanding of spreadsheet software such as Excel or Google Sheet. Learn More About Data Careers! Data industry panel discussion. Feel free to ask questions

LEARN MORE

Questions? Contact Boern Vang at boern.vang@metrostate.edu

Check out these resources from our colleagues at Mintex! Share ELM books with your teachers and students – it’s great to have access to all these free books!

“Along with books around race and book award nominees (coming soon), Ebooks Minnesota just grew with additional graphic novels.  Several series have been added, including titles from the Capstone series, Graphic Science. This series contains graphic novels starring Max Axiom, Super Scientist, as he discusses topics like decoding genes, bacteria, electricity, global warming and other relevant STEM and science-related topics. Included are literary classics in graphic novel manga-style format, like Jane Eyre, The last of the Mohicans, The Scarlet Letter, and Les misérables. Some other recently added titles offer topics around history, including Laika: the 1st dog in space and Lake Placid Miracle.  

All of these, as well as any other K-8 titles, can be accessed in Ebooks Minnesota and Ebooks Minnesota for Schools.  Keep your eyes on the Minitex Messenger for upcoming annoucements of more Ebooks Minnesota additions, and don’t forget to add the MARC records for these, and other new titles to your catalog.  Marc records for Ebooks Minnesota can always be accessed at Mackin’s Ebooks Minnesota Digital Collection site.”

That’s right: every week we are going to celebrate some small holiday! We want you to join us in celebrating every week – because really, everyone needs a little more happiness in their lives.

Join us in celebrating the holiday just yourself, and take some small quiet time to enjoy it. Or, take our book and program ideas, and celebrate in a larger way in your library. Take a small, goofy opportunity to have a little more fun today! (We celebrate you in doing this!)

This is a fun day, and it’s a day to have some math celebrations. While I’ll say that math is not my strong suit, I am quite good at eating pie! If you also enjoy math, pie, or both things – this is your day to have some celebratory fun. And just in case you aren’t feeling quick on the math today, remember that the number Pi starts with 3.14159265359, so on March 14 we all celebrate it by eating pie. If you do nothing else today, enjoy a nice chicken pot pie, or a slice of chocolate silk, or a nice fruit pie. Make yourself happy today!

Try a few books today:

• Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World, by Matt Parker
• The Book On Pie: Everything You Need to Know to Bake Perfect Pies, by Erin Jeanne McDowell
• Easy as Pie: The Essential Pie Cookbook for Every Season and Reason, by Saura Madani
• Elegant Pie: Transform Your Favorite Pies into Works of Art, by Karin Pfeiff-Boschek
• Raspberry Pi Cookbook: Software and Hardware Problems and Solutions, by Simon Monk
• Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors, by Matt Parker

You can try a few pie, and pi, related programs:

• set out a variety of different kinds of round things and measure the diameter and circumference, divide the circumference by the diameter , so patrons can all prove (again!) that it will be pi (3.14)
• give participants paper and writing utensils, and let them start writing the numbers of pi they remember; the people who can come up with the most of correct numbers win a pi (pie) related prizes (maybe everyone else can have small hand pies to celebrate)
• have a math-related joke-telling contest

Join us in celebrating the holiday just yourself, and take some small quiet time to enjoy it. Or, take our book and program ideas, and celebrate in a larger way in your library. Take a small, goofy opportunity to have a little more fun today!

This season, we continue to travel around Minnesota, and this time we’re learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.  

We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge!

Minnehaha Depot, famous for its intricate “gingerbread” canopy, was an integral part of the first rail line out of Minneapolis. Known as the “Princess” by rail workers of the time, it served both local Minneapolis residents as well as visitors from “out east.” Read a book with a princess.

In our show notes for this episode, we link each book to one of our state’s great independent bookstores: Magers and Quinn in Minneapolis, MN. It gives you a description, so you can get more information about the book to help you make a decision about your reading or recommendations.