We know that most of you are working at home right now, or you are supervising staff who are working at home. One useful task important to any library staffer, regardless of position, is working on continuing education.
CMLE is here for you!
We currently have 21 short classes set up for you, on a variety of topics. You can find them all right here.
It’s been a rough few weeks. The professional work changes, in having to move online, to provide so much information online, and everything else involved in our work. And personally, going through all the changes necessary to be stay healthy in a global pandemic, are hard.
We are in an information profession. And CMLE wants to gather your stories! We want to hear from you, so you can tell us what is going on in your library, and how you are coping with everything.
We want to collect these stories, and share them on our podcast. Hopefully, this will be our only global pandemic. And it won’t be over any time soon, so sharing our information will be helpful to us all.
We really want you to email us, and tell us a day that’s good for you. We will set up a Skype session, and record about ten minutes.
We will ask you questions. You can share your stories and experiences. Tell us about your students. About the new software you are learning. About the strategies you are using to reach out to patrons. About the things are are going great. About the things that are really hard.
Email us: admin @ cmle.org. Tell us a day that works for you. (We’re home, our schedules are flexible!) Let’s collect lots of information from all kinds of library people, from all over the place.
““Short and sweet—that’s the cool, summery look of the cover of the novel Sequins, Secrets, and Silver Linings. Get the book to add the finishing touch to your look!” That was our student MC describing a model at our standing-room-only Prom Book Fashion Show, where students walk the runway holding a book. Our students haven’t always felt excited about the prom. Many are from countries where proms aren’t part of the culture. I came up with the fashion show idea while brainstorming ways to promote the prom… and reading. It combines two of my favorite things—books and fashion! Here are tips to plan your own.”
Reach out to local boutiques.
Create a buzz.
Practice! Practice! Practice!
Let the students lead.
Write a grant.
She gives more tips in this article, and lots of good information to share for each tip! And you will *want* to see all the great photos here!!!
Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion!
You can find our show notes page here, with links to all the books we shared, and links to the recipes for the beverages we enjoyed!
Each week we talk about books and about different genres, and provide useful information for people who want to talk about books. There are so many books out there that it’s tough to be an expert on all of them. So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar genre! We want to help you find new books for yourself, and to be ready to share them with others.
This week we are chatting about food books! Food is always important, and can cover so many different aspects of life, so it’s a very full genre. If you like this, you should check out our episode 301 on Cookbooks. We are going to look at other areas of food this time, and that one was filled with all sorts of tasty books!
This week our returning Guest Host is Ariel Kirst, from Great River Regional Public Library.
This week’s beverages have vegetables in them, and the recipes are from Food and Wine magazine’s website.
Food is such a huge topic, it’s almost impossible to really get your hands around this topic. We aren’t even going to try today! None of us are doctors or nutritionists, so we aren’t here to tell you about the best food – or even the best food books. Instead, we have some books to share with you about the ideas of food, food prep and the lives of chefs, how food mixes with culture, or how food and the environment interact. This is a fun genre, with so many possibilities to explore new ideas – and so many possibilities to find a great new food you might enjoy!
Crafting is a great program to hold in the library, and also to do at home. We know that most of you are at home right now, and may be also working with kids in person or online. So our weekly crafts will be more kid-friendly, to be sure everyone can participate!
We are big fans of developing friends. And while we are all home, that can require a little more creativity! So this week, we’re making Tissue Box Monsters. Share this with a kid in your house, or do it online with them, or just enjoy having your own set of monsters! (They will love it when you read to them, or with them. These are library monsters, after all!)
– Tissue Box – preferably one with a round opening so that it looks more like a mouth but a square opening could work too!
– Colored acrylic paint – we used two different colors, one for the outside of the box and one for the inside
– White acrylic paint
– Googly eyes – extra large ones can be found at Michaels, different sizes work best and small ones are needed for the purple box.
– White cardstock
– Large pom poms
– Black sharpie or marker
– 1 popsicle sticks (optional for the purple monster)
– Glue – hot glue is always going to work best when working with large googly eyes and pom poms, but you can also use an extra-strong glue like this one. Just make sure to let it thoroughly dry and press and hold for the glue to take.
You can get all the directions on this blog. She has some good directions, and pictures all along the way. (That could be especially helpful if you are doing this project with a kid at a distance.)
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