Category Archives: CMLE

Buying Gifts Through Amazon? You Can Support CMLE at the same time!

There are so many ways to support CMLE: apply for scholarships or mini grants, take advantage of our VR headset loan program, attend member events and postcard parties, join us on Patreon!

Another very easy way to support us is by making your Amazon purchases through this link! Amazon will not tell us who you are or what you buy, but they will give us a small percentage of the total profit they make on your purchase.

Click our links anywhere we have book information (like in our Book Bouquet articles) or just visit Amazon from our site. Anything you buy during that visit to Amazon will be counted toward our total.

We are so grateful for your support! Our work is to strengthen our library community and these funds earned allow us to continue doing just that!

Mail Some Library Advocacy Postcards With CMLE!

Join us on Dec. 4th!

CMLE works to support all of our library members and that means telling legislators, principals, School Board Members, and other important stakeholders about all the amazing work YOU are doing in your library!

One of the ways we do this is by hosting postcard parties! We provide the postcards and postage and give you ideas of what to say in your message. But our main message is: all types of libraries are important and need funding and support!

Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 4th from 3-5pm to write your own messages of library support! We will be working at the Local Blend coffee shop in St. Joe.

If you’ve come to past Postcard Parties, you know they are fun and casual events, just a gathering of library supporters getting together to write to stakeholders about the necessity of supporting libraries!

Any questions, send me an email at ajordan @ cmle.org (no spaces).
Mark your calendars and we’ll see you there!

This Thursday! Join us for our Welcome Back Event!

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.

More fun things to look forward to at the event:

  • Information on how to request and use our VR kits for your school
  • Try out a VR headset! Swim with sharks or explore international destinations!
  • Details about our scholarship and mini grant programs
  • Advocacy information you can share far and wide
  • Raffle for books, CMLE merch, and other fun prizes
  • Light refreshments
  • Delightful library company!

Next Week: Welcome Back Event!

Join us at the St. Cloud Public Library on Thursday, Sept. 26th from 4-7pm! Win some of these sweet raffle prizes!!

We are so excited to reunite with our fantastic library community next Thursday, Sept. 26th at the St. Cloud Public Library! We’ll be in the Bremer Room and our event is from 4-7pm but please feel free to stop in and leave as your schedule allows!
Email Angie (ajordan @ cmle. org) with any questions.

This year is going to be even more exciting than usual for CMLE and we want you all to get an inside look at what we’re working on.

And we want to point out that 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.

More fun things to look forward to at the event:

  • Information on how to request and use our VR kits for your school
  • Try out a VR headset! Swim with sharks or explore international destinations!
  • Details about our scholarship and mini grant programs
  • Advocacy information you can share far and wide
  • Raffle for books, CMLE merch, and other fun prizes
  • Light refreshments
  • Delightful library company!

You’re Invited: Our Fall Member Event! (this time with pics of raffle prizes)

Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 26th from 4-7pm! We will be in the Bremer Community Room at the St. Cloud Public Library and will have so many things to share with you!

  • Information on how to request and use our VR kits for your school
  • Try out a VR headset! Swim with sharks or explore international destinations!
  • Details about our scholarship and mini grant programs
  • Advocacy information you can share far and wide
  • Raffle for books, CMLE merch, and other fun prizes
  • Light refreshments
  • Delightful library company!

Below are some of the prizes we will be raffling off to attendees:

Questions? Contact Angie at ajordan @ cmle.org.