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CMLE, School Media Specialist, Visits

A Trip to the Zimmerman High School and Middle School Library

Visiting our member libraries is always one of the most fun things we do at CMLE Headquarters! We love to see what you guys are doing, and to ooohhh and aaaahhh over all your materials, services, and the general look and feel of your libraries. We plan to visit each of our 300+ members, so if we have not been to your library yet, help us out by suggesting a day or two that will be good for your schedule! These are the articles most read by our community, and we are all looking forward to learning more about your library.

This visit was to the Zimmerman High School media center; and you can just tell from the beginning of the library that this will be a nice place! It’s so welcoming, and I love the clear identification – it’s the librarian in me, but that kind of detail (user friendly!) helps libraries connect to their communities.

Many of our member libraries have maker-spaces, with all sorts of different projects and tools. I love the look of this one, with the bright and cheerful colors leading your eye right to the good stuff! The quotes on the wall also help to establish this as a place that is going to be fun, and where users are going to feel welcome – always great for libraries!

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Day Six of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

Do you love books so much that you can immediately picture that great book smell? You know the one – a little musty, a little dusty, and filled with  the promise of wonderful old books!

If you have been longing for this your whole life, wait no longer! You can smell (nicely) like an old book yourself with this perfume.

 

Paperback

“A trip to your favorite library or used bookstore. Sweet and lovely with just a touch of the musty smell of aged paper, Demeter’s Paperback harnesses that scent with a sprinkling of violets and a dash of tasteful potpourri.”

Want more than just perfume? You are in the right place!

  • 1/2 oz cologne mini splash$5.10
  • 1/2 oz cologne purse spray$10.20
  • 1 oz cologne spray$17.00
  • 3.4 oz cologne spray$34.00
  • .29 oz roll on perfume oil$10.20
  • 8.4 oz body lotion$18.70
  • 8.4 oz shower gel$17.00
  • 2 oz massage & body oil$11.90
  • 4 oz atmosphere spray$11.90
  • 4 oz atmosphere diffuser oil$21.25
  • .10 oz cologne spray vial sampler$2.55

And if you desire other good smells: Sunshine, New Baby, Mountain Air, Oud, or a wide variety of other interesting smells, you want to check out their most popular smells!

CMLE, Communication, School Media Specialist, Visits

A Trip to the Elk River High School Library!

This was another fun school library to visit! It’s always great to visit our members: most of the services and materials are similar across all our libraries, but every library has a few interesting individual features!

Right at the front door was one of the individual features of this library: a Little Free Library, with books available to everyone! I’m such a fan of the Little Free Libraries, and it was so fun to see it here!

You can see how nice the desk area is, with displays, handouts, and all sorts of things to look at as patrons are processed.

Thinking about those patrons is always a good idea, and this is (hopefully!) a fantastic idea for summer reading! The library books can be checked out for the entire summer now – giving students a great opportunity to get some fun (or even educational!) reading done over the summer!! This is the first year they are trying this idea; so everyone cross your fingers that it is a big success!

 

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Day Five of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

Hopefully you already like your job – but remember that there is a BIG profession out there across  Library and Information Science, with all kinds of interesting job possibilities!

The first job is still open, if you want to throw your hat in for it! (We can help you craft a cover letter and resume here at CMLE HQ!) The other tow are filled – for now. It never hurts to keep an eye out for another lovely job!

  • The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?

    BE A ROCK STAR AND HELP US ENGAGE, TEACH AND INSPIRE THROUGH THE POWER OF ROCK AND ROLL.

    We also offer an exciting work environment, great hands on experience, plus additional professional development workshops and training during the summer session.

    Librarian – Job No. 1702 – The Librarian reports to the Senior Director of Library and Archives and performs descriptive cataloging of library resources; assists in providing instruction and reference service and engaging users through outreach activities; assists in the collection development of library resources; and supervises the work of the Library Assistant, interns, and volunteers.

  • UC Santa Cruz Wants YOU to Research the Grateful Dead!

    “OK guys, start dusting off your resumes. Miraculously there are still jobs out there in the world–for former stoners, no less. But lest you think the position is all about smoking up rather than buckling down, you need a Master’s to snag this job. Check out the full description after the jump, and let us know if you get the gig.

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
    Grateful Dead Archivist
    The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) as Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive. This is a potential career status position. The Archivist will be part of a dynamic, collegial, and highly motivated department dedicated to building, preserving, promoting, and providing maximum access both physically and virtually to one of the Library’s most exciting and unique collections, The Grateful Dead Archive (GDA). The UCSC University Library utilizes innovative approaches to allow the discovery, use, management, and sharing of information in support of research, teaching, and learning.”

    (Read through the job ad – it’s a pretty standard archiving job – but you certainly get to deal with some interesting material!)

  • Archivist for Beyonce

    Even Sasha Fierce needs Archives/Archivists

    So today I was checking the INALJ (I Need a Library Job) daily email of job postings when I came upon this:

    Digital Archivist for Beyonce Parkwood Entertainment No location given- probably NYC Parkwood Entertainment is seeking a digital archivist interested in organizing and building an archive for a major pop star (Beyonce) starting with approximately 130 TB of footage with an eye to expanding further in the future. Candidates should have experience with servers and enterprise class storage and be able to recommend hardware solutions. Looking for someone to start immediately, pay is negotiable.  Prospective applicants should e-mail resume and cover letter to: Annette Govan – Ag@Parkwoodent.com and William Kirstein – William.Kirstein@gmail.com
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Day Four of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

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If you, like me, are old enough to remember the days when we wrote our names in library books to borrow them, you remember how fun it was to find someone’s name you knew. (Older kids were so cool!)

In this book, someone found a name we ALL know:
Elvis Presley!

“The library card, which Presley, then 13 years old, signed to check out a copy of “The Courageous Heart: A Life of Andrew Jackson For Young Readers” from Humes High School in Memphis in 1948, is expected to sell for more than $3,500 when it is sold on August 14.”

This is a couple of years old, but check out the entire Huffington Post article about the card!