Category Archives: Communication

We hope you are enjoying National Book Lover’s Day!

August 9, 2017 Angie

August 9th is National Book Lover’s Day, and as library people, it is no secret at all that we love books!! (And encourage our families to love books too, as you can see from this picture below!)

Just in case you need a little extra encouragement to celebrate this excellent day, here’s a great article from the Literacy and NCTE blog with suggestions on how to share your love of books. Check out this list of Twenty Sayings to Share with Bibliophiles. Or, just grab a selection from your TBR pile and get reading! 🙂

Communication, Materials

OCLC at 50 years: a “moonshot” for the world’s libraries

August 7, 2017 Mary Jordan

OCLC is an organization hugely important to the library profession; and it’s great to see the thinking they are doing about their next fifty years!

(By Skip Prichard, read the entire article here)

As we’ve prepared for our 50^th anniversary celebrations, I’ve been thinking about the time of our founding in the late 1960s and what it meant for our cultural ideals of technology and progress. OCLC was born in 1967, between the time of John F. Kennedy’s 1961 speech in which he set the goal of landing a man on the moon, and the fulfillment of that dream in 1969.

I think there are exciting parallels between that dream, its completion and the incredible journey that OCLC libraries have undertaken together over the past five decades. Continue reading OCLC at 50 years: a “moonshot” for the world’s libraries →

Communication

Day Sixty Six of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

August 5, 2017 Mary Jordan

We all know library people are awesome – that just goes without saying! And it is always interesting to see what kinds of things library people do, and the interests they have. Not surprisingly, many people’s interests involve books! (You are not shocked by that, are you? Of course not!)

One of the ways those interests can display themselves is in the art of tattoos. This article shows you 24 really interesting tattoos on library people. Scroll through to see them all. And if you have book-related tattoos, we would like to hear from you! Share them with us all!

Here are just a few of their images:

Definitely check them all out!

CMLE, Communication

Celebrate back-to-school and the solar eclipse with CMLE!

August 4, 2017 Angie

Thank you to everyone that responded to our poll to pick a date/time for our back-to-school event! A majority of people picked Monday, August 21st for the celebration and we realized that is also the day of the solar eclipse!

From NASA: “On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality can see one of nature’s most awe-inspiring sights – a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun’s tenuous atmosphere – the corona – can be seen, will stretch from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observers outside this path will still see a partial solar eclipse where the moon covers part of the sun’s disk.” Sounds pretty exciting!!

So, our finalized date and time for our combined Back-To-School and Solar Eclipse Party is:

Monday, August 21st
Between 11am – 2pm (although feel free to drop by throughout the day, we will have extra snacks!)
CMLE Headquarters
570 1st St. SE
St. Cloud, MN 56304

Not only will we have solar system themed snacks and music (and eclipse viewing glasses!) but we’ll also have back-to-school decorations, a raffle, and of course, lots of great conversation about libraries and upcoming plans for the school year!

We really hope you can make it to celebrate the start of fall and return to school! Send us an email with any questions.

Communication

Day Sixty One of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

July 31, 2017 Mary Jordan

Now I Know

I like to know things.

Okay, that’s not surprising; I’m a librarian and it’s pretty much in the job description.

So it makes me happy to get nice pieces of information emailed to me on are regular basis! And one of my favorites arrives Monday thru Friday (sometimes with a bonus selection of reading recommendations on Friday!): Now I Know.

“You’ll learn things like:

Abraham Lincoln created the secret service – on the day he was shot
Carrots used to be purple
How turkey (the bird/food) got its name.
And a whole lot more“

The creator is Dan (spoiler: he works for Sesame Street, one of my favorite kid shows of all time!) This is his “About” page; I think you will get a good idea of how fun his daily newsletter would be to receive. Sign up yourself!

“Hi. I’m Dan. I’m a dad. And a husband.

And a Mets fan.

I can tell you how to get to Sesame Street. (Kind of.)

I have an email newsletter with more than 100,000 subscribers. It’s about trivia. Pee-Wee Herman once tweeted about it.

In 2013, I wrote a book.

My forehead is in a YouTube video with more than 20 million views.

I once had a startup, but I sold it to the founder of Wikipedia. I didn’t make nearly as much money as the press reported.

I’ve made important public statements concerning Big Bird’s bedtime.

I’ve read all of the Harry Potter books at least twice.

I can vibrate my eyes.

I’ve never eaten bacon.

I’ve tweeted over 50,000 times.