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New Season of Reading With Libraries Podcast Begins This Week!!

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On Thursday, Feb. 27th (that’s just two days from now!) our next season of Reading With Libraries begins! 😱🎧

This season, we have new and returning guests joining us, and we hope you will subscribe and join us also!

Here are just a few of the genres we’ll be discussing:

  • Spooky Reads
  • Environmental Books for Kids
  • Chick Lit
  • Library History and Mystery
  • and many more!!

Want to listen to some of our previous episodes? You can find them all on our podcast page. Or even better, subscribe to Reading With Libraries on your favorite podcast app! Rate us, leave us a review, and help spread the word.

Working in libraries can be both rewarding and stressful, and we want to help you with your Reader’s Advisory skills. So the next time a student or patron asks, “Can you recommend some good Nature nonfiction, or books featuring excellent Indigenous Representation?” Our podcast has you covered! 😊

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Episode 605: Starting a New Job or Keeping Your Job Fresh

Welcome back to Season Six of Linking Our Libraries!

Check on our show notes page here, to get the links to other resources, and links to the books we discussed.

This week we look at a skill so many of us will use: starting a new job! When you are new in the library, it can be tough to figure out what you are supposed to be doing, who you are supposed to talk with, and what is going on around you. After you have been there for a while, it’s important to keep working on helping your job to stay fresh. You really don’t want to be one of those people who count down to retirement in the next ten years, while doing nothing more than sitting around complaining.

We have two Guest Hosts this week: Stephanie Schlangen and Glen Irvin, who are technology integration coaches from Sauk Rapids-Rice HS.

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Episode 604: Services for Patrons with Learning Differences

This week we look at services for patrons with learning differences – a skill important in any library.

You can find our show notes page here, with links to all kinds of resources and links to the books we shared.

This week we have a returning Guest Host, director of the libraries at St. Benedict’s College and St John’s University: Kathy Parker.

Libraries are places filled with information. It’s our job as library people to connect that information – the relevant, useful stuff – to the needs of our community members.

I think that over the years, we are becoming better at reaching out to patrons where they are – not insisting they conform to our expectations of how they should want to receive information from us.

It’s a skill we can all improve on, and there are always new strategies to learn about that will help you to provide the best service to your community members. And the challenges people can have in connecting with our information are probably much broader than you are first imagining, so keep working to improve that connection!

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Episode 603: Integrating Tech with Literacy Education

This week we look at strategies you can use to connect technology with literacy skills!

Check our show notes page, to get links to all the resources and links to the books we discussed.

Welcome to our Guest Host Jason Menth, Technology Integrationist at Talahi Community School in St Cloud, MN!

Schools are all about building good literacy skills for students, and the library is an important part of that work! Sure, there are probably a bunch of good books to read – and that’s important. And then, what else can we provide to help kids build their literacy skills?

A few tech tools can go a long way toward encouraging kids to connect with reading, to find some books they enjoy, and to improve performance in school and beyond!

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Episode 602: Professional Development

Our full shownotes page is here. We have links to other resources, and to the books we shared this week!

This week we look at ideas about professional development for library people. We are a fast-moving and ever-changing profession. People who are not keeping up with professional development get left behind – and nobody wants that!

This week we have a returning Guest Host, Leah Larson, LSTA Coordinator at the Minnesota State Library Services.