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Season 6 Linking Our Libraries Podcast: Episode 601: Working With Teachers! 🎧

We are so happy to be with you again, as we start Season Six of Linking Our Libraries!

You can get our full show notes page here, with links to all the other resources, and links to the books we shared this week.

This week we will work through one of the most important skills for a school library or media center staffer: connecting your services with the teachers in your school. Even if you are not in a school library right now, these partnership skills will always be useful in connecting with your community members and stakeholders.

Our Guest Host this week is Amy Moe, who can share her experience and suggestions on this topic from her time as an Instructional Technology Specialist at Pine Meadow Elementary school! Thank you so much for recording with us, Amy! 😊

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Episode 415: Minnesota ⛄

Welcome, everyone, to our final episode of Season Four of Reading With Libraries! This snowy Thursday is the perfect day to discuss books by Minnesota authors. ❄😊❄

Check out our full show notes page here. We have books, resources, and beverages waiting there for you.

It has been so great to read with you for these fifteen weeks – we just can’t bear for our book fun to end. So while we are on hiatus you will get a Book Bite each week. This is a quickie five-minute sharing of a book by one of our Guests. We have been producing these for a while now, so you can browse our entire archive on our website.

This week we are discussing a favorite topic: Minnesota books! We will look at book set in Minnesota, and books by Minnesota authors. This is always our season finale topic, because we know there are 10,000 lakes here and at least as many good stories!

Who is joining us today? We are welcoming a new Guest Host to be our Minnesota book expert: Wendy Sykes, from the Great River Public Library system!

This is our last episode of the season, but never fear: Tuesday we will start dropping quickie book podcast into this spot on a weekly basis!

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Next Week: Linking Our Libraries Season 6 Premiere!

Fire up those headphones (and your favorite podcast app) because next Thursday, Dec. 19th, we drop the first episode of Season 6 of Linking Our Libraries!

Episode 601: Working With Teachers features Guest Host Amy Moe, Instructional Technology Specialist. We were so pleased she could join us to share suggestions for collaborating with teachers.

Maybe you’ve been enjoying our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries. (We certainly hope so!) This Thursday is our last episode for the season and it is our classic final episode topic: Minnesota Books! Guest Host Wendy brought some excellent titles to share with us and we hope you enjoy the episode and the book suggestions. Catch up on the rest of the season and all previous episodes here.

As always, if you’d like to support our podcasting work, consider joining us on Patreon.

And THANK YOU for listening/subscribing/recording with us! We are so lucky to work with such fantastic members 😊

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Reading With Libraries Episode 410: Kid’s Books, From Kids!

We had some extra-adorable guest hosts join us this week!

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast.

You can get our show notes here! Check it out for links to all kinds of useful resources, and links to the beverages we enjoyed today.

We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we support libraries of all types: schools, publics, academics, and special libraries and archives.

Letting kids choose their own reading materials can be an important way to increase literacy and encourage a love of reading! This week our Guest Hosts are Charlotte, Liam, and Theo, along with their mom Molly. They range in age from about two years old to about eight years old, and they all have very enthusiastic opinions about the books they like to read and the ones they brought to share with us!

Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the “inner circle” of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month – and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today.

We love doing this, but podcasts aren’t free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

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Episode 510: Programs

Welcome back to Season Five of Linking Our Libraries!

Check out our full show notes page here.

In this episode, we will talk about a fun part of library service – Programs. And by “fun” we mean the traditional definition, but also hard, time-consuming, and exhausting. Programs are integral parts to good library service, so let’s chat about doing them well.

But then there is a big hole in the possibilities of what a library can be in a community. Programs provide that missing link of connecting everyone in the community to the library, to the materials, to the resources, and to the services we provide.

This week we have returning Guest Host Kate, from the Great River Regional Library System, to help us get some ideas!

But then there is a big hole in the possibilities of what a library can be in a community. Programs provide that missing link of connecting everyone in the community to the library, to the materials, to the resources, and to the services we provide.