Welcome back to Season Seven of Linking Our Libraries!

We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. Our members are libraries of all sorts: public, schools, academics, special libraries, archives, and history centers. Join us in working thorough skills library staffers can use to be more successful in their work!

This week we are talking about some of the challenges in planning to reopen a school media center. 

Our Guest Host this week is Bethany Rogers, Media Specialist and Book Club Advisor at Rogers High School. 

Today we are going to talk about the reopening plans at Bethany’s school, and help you give some ideas for reopening your library building.  We put together a bonus podcast with information about the state plan here in Minnesota for reopening schools libraries.  You can listen to it in our feed, and walk through the official guidance with us. 

These are the disposable keyboard covers we talked about in the episode.

Books Read

And now we have one of our favorite parts of each episode: sharing books! Each of us will share a book we are reading. Links to each book will be on our show notes page, with a link to Amazon.com. If you buy a nice book – or anything else – Amazon will give us a small percent of their profits. Thanks in advance!!

• Summer of Us, by Lily Morton
• Sabriel, by Garth Nix  Soraapp.com
• This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Conclusion

Thanks to Bethany for working through all these ideas with us!

Thanks to you for joining us this week! It’s always better when you are here with us!

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Check back in with us next week for another library skill!