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! I’m Angie!

This week we are talking about some of the challenges in planning to reopen a public library during a global pandemic. 

Our Guest Host this week is Ariel Kurst, from the Great River Regional Library System. 

Today we are going to talk about the reopening plans at Ariel’s library, and help you give some ideas for reopening your library building.  We have 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 if you are subscribed to this podcast, or stream it on our website. Then walk through the official guidance with us. 

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!!

• Get In Trouble, by Kelly Link
• The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildland
• Wow, No Thank You, by Samantha Irby

Conclusion

Thanks to Ariel 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!