Library Life Online

Bookmark this page! We will continue adding resources CONSTANTLY! If you need something specific – let us know and we will try to track it down and share it here.

SCROLL DOWN! Newer information is being added at the bottom of these lists of content!!

If you get stuck, or need more ideas, email Mary at: mary@cmle.org and I’ll try to help you with an individual situation.

We’re Sending You Mail!

Do you want a cheerful postcard? Sign up! Do you have kids, or grand-kids, who would like a postcard sent directly to them? Sign up! Do you have students who can check with their adults, then sign up to get a postcard? Share this link!

DAILY Activities Page For Libraries To Share!

We are creating a page each day: “What Are We Doing Today?” that you can share with your students and community members! Link to that page on your website, on your social media, in newsletters, and anywhere else.

Each day we will post videos, crafts, art and writing prompts, science projects, book ideas, and more.

We will create a page each day the schools are closed in Minnesota, so you will have all kinds of information to share.

If you have ideas, or material we can post – send it to us!

We have things For You, Your Library,
and Your Community!

We have a variety of resources available for you. Take all of these and use them in your work, put the links onto your website, share them with your community in your social media or newsletters. And if you need more individual assistance, email us at admin@cmle.org.

This is your chance to show your community how valuable you are to them. There are a lot of services you can continue to provide to people who are at home, bored, and in need of the work a library can do.

Resources for Working At Home

  • Provide chat reference work
  • Set up Zoom sessions, or other video conferencing strategies to talk with patrons so they can see you
  • Make a daily book suggestion video – five minutes on a book will be a great YouTube video for your patrons
  • Online instruction resources (coming soon!)
  • Do some online training (CMLE has some resources – with more to come!)
  • Make a list of the best books to read when stuck at home
  • Make a list of the best movies to watch when stuck at home
  • Make a song playlist on Spotify for listening to at home – or make one for doing homework to, and one for having crazy dance party time
  • Set up a daily book video chat, and talk about a new book each day; take questions from your community members
  • Citizen science projects – there are lots of resources for this, some that can be done at home, some that can be done outside (with good social distancing still in place)
  • The Art Of Working Remotely: How To Ensure Productivity Vs. A Time Suck
  • COVID-19: Special Offers, News, and Updates From Library Vendors, Publishers, Online Services, and Others
  • Distance Learning from One Teacher To Another

Resources to Share With Patrons

  • PebbleGo Bingo Cards, “Grab these free downloadables & share them with your students, other teachers, and parents!”
  • “These Artists Are Making Free Coloring Pages For You To Enjoy” from BookRiot
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Learning at home material “For students in grades K-12, we offer a week or more worth of daily activities and instructions for parents to facilitate the exploration of different scientific concepts. All of these activities are broken up by grade level and aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, so you can be assured that your children are learning content that will help them keep pace academically.”
  • The Cotsen Children’s Library presents…The Missing Tiger: A Sherlock Holmes Virtual Escape Room “A rare Sumatran tiger has escaped from the London Zoo! Professor Stamford, President of the Zoological Society of London, calls for Sherlock Holmes to help track down the missing cat. Since time is of the essence, Holmes requests your assistance.”
  • SciStarter Resources for Librarians and Facilitators: Libraries make excellent partners for Citizen Science Projects because you already know your communities so well, and no one works harder to provide services and lifelong learning opportunities to the entire community, cradle through gray