Tag Archives: Advocacy

Dec 4th 2019: Join CMLE at a Postcard Party!

Our mission at CMLE is to support YOU, our library community! We bring you resources, events, VR headsets, scholarships and mini-grants, and we advocate for library support to important stakeholders like legislators, principals, and School Board Members.

  • One of the ways we do this is by hosting Library Advocacy Postcard Parties
  • We provide the postcards and postage
  • We give you text examples of what to include in your postcard message
  • It’s a great time to connect with other library supporters in the area and to share with CMLE staff the challenges and successes happening at your library!

Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 4th from 3-5pm to write your own messages of library support! We will be working at the Local Blend coffee shop in St. Joe.

These are casual events, feel free to arrive and depart as your schedule allows. Email me with any questions: ajordan @ cmle.org (no spaces).

Mail Some Library Advocacy Postcards With CMLE!

Join us on Dec. 4th!

CMLE works to support all of our library members and that means telling legislators, principals, School Board Members, and other important stakeholders about all the amazing work YOU are doing in your library!

One of the ways we do this is by hosting postcard parties! We provide the postcards and postage and give you ideas of what to say in your message. But our main message is: all types of libraries are important and need funding and support!

Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 4th from 3-5pm to write your own messages of library support! We will be working at the Local Blend coffee shop in St. Joe.

If you’ve come to past Postcard Parties, you know they are fun and casual events, just a gathering of library supporters getting together to write to stakeholders about the necessity of supporting libraries!

Any questions, send me an email at ajordan @ cmle.org (no spaces).
Mark your calendars and we’ll see you there!

Participate in Minnesota Library Legislative Day AND Virtual Legislative Week!

We talk a lot about library advocacy at CMLE. That’s because it is super important! We need to be telling people (especially people who are in charge of making decisions about your library) just how vital library services are to schools, universities, and entire communities!

And good news: there is a day devoted to doing just that! On Tuesday, Feb. 26th you can go to the MN Capitol to speak with legislators and encourage them to support libraries!

Or, you can stay a bit closer to home and come to CMLE HQ in St. Cloud, where we will be hosting a Virtual Legislative Day! Our office will have snacks, sample texts for messages to send your representatives, and library advocacy postcards for you to send to stakeholders.

We’ll be available in our office from 9am – 6pm that day and hope you can stop in! We want to help make it easy for you to participate in MN Library Legislative Day and speak up for your library!

Watch this video for a quick intro to MN Library Legislative Day. Then make sure to visit the MN Library Advocacy Website! You can find more details about the day at the State Capitol with this post from MLA.

Postcard Party Dec. 18th

Library advocacy can seem intimidating, but it is so important, and can actually be fun when you participate with other library people!

Join us on Tuesday, December 18th from 3 – 5pm at the Local Blend in St. Joe. We will be writing out postcards full of library information, stories, and facts to send to stakeholders. We supply the postcards and postage!

We hold Library Advocacy Postcard Parties to spread the word to school boards, city councils, principals, legislators, and other stakeholders about why libraries are so valuable!

Join us for a cup of coffee or some other warm treat to chat about your library and do some advocacy work. Hoping to see you there!

Mark Your Calendars: Postcard Party on Tues, Dec 18th

We love to see our members coming together to do library advocacy!

We know December is such a long ways off, nearly a whole week away 🙂 but it’s good to plan ahead, so we wanted to give you an early heads-up about our next Library Advocacy Postcard Party!

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, December 18th because we will be having another Postcard Party from 3pm – 5pm at the Local Blend in St. Joe! 

If you’ve come to past Postcard Parties, you know they are fun and casual events, just a gathering of library supporters getting together to write to stakeholders about the necessity of supporting libraries!

We hold Library Advocacy Postcard Parties to spread the word to school boards, city councils, principals, legislators, and other stakeholders about why libraries are so valuable!

We provide you with the postcards, you fill them out, and then we get them mailed for you.

Join us, write out postcards with some of your library success stories, and let’s advocate for libraries!