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Tomorrow: CMLE’s Women’s History Month Read-In!

Join us this Wednesday to celebrate women authors, books with strong female characters, and books about/by inspiring women! It’s the perfect way to wrap up Women’s History Month.

Stop by our Headquarters (570 1st Street SE, St. Cloud, MN 56304) WEDNESDAY March 28 from 11 to 1. Bring a lunch. Enjoy a snack we provide. Bring a book to share, and enjoy all the fun books we will provide to browse!

Want to get a head start on reading about some interesting women? Below are some  lists full of suggestions. Feel free to bring your old/new favorites along to the event to share with us!

Joining us in our book sharing fun will be Office Dog Lady Grey. Come have a snack, hang out with Lady, and chat about books! Hope you can join us!

Books, CMLE

Next Wednesday: Come to our Women’s History Month Read-In!

We had a great time last month with our African American Read-In event and thought we’d do it again this month with a Women’s History Month Read-In! Join us to celebrate women authors, books with strong female characters, and books about/by inspiring women!

Come by our Headquarters (570 1st Street SE, St. Cloud, MN 56304) WEDNESDAY March 28 from 11 to 1. Bring a lunch. Enjoy a snack we provide. Bring a book to share, and enjoy all the fun books we will provide to browse!

It’s not required, but Office Dog Lady Grey is a very good listener, so if you are feeling extra excited and want to share your book with an appreciative audience, she will be all ears!

Members, library friends, well-wishers – we would like to share books with all of you!!

Celebrate Women’s History Month in the best way possible: with lots of good books!

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March books for our Goodreads book groups!

March is here, so let’s start reading some new books in our online book groups! Do you want to join us? Get on Goodreads and search for our groups CMLE Librarian Professionals and CMLE Librarians Enjoying Books. You can simply join our groups or post your thoughts about the books in the discussion!

For our group CMLE Librarian Professionals we will be learning how to strengthen our willpower and reach our goals by reading Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals by Heidi Grant Halvorson.

“The strategies outlined in this book will not only help everyone reach their own goals but will also prove invaluable to parents, teachers, coaches, and employers. Dr. Grant Halvorson shows readers a new approach to problem solving that will change the way they approach their entire lives.”

For our group CMLE Librarians Enjoying Books we will be reading Agatha Christie’s The Body in the Library!

“Colonel Bantry has found the strangled body of an exotic blonde bombshell lying on his library hearth – and the neighbors are beginning to talk! When Miss Marple takes an interest, though, things begin to move along nicely, and its all far more convoluted – and sordid – than the genteel Bantrys could have imagined.”

We hope you can join us in one or both of our online book groups! We wish you happy reading in March!

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Let’s read! Join a CMLE 2018 Goodreads book challenge!

check out this reader! he’s on top of his TBR pile of books! great work Carson!!

We love to read books!

You love to read books!

Let’s all read books this year!!

Building on people’s interest in the books we suggest in our Books And Beverages podcast, we have started two book challenges for everyone in 2018.

Here are a few FAQs you might ask:

Are these high-pressure, high-volume challenges?? NO!

  • One challenge will read 25 books (50 if you get ambitious); the other reads 30. If you don’t get them all? *shrug* Read what you enjoy!

Will everyone point and laugh at me if I read books about vampires or YA books instead of The Important Classics?? NO!

  • Actually – we’ll look forward to your recommendations! We like fun books here, and that can include anything that sounds fun to you, including important classics AND vampires.

I never know what to read next. Can I get some recommendations? YES!

  • We want this to be easy, so one book challenge actually follows our book group podcast topics; you can listen to the suggestions everyone gives, then read a fun book for yourself.

I’m pumped up and ready to read!! Where do I find these so-fun book challenges?

  • CMLE Reading Challenge: Read through our 25 reading prompts for an interesting year in discovery of ideas; read two of each for 50 chances to try more new things and to hear what people have to say in different ways.
  • CMLE Book Group Podcast Reading Challenge: We have a book group podcast, Books And Beverages, and each week we talk about a different genre. For this challenge, you can read a book from each of the first 30 genres we are discussing. If you need book suggestions, you can listen to the handy podcast episode for all kinds of ideas! Join our book group podcast here.

 

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Free art books available to your library!

Beadwork Wire Art and Crafts (27)

This might be a good opportunity for your collection! Art resources tend to be expensive and not well collected; adding some books to your collection can help you to meet the needs of your community members. If you want some help with this application, or creating a collection development policy, just let us know. We are here for you!

“The Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program (D.U.C.) distributes books on contemporary art and culture to public schools, libraries, prisons, and alternative education centers nationwide, free of charge. D.U.C. books create access to the arts and literacy these institutions could not otherwise afford to acquire. To date, the D.U.C. has placed over 436,395 free books in 7,817 public institutions across the country. Visit our distribution map. ”

“If you are a public school or library and define your community as underserved, you are eligible to receive free D.U.C. books. We invite participating libraries to order books from our catalog once annually. Your library may order as many books as you like at one copy per title.

Please browse our catalog and select materials according to the interests and needs of your community. Our catalog is organized by artist, publisher, and theme: we hope these guides will facilitate your search. We also encourage you to use the educational guides available in our journal to assist in incorporating books into classroom curricula and library programming. To place your order, please follow the link at the bottom right of the catalog. You will be prompted to log in or create an account, and follow the links to submit your order. You may expect to receive books within 4-8 weeks of your order.”

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