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Upcoming Literary Events at St. Ben’s in Feb. and March

CMLE members, we would love to have you join us in February and March to attend some author events at the College of St. Benedict! RSVP at the bottom of this post and let us know if you can join us! 😊

From the St. Ben’s website:

In February:
“Sally Wen Mao is the is the 2019-2020 Sister Mariella Gable Award recipient for her work Oculus and will be in residence February 2, 2020 through February 5, 2020. Her reading will take place on February 4th in Upper Gorecki at 7:00 PM. “

In March:
“Susan Steinberg’s first novel Machine will be published by Graywolf in August 2019. She is also author of the story collections Spectacle (Graywolf), Hydroplane (FC2), and The End of Free Love (FC2). Public Reading: March 10 in Upper Gorecki at 7:00PM.”                      

More info available on the St. Ben’s Literary Arts website.

RSVP to attend with CMLE and let us know if you can attend in February or March or both!                                      

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Come see Joyce Carol Oates with CMLE!

CMLE members, we are so excited about this event! We hope you can join us on Tuesday, Feb. 19th at 7pm to attend “An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates” at St. Ben’s!

We’re getting together a group of members to attend the event together because library people at an author event is a guaranteed great time!

In fact, we even have THREE EXTRA TICKETS to give to the first three members that RSVP! We’ll be sitting together and are looking forward to a great evening. (RSVP at the bottom of this post).

Get more information and purchase your own tickets from the St. Ben’s website:

“Joyce Carol Oates is the author of multiple best-selling novels and critically-acclaimed collections of short fiction, as well as essays, plays, poetry, and a memoir.  Writing in The Nation, critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. said, “A future archeologist equipped only with her oeuvre could easily piece together the whole of postwar America.”

She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  In 2010, President Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal.”

We hope you can join us at this event! RSVP below:

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We’ve Learned: Staffing News and Updates from Around the Region

We’ve Learned… is designed to keep our readers informed about news concerning personnel in CMLE libraries/media centers. Please keep us informed of any “happenings” regarding staff members in your area so that we can include them in the next write-up! Happenings can include: changes in staffing, awards, honors… you get the idea!

  • Amy Springer has left her position at the College of St. Ben’s/St. John’s University and now works at the University of Minnesota. The Clemens Library and Alcuin Library at the College of St. Ben’s/St. John’s University is currently accepting applications for a Business Information and Outreach Librarian with an ALA-Accredited Master’s Degree in Library Science. Click here to review the full job description.