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This Week: Attend the They/Them Project with CMLE

This Wednesday! Join CMLE and attend the They Them Project Discussion on October 9th at 7pm, Gorecki 204C at the College of St. Ben’s.

Facilitator: Brent Dundore, Creator of the They/Them Project
Participants: Rue Ether, Oscar E. Menjivar and Mikko

The They/Them Project interviews individuals who currently use or previously used gender nonconforming pronouns. The project informs individuals about how words and actions affect the Trans+ community. Brent Dundore has taken photographs of the individuals he interviews. Those photographs will be on display at Alcuin Library.

If CMLE members would like to meet early and go to this event together, please RSVP below!

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Fall Welcome Back Event!

Library friends! Fall will be here soon and CMLE wants to celebrate with you!

Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 26th from 4-7pm! We will be in the Bremer Community Room at the St. Cloud Public Library and will have so many things to share with you! This includes:

  • Information on how to use one of our VR kits for your school
  • Details about our scholarship and mini grant programs
  • Advocacy information you can share far and wide
  • Raffle for books, CMLE merch, and other fun prizes
  • Light refreshments
  • Delightful library company!

Questions? Contact Angie at ajordan @ cmle.org.

Hope to see you there!

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Upcoming CMLE Member Events for 2019!

Have fun with library people!

CMLE members, we love spending time with you! We are already planning several activities and events for the year ahead and want to share our plans with you. (Including our Fall Welcome Back event on Sept. 26th!) Mark your calendars! We hope you can join us!

September:

  • Meet us at Chris Albani: Public reading and talk: Stories of Struggle, Stories of Hope: Art, Politics and Human Rights Tuesday, September 17 at 7:00 p.m. Gorecki Family Theater, Benedicta Arts Center, CSB (free, ticketed event). 
  • CMLE Fall Member Welcome Back Event! Thursday, September 26th from 4-7pm at the Bremer Community Meeting Room at the St. Cloud Public Library. Enjoy raffle prizes, light refreshments, and learn how to bring CMLE VR kits to your school!

October:

December:

  • Wednesday, Dec. 4th: Library Advocacy Postcard Party at Liquid Assets in Sartell. Postcards, postage, and legislator addresses provided!

January:

  • Dinner at Old Chicago! Date and time TBD.

Spring:

  • CMLE-sponsored Library Tea Party at the Mad Hatter in Anoka! (See our event recap from previous years here and here)
  • Roller Derby outing! (Check out pics from last year!)

Do you have an idea for a member event? Email us at admin@cmle.org or comment below! We’ll try to make it happen!

General

Member Events: We went to Roller Derby!

On Saturday, May 18, we took members to our latest member event: Roller Derby!

This match featured the SCAR Dolls against the FORX Roller Derby team. It’s no surprise that the hometown SCAR Dolls were victorious!! They had a very happy, loudly cheering, hometown crowd helping as much as we could to victory!

A quick shot of members at the event! Check out Karen’s zip-up jacket – it’s her roller derby jacket! I definitely benefited from having an experienced derby girl there to explain the nuances of what I was seeing. (There is always strategy in any kind of sport, and knowing what you are seeing makes it much more fun!)

If you wanted to go, and didn’t get a chance, there is one more chance this season! June 15 our hometown team will skate against the Med City Mafia.

Pretty cool to see everyone get rolling at the match!!!

What is coming up next for CMLE Member Events??

So glad you asked!

We have a member camping trip/book discussion in a MN state park (depending on your individual interest!) coming up June 28-30. Check out the details, so far, right here.

We have a bunch of member lunches/workshop discussions in June. Check out our Bootcamp schedule right here!

There is talk of attending a Rox game in July. If this sounds interesting to you, email us at admin @ cmle.org, and we’ll get information out if this develops!

Thanks again to all of our members!!!! You guys are doing such great work in so many different libraries – it’s just fantastic to see the things you do and the library service you create!!!

Programs

CMLE Library Event: We’re Camping!

Camping at Interlochen State Park

We have been chatting with members for a while about trying out a library camping trip – and now we are ready to make it a reality!

We are just getting started with working through the planning, and will keep you up to date as things firm up. But we want to give people a chance to have some fun with other library people, and to have fun exploring on their own – so it will all be pretty loose!

I have to say, we’ve had such fun with member events this year that we are looking forward to trying a new one!

This is NOT LIMITED to just members! If you work in a library, we want to hear from you!!

WHEN are we going? We have reservations for Fri June 28 – Sun June 30. You can come and stay one night, two nights, or no nights. We welcome people who want to come for an afternoon of fun on Saturday, and will have a couple scheduled events to help you plan your time.

WHERE are we going? As this is our first group camping event, we don’t want to go too far from home yet. So we are going to go to Lake Maria State Park. Here is their photo tour.

We are going to reserve their Group Camping site. It’s probably not the most beautiful in the park – but we will have plenty of room for everyone to pitch a tent and enjoy some outdoor time! And there will be lots of beautiful things for everyone to enjoy. We will be right on a hiking trail, so you will have easy access to explore some of the nice trails at this park!

There is a parking lot next to our camping area, so you can park and go forth from there. Or you can park closer to the park entrance and hike back to us.

WHAT is happening? We have reserved two nights. We will take names of people who want to come and hang with library people, so we know who to expect. You can come for either night, or both. You can even just stop by for an afternoon, to enjoy some outdoor time with a lovely group of people – or just to enjoy the park!

Saturday we will have two hour-long sessions scheduled to talk books and libraries. If you want to come for a shorter visit, this is a good opportunity. Chat with us, then spend some time on the trails before you head home.

We will talk books at 11:00 and at 2:00 on Saturday. We will pull up chairs, or sit at the picnic tables, to talk about books, Readers Advisory, and any other library topics. Drop by on your own schedule.

BONUS! We have a variety of books we will give away to attendees!

(Mary will be on-site the whole time, ready to answer questions or provide library-related camping thoughts!)

If you have not been to this park yet, you are in for a treat! There are several trails to hike, with different levels of difficulty to suit the interests and abilities of all levels of hikers. It’s just lovely! We will provide some hiking maps to our campers (and day visitors). There is a small, but very nice, nature center.

There will almost certainly be s’mores in the evenings. (I mean: is it even a camping trip without s’mores?? Seems unlikely.)

HOW??? I know we have a lot of camping people in our membership – great! (It’s not a requirement, of course – we embrace diversity of all sorts, including in the camping area!)

So if you want to give camping a try, but are not filled with equipment, we can work on finding some to borrow from people not able to attend. I find that people who camp tend to have excessive amounts of stuff – and that camping people are nice people who could be persuaded to share. (Heck – I have three sleeping bags and two tents myself, so we have at least a couple of people covered right there!)

WHO?? Come alone! Bring a friend! Bring the kids! (Note on that: Yes, we would be happy to see your family and kids! But we will count on you to know whether sleeping outside is too scary, or whether a day visit is more fun for younger people. )

We anticipate this will be a nice group of library-related people, and that we will get a chance to meet some new people and have some less-typical library fun!

Wrap It Up: We will have plenty of time to work out all the details, to give everyone the best chance to have fun on this member event!! It will be lovely to see you – for a night, for two, or just a few hours on Saturday! Library people are always fun, camping people are nice; put the two together and I think we are going to have a lovely member event!