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Children's services, Programs

Library Staff serving Youth Meet-Up in New Ulm

Do you work with young people at your library? Do you want to connect with other people from all different types of libraries that also work with youth? Do you like FREE professional development events?! Then mark your calendars for this event on Saturday, October 6th!

“Join other library staff working with kids at this unique professional development meet-up. Get together with area colleagues to share experiences and ideas. Potential topics include using ebooks Minnesota, successful school and public library collaborations, and building your local networks.  The agenda will be refined by the registered participants.

Library staff working with youth from all kinds of libraries are welcome to participate in this free professional development event.

Sponsored by Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education. Up to 3 continuing education contact hours are available.”

After the event you can check out the area of New Ulm, which includes Schell’s Brewery, a state park, and plenty of German heritage! For more information, check out the event page.

CMLE, Programs

Are you coming to tea with CMLE?

Getting together with our members in person is always something we value at CMLE. Since our members work in school media centers, history centers, archives, public, and academic libraries, we really appreciate learning about the diversity of tasks and challenges you handle every day! Plus, we love when our members get to meet each other and form connections across different types of libraries.

So, with that in mind, we are excitedly looking forward to our CMLE Tea event on September 30th! This will take place at the Mad Hatter Restaurant, in Anoka at 10:30am. (Have you been there before? We have not and are really excited, it looks like a delightful place!)

To make this event more accessible to our members we are also offering “scholarships” to CMLE members who RSVP to us by Monday, Sept 24. We will cover the cost of your Queen of Hearts tea service if you respond below. (We need to make reservations!)

Advocacy, CMLE, Communication, Programs

Two Upcoming CMLE Social Events!

There are so many reasons September is great: back to school, pumpkin spice lattes, and TWO opportunities for you to connect with other awesome library folks! We want to meet in different places, so we can try out new things, and we can be closer to different members at different times.

On Tuesday, September 25th, we’ll be having a Postcard Party in the Park! Join us at Munsinger Gardens in St. Cloud from 11-1pm and let’s do some library advocacy! We provide postcards and postage, along with sample text, and we write to our legislators and local decision makers to urge them to support all types of libraries.

 

And on Sunday, September 30th, we’re doing something a little extra special: having tea! Join us at the Mad Hatter Restaurant, in Anoka at 10:30am. We do ask that you RSVP if you plan to join us for this event. We’ll talk libraries, hear about summer adventures, and enjoy delicious refreshments!

 

We hope to see you at one or both of our events. One of our goals as a multitype system is to connect members of the library community with each other, to network and share ideas and challenges. We can’t wait to see you!

CMLE, Communication, General

Next Monday! CMLE’s fall social event!

We know it’s getting to be that tough time of year when days get shorter, temps get chilly, and you are so busy you don’t know how you will do it all! Come relieve some stress with CMLE! We will be enjoying dinner and each other’s company next Monday, Oct. 23rd at Old Chicago in St. Cloud at 5:30pm.

Join us for library conversation and a chance to meet your colleagues from different types of libraries! We have had so much fun at our past social events and we can’t wait to see you there!

RSVP below:

CMLE, Communication

Join CMLE for dinner and socializing July 20th!

We are looking forward to our summer social event, when we will be able to get together for some great food and fun talk about libraries!

Based on a recent poll, this will be a dinner event. This is the first of two summer social events, since we want to try to make it as easy as possible for members and library people to attend!

Thursday, July 20th
5:30 pm
The White Horse
809 West Saint Germain, St Cloud, MN 56301

 The White Horse Restaurant and Bar doesn’t take reservations so CMLE staff will arrive a little early to hold a table or two.

We really enjoyed having our social events in the winter and spring; and are looking forward to hearing from you guys about your summer work, any plans you are making for upcoming programs, and any other interesting library things you want to share! (And it’s ALL interesting when it comes to library stuff!!)

So join us on Thursday July 20th and we’ll have some happy library conversation and enjoy some good food! Email us with any questions, and we hope to see you there! 🙂

Please RSVP if you can, it will make our planning easier!

Are you attending Thurs 7/20?