Welcome back to Season Six of Linking Our Libraries!
Check on our show notes page here, to get the links to other resources, and links to the books we discussed.
This week we look at a skill so many of us will use: starting a new job! When you are new in the library, it can be tough to figure out what you are supposed to be doing, who you are supposed to talk with, and what is going on around you. After you have been there for a while, it’s important to keep working on helping your job to stay fresh. You really don’t want to be one of those people who count down to retirement in the next ten years, while doing nothing more than sitting around complaining.
We have two Guest Hosts this week: Stephanie Schlangen and Glen Irvin, who are technology integration coaches from Sauk Rapids-Rice HS.
We had some extra-adorable guest hosts join us this week!
Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast.
You can get our show notes here! Check it out for links to all kinds of useful resources, and links to the beverages we enjoyed today.
We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we support libraries of all types: schools, publics, academics, and special libraries and archives.
Letting kids choose their own reading materials can be an important way to increase literacy and encourage a love of reading! This week our Guest Hosts are Charlotte, Liam, and Theo, along with their mom Molly. They range in age from about two years old to about eight years old, and they all have very enthusiastic opinions about the books they like to read and the ones they brought to share with us!
Become a full book group member on Patreon! Click here to be part of the “inner circle” of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month – and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today.
We love doing this, but podcasts aren’t free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.
Do you have a book podcast you are particularly fond of listening to? Whether it’s for the book recommendations, themed beverages, or cheerful conversation, we hope one of those podcasts is Reading With Libraries! And we’d like to invite you to support our podcasts on Patreon!
Book club podcast
We’re currently in the middle of releasing Season Four of Reading With Libraries and we continue to learn about all different types of book genres. (For example, the upcoming episode this week is on Engineering Books!) We also create a library skills podcast called Linking Our Libraries and a mini book review podcast called Book Bites.
While we love sharing information with our listeners, each episode we create takes several hours of work. It’s a lot more than just chatting with cool book and library people.
Just a taste of the work that goes into our podcasts: we coordinate and schedule our fabulous guest hosts, research topics, write scripts, do sound editing, create graphics, and distribute the written and recorded content each week! We also pay fees to our excellent contract employee and online audio host.
On Patreon, we have an assortment of different levels you can choose to support us with a monthly fee. And yes, they are book-related words, because you may have noticed: we’re pretty into books here!
Here are a few:
folio: $1 or more per month Our mushy, sincere thanks! Access to Discord chat with fellow book group members! And a postcard from Mary, Angie, and Official Office Dog Lady Grey!
octavo: $5 or more per month Everything from the folio level, plus we mention you in an upcoming episode!
monograph: $10 or more per month Everything from the octavo level, plus we send you a sticker!
We have more choices, including choices for organizations that want to get training sessions from us.
You really want to go to the website to check them all out, because Official Office Dog Lady Grey has a picture at each level – and I promise she’s the cutest thing you’ve seen on a library book group page all week!
Thank you for listening, and thank you for your support! ❤
Summer is busy but it’s also a fantastic time for reading, especially if you get to do it outside, lemonade in hand! And we’d love to hear about the books you read. We’re looking for people to share a quick book review on our Book Bites podcast series.
Book Bites is just what it sounds like: A bite-sized book review in under 5 minutes! We publish these on both our Linking Our Libraries and Reading With Libraries podcast feeds because everyone could use more book ideas 😊
This summer we are really hoping to include more voices from school library people on our podcast (look out for an email from us about this soon!) but know all our library people are probably readers and have interesting book suggestions.
If you have a smartphone or computer, record yourself talking about a book for under five minutes. If you want to invite a friend to talk with you so it’s more like a conversation, awesome. Then send us the recording! Use either admin@cmle.org or ajordan@cmle.org.
We’ll edit the sound to the best of our abilities and publish it on our feeds! Then you can spend the rest of the summer bragging to friends and family that you are now podcast-famous.
As always, questions are welcome! Email me (Angie) ajordan@cmle.org and we’ll figure it out!
Library community, we’ve got great news for you! Tomorrow will begin the fifth season of Linking Our Libraries podcast!!
We began our adventure into podcasting what feels like forever ago and are so happy we are able to continue sharing library information, skills, and leadership strategies with our community.
In Season Five we’ll be talking about practical skills that library people need to be successful in their work. For example, some of the episodes that we’ve already recorded include customer service, social media, and answering tech questions! All of these feature Guest Hosts that have experience in the areas they are discussing, and have plenty of tips you can use in your job.
Feel like getting a refresher? We have all our previous seasons available to stream on our website, or subscribe to our podcast on whatever app you like best! And THANK YOU for listening!
