Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 4th from 3-5pm to write your own messages of library support! We will be working at the Local Blend coffee shop in St. Joe (Postcards, postage, and sample text provided!)
CMLE works to support all of our library members and that means telling legislators, principals, School Board Members, and other important stakeholders about all the amazing work YOU are doing in your library!
Feel free to arrive and depart as your schedule allows, these are casual events! Come enjoy a warm beverage, chat with library fans, and send a few postcards sharing why all types of libraries are important and need funding and support!
Our mission at CMLE is to support YOU, our library community! We bring you resources, events, VR headsets, scholarships and mini-grants, and we advocate for library support to important stakeholders like legislators, principals, and School Board Members.
One of the ways we do this is by hosting Library Advocacy Postcard Parties
We provide the postcards and postage
We give you text examples of what to include in your postcard message
It’s a great time to connect with other library supporters in the area and to share with CMLE staff the challenges and successes happening at your library!
Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 4th from 3-5pm to write your own messages of library support! We will be working at the Local Blend coffee shop in St. Joe.
These are casual events, feel free to arrive and depart as your schedule allows. Email me with any questions: ajordan @ cmle.org (no spaces).
CMLE works to support all of our library members and that means telling legislators, principals, School Board Members, and other important stakeholders about all the amazing work YOU are doing in your library!
One of the ways we do this is by hosting postcard parties! We provide the postcards and postage and give you ideas of what to say in your message. But our main message is: all types of libraries are important and need funding and support!
Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 4th from 3-5pm to write your own messages of library support! We will be working at the Local Blend coffee shop in St. Joe.
If you’ve come to past Postcard Parties, you know they are fun and casual events, just a gathering of library supporters getting together to write to stakeholders about the necessity of supporting libraries!
Any questions, send me an email at ajordan @ cmle.org (no spaces). Mark your calendars and we’ll see you there!
We are looking forward to Sunday, May 5th and our CMLE Tea and Postcard Event at the Mad Hatter Tea House in Anoka!
As one of Minnesota’s multitype systems, we’re always working to connect our members with each other. Library life can be challenging and isolating; come have tea with other library people from the area and share your stories of success and/or struggles!
Thank you to everyone that has already RSVP’d, we can’t wait to see you! If you are still thinking about joining us (and we hope you do!) here are more details:
We will be covering the cost of the tea service for members that RSVP in advance!
We will also be providing postcards for members to sign that CMLE will mail to library stakeholders across our system. Spreading the word about the value of libraries (particularly school libraries!) is something we always strive for at CMLE.
This is our second time having a member tea event at the Mad Hatter. Read about our first event here.
Since our members work in school media centers, history centers, archives, public, and academic libraries, we really appreciate hearing about the variety 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!
Please RSVP below, as we need to make reservations!
Hi CMLE members! We hope you are thinking about joining us for our upcoming member event!
We’ll be having tea, library conversation, and filling out library advocacy postcards to mail to library stakeholders. We had the best time at our last tea event and you can read all about it here.
Join us on Sunday, May 5th at 10:30 at the Mad Hatter Tea House in Anoka. Member events support our mission to connect people from all types of libraries with each other to offer encouragement, brainstorming, and community.
Please RSVP below, as we need to make reservations! And since we do not want cost to prohibit any of our members from joining us, CMLE will cover the cost of tea service for members that RSVP and attend.
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