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Postcard Party Dec. 18th

Library advocacy can seem intimidating, but it is so important, and can actually be fun when you participate with other library people!

Join us on Tuesday, December 18th from 3 – 5pm at the Local Blend in St. Joe. We will be writing out postcards full of library information, stories, and facts to send to stakeholders. We supply the postcards and postage!

We hold Library Advocacy Postcard Parties to spread the word to school boards, city councils, principals, legislators, and other stakeholders about why libraries are so valuable!

Join us for a cup of coffee or some other warm treat to chat about your library and do some advocacy work. Hoping to see you there!

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Mark Your Calendars: Postcard Party on Tues, Dec 18th

We love to see our members coming together to do library advocacy!

We know December is such a long ways off, nearly a whole week away 🙂 but it’s good to plan ahead, so we wanted to give you an early heads-up about our next Library Advocacy Postcard Party!

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, December 18th because we will be having another Postcard Party from 3pm – 5pm at the Local Blend 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!

We hold Library Advocacy Postcard Parties to spread the word to school boards, city councils, principals, legislators, and other stakeholders about why libraries are so valuable!

We provide you with the postcards, you fill them out, and then we get them mailed for you.

Join us, write out postcards with some of your library success stories, and let’s advocate for libraries!

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Tomorrow: Location change! Postcard Party held at CMLE HQ instead

While we are definitely disappointed after looking at the weather forecast for tomorrow (chilly with a side of rainy) we will not be discouraged from our library advocacy efforts! Keep in mind this is Banned Books Week, and writing to library stakeholders about the importance of libraries is a great way to celebrate the right to read!

Stop by our CMLE office tomorrow between 11am – 1pm (although we’re here all day!) to fill out postcards to send to legislators, stakeholders, school board members, principals, and anyone else that needs to learn about the value of libraries. As an additional treat, Official Office Dog Lady Grey will be in attendance to offer encouragement!

We’ll have the postcards, sample text you can use, library facts, and of course, snacks. We will mail your completed postcards too.

Hope to see you tomorrow! We are located inside the cmERDC building at 570 1st St. SE St. Cloud MN 56304. The photo is the outside of our building.

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Next Tuesday: Library Advocacy Postcard Party in the Park!

We don’t mean to alarm you, but since the earliest reported measurable snowfall in Minnesota was on September 14th, 1964, you should probably make the most of our currently comfortable and snow-free outdoor situation! Looking for a way to embrace this? Come to CMLE’s Postcard Party in the Park!

We host our Library Advocacy Postcard Parties several times each year in order to contact library stakeholders to remind them just how valuable and important libraries are to their communities. We mean all types of libraries: public, academic, special, and school.

For this postcard party we are focusing on local officials and decision makers. That means school boards, city council members, principals, and more. We will again provide library advocacy postcards, postage, and yummy snacks to fuel your advocacy efforts! If you are unsure of the identity of your local officials, do some research beforehand, otherwise we’re happy to help you out.

We look forward to seeing you next Tuesday! (If you can’t make it to the Gardens, stop by CMLE HQ and fill out a few postcards and we’ll get them mailed for you).

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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!