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Reading With Libraries Episode 410: Kid’s Books, From Kids!

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.

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CMLE Shop Now Open

Stickers and pop sockets available!

We are excited to have another way our awesome members and library community can participate in and support the work we’re doing!

Our shop has many colors of stickers and a Reading With Libraries pop socket available to purchase. We are hoping to expand over time and offer more choices!

Check it out and rock some CMLE swag this winter! We always appreciate your support! ❤💕😊

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Join Reading With Libraries on Patreon!

You can help support our podcasts!

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.

Therefore, we’d like to invite you to share in the book group effort.

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! ❤

Books

Episode 309 Short Stories and Essays

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries!

Check out our shownotes page right here, and get all the links to beverages we enjoyed and books we discussed today.

Who is joining us this week? We are excited to welcome returning Guest Host Emily Kissaine from State Library Services!

These are fun genres to read when you know you have a short amount of time, are traveling, or have other reasons for just wanting to take a bit of reading – not a big commitment. These can be perfect little jewels of stories, fiction or nonfiction; or they are interesting but not enough content to be sustained for an entire book. They are short and just right for that length.

Check out this episode!

CMLE, Training

Training Tips: CMLE has material for you!

We are very interested in helping all our members (and other library people!) get the training they need to be ready to serve their communities. Working in libraries means constant change, new services coming along all the time. Staying on top of it all is tough!

CMLE will work to provide training in areas helpful to our community members. Some of that is in person, and it is fun to connect with each other as we work through ideas. Other material is on our website. We provide online training material for all types of libraries, including:

  • Linking Our Libraries podcast: training on all kinds of topics library people need, with a focus on leadership skills in different situations (subscribe, or stream from our site; read all the info on our site)
  • Reading With Libraries podcast: reader’s advisory material, with a new genre discussed each week; book recommendations, links to resources, and guest hosts to share ideas all combine to make this a fun and useful book group podcast (subscribe, or stream from our site; read all the info on our site)
  • Book Bouquets: a weekly series of books grouped around a specific topic; provided for people’s own TBR list, or to set up displays in their libraries; flyers included each week
  • Spotlight Program series: weekly series of programs that can be put on in any library, usually at low (or no) cost, and with little prep time
  • Read Across Minnesota series: a weekly book shared from a Minnesota author, or set in Minnesota; comes with a Google map to show locations of each book

What other topics would be helpful to you, as you work in your library?? We are here to find training ideas for you – either provided in-house, or we will help to track down some other training opportunities for you!