Podcasts about reading with libraries

This is our season finale! It's been so great to read with you all season - thanks for sharing this journey with us. As we always do, we will be on hiatus for the summer. But don't worry about being left with no book discussion! We will be dropping a short Browsing Books episode every Tuesday here, with a fun fact about a Minnesota county, and six book suggestions to go with the fact. And we'll be back with another season of Reading With Libraries in September!   Usually our final episode of the season looks at Minnesota books and authors, and of course we are always fans and supporters of these books! This season we are taking a different direction, and taking a closer look at DEI books - books that discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion.    As library people, we of course recognize and celebrate the need and opportunity to add books to a collection to ensure everyone in the community will see themselves in a book. And books also give us a chance to reach beyond ourselves and our own experiences to learn more about other people. This should not be controversial - it's a chance to enjoy new books, learn about new experiences, and build empathy for people's lives.  And we have a special guest joining us this week: Zurya Anjum is a member of the CMLE Board of Trustees and also the Great River Regional Library System Board! She is a parent, concerned about bringing the best books to schools; and she is a fan of promoting wider reading opportunities for DEI books. Thanks so much for joining us, Zurya!

Welcome to Reading With Libraries! (I'm Angie/I'm Mary) We're so happy to have you join us on the Eighth Season of our book group and Reader's advisory podcast! You can find our full show notes page here, with information about all the books we discuss this week. We have more genres to discuss and new books to recommend. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too!  Our organization is the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. At CMLE, we work with all types of libraries. We are starting our new season off with a special pop culture episode! The historical romance Outlander begins its 6th season on the Starz network and we're sharing some books that you might enjoy along with the show! 

You can find our full show notes here, with links to everything we discussed today. Earlier this season we talked about the three required courses in this certification program. This week we are talking about one of the competencies that is optional: Youth Services. Today is our last topic! It's been great talking about all of these ideas with you! “These competencies are for support staff working in a public library in service to youth, from birth through age seventeen. Services to youth include collection development, programming, providing readers' advisory and reference services, and teaching information literacy skills and related activities.” This was a quick overview of all ten of the topics in the ALA/APA's certification topics for library staffers. And if you want to find out more about getting certified yourself, check the website (linked in our show notes), or just email us at admin@cmle.org. It has been great talking about library skills with you all season! This is our final show of season nine - but don't worry about us leaving you. We will be back here on Tuesday with another season of our series Browsing Books. We will keep looking at counties in Minnesota, finding an interesting fact about each, and suggesting books you can enjoy for yourself or recommend to your patrons. Subscribe today to our sister podcast: Reading With Libraries! We will start a new season of this book group next Thursday. Join us each week for a new genre, tasty beverages to share, and a lot of books to discuss!

Earlier this season we talked about the three required courses in this certification program. This week we are talking about one of the competencies that is optional: Readers Advisory.  We feel very qualified to discuss this, as we have been recording an RA podcast for years now: Reading With Libraries. Subscribe today!   Check out our full show notes page here, with all our links and information from today's episode!   In recent years, Readers' Advisory Services have expanded from assisting library users with identifying books to read, to assisting users with identifying materials for viewing and listening. These services consist of recommending titles of potential interest to the user to match the user's interests and experience as well as promoting the collection.

Thank you for joining us on the SEVENTH SEASON of our Reader's Advisory podcast! We have more genres to discuss, new books to recommend, and we're so glad you're here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too!   Check out our full show notes here. And today's episode is very special: this is our official 100th episode! Yes, there have been a few bonus episodes, and we include our short Browsing Books episodes when this show is on hiatus for our sister podcast: Linking Our Libraries. So while we have been with you for many more than 100 episodes, we have really enjoyed being with you and chatting about 100 genres!  We want to thank you, the listeners, who have been with us since the beginning - special thanks to Chuck and Ralph who have been such good supporters! We want to thank people who drop in for episodes they like. And also to the listeners who are newbies - it's great to have you join us. And to make our celebration complete, we have invited back our Podcast Correspondent: Ariel from the Great River Regional Library System! Thanks for joining us again! 

Welcome to Reading With Libraries! Thank you for joining us on the SEVENTH SEASON of our Reader's Advisory podcast! We have more genres to discuss, new books to recommend, and we're so glad you're here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too!  Check out our full show notes page here. We link to books, resources, and the beverages we share today! Today's books are fun, and should give you some ideas about assorted business, psychology, self-help, and other books that you can recommend to your patrons - as well as enjoying them yourself! Our Guest Host this week is new to the book group, and we are happy to welcome him: Shaun Keeley is the Director of Student Life, from the St Cloud Technical and Community College. Thanks for joining us, Shaun! We share the recipes for the beverages we are enjoying while we chat about books. We have links to the resources we share. And we give you a list of the books we are discussing today, with links to Amazon so you can get more info about each one. Join us to be a part of the book group fun!

Welcome to Reading With Libraries! Thank you for joining us on the SEVENTH SEASON of our Reader's Advisory podcast! We have more genres to discuss, new books to recommend, and we're so glad you're here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too!  Check out today's show notes here, with links to the beverages we enjoy, the resources we share, and the books we discuss. Our organization is the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. At CMLE, we work with all types of libraries. We love talking about books that appeal to all ages. This week's genre definitely fits into that category. We're talking historical nonfiction picture books!  And we're so excited to welcome returning Guest Host Kelly Groth! Kelly has talked with us about children's books before and we're so happy she's able to join us again! 

Welcome to Reading With Libraries!   We are taking a small detour from our usual book group structure to look at some of the pop culture going on around us. And of course: we share related books! As we always do: grab your book, grab a beverage, and maybe get your computer warmed up because you are going to want to read this!  Today we are chatting about a very cool genre on its own, and one that has also spawned a lot of commercially published books: Fanfiction. Check out our full show notes page here!

Welcome to Reading With Libraries! Check out our show notes page, for all the links to the books we have to share. We are taking a small detour from our usual book group structure to look at some of the pop culture going on around us. And of course: we share related books! As we always do: grab your book, grab a beverage, and maybe get your streaming subscription warmed up because you are going to want to see this! Today we are chatting about the new movie coming out tomorrow: Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand. In this movie “After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.”  This movie is based on the book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, by Jessica Bruder. “From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads.”

Welcome to Reading With Libraries! We are taking a small detour from our usual book group structure to look at some of the pop culture going on around us. And of course: we share related books! As we always do: grab your book, grab a beverage, and maybe get your streaming subscription warmed up because you are going to want to see this! Today we are chatting about the mega-hit Bridgerton! This is streaming on Netflix right now, with all of Season One available. Check out our show notes page here, for all the info and for links to some other books you might enjoy!    

Welcome, everyone, to our final episode of Season Six of Reading With Libraries!  It has been so great to read with you for this season – we just can’t bear for our book fun to end. So while we are on hiatus you will get a Browsing Books quick episode each week. We give you a book prompt for each state park, to highlight something neat at the park. Each week, we talk about six books to meet a prompt.  We have been producing these for a while now, so you can browse our entire archive on our website. This week we are discussing a favorite topic: Minnesota books! We will look at book set in Minnesota, and books by Minnesota authors. This is always our season finale topic, because we know there are 10,000 lakes here and at least as many good stories! Our full show notes page is right here! Who is joining us today? We are welcoming back our CMLE Podcast Correspondent Ariel Kirst, from the Great River Public Library system! Thanks for joining us again today!

Hi everyone! Welcome back to your book group podcast, Reading With Libraries! We are here to talk about books, to enjoy some beverages, and to have this time together. Thanks for joining us! It’s hard to be an expert on ALL of the great books out there! So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar area for you! We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we are here to support all of our 300 member libraries. They all like books, we like to share books with our patrons, and we know you like books too. So let’s jump in here and discuss some books in today’s genre! Your ears do not deceive you. We have indeed discussed this topic; it’s a pretty big topic of discussion around the world right now. You can listen to Episode 512 from last season for some other ideas. As in that episode, the books we discuss will be so much scarier than our current reality that it will probably make you feel better just to listen to them. You can read our full show notes page here, with links to resources, to the beverages we are enjoying, and the books we share! And our returning Guest Host is Kelly from St. John’s and St Ben’s College libraries!

Hi everyone! Welcome back to your book group podcast, Reading With Libraries! We are here to talk about books, to enjoy some beverages, and to have this time together. Thanks for joining us! Check out our full show notes page here. We have links to all the books we discuss today, the beverages we enjoyed, and all the resources we have to share. It’s hard to be an expert on ALL of the great books out there! So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar area for you! This week we are enjoying a much-loved genre in our office: Libraries and Librarians! We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we are here to support all of our 300 member libraries. They all like books, we like to share books with our patrons, and we know you like books too. So let’s jump in here and discuss some books in today’s genre! Who is with us today? And our Returning Podcast Correspondent is Ariel! She works at the Great River Regional Library System. Welcome back to the book group!

Hi everyone! Welcome back to your book group podcast, Reading With Libraries! We are here to talk about books, to enjoy some beverages, and to have this time together. Thanks for joining us! It’s hard to be an expert on ALL of the great books out there! So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar area for you! This week we are enjoying a new genre to the show: Sports Fiction! We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we are here to support all of our 300 member libraries. They all like books, we like to share books with our patrons, and we know you like books too. So let’s jump in here and discuss some books in today’s genre!

Thank you for joining us on SEASON SIX of Reading With Libraries! It’s a new season with new genres to discuss (and some we’ll revisit, like we’re doing this week) and we’re so glad you’re here to join us. This is our book group podcast, so we are here to share beverages and books! You can find our full show notes page here, with links to all the books we share and the beverages we enjoyed. We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. At CMLE, we work with all types of libraries. So books are important to us.   And this week we’re welcoming back Stephanie Todd from the St. Cloud Technical and Community College Library! We’re so glad you could join us again.    We started this podcast to provide information for our library community doing Reader’s Advisory work. It’s hard to be an expert on ALL of the great books out there! So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar area for you! This week we are excited to revisit the genre of Historical Fiction! We discussed this genre WAY back in an earlier season (Episode 114 to be exact, and you can listen to it here) but there are so many fantastic historical fiction books out there, we knew we’d have to return to it soon!

Thank you for joining us on SEASON SIX of Reading With Libraries! It’s a new season with new genres to discuss (and some we’ll revisit!) and we’re so glad you’re here to join us. This is a book group podcast, and we are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. At CMLE, we work with all types of libraries. This week we’re revisiting Fantasy and Sci-Fi, but this time focusing on LGBTQIA rep in the genre. And we’re so pleased to be joined again by Kelly, librarian from the St. Ben’s/St. John’s libraries!  You can check out our full show notes page here, with all the links to the books we shared and the beverages we enjoyed!      

Thank you for joining us on SEASON SIX of Reading With Libraries! It’s a new season with new genres to discuss (and some we’ll revisit!) and we’re so glad you’re here to join us. This is our book group podcast, so we are here to share beverages and books! You can read our full shownotes page right here, with links to all the beverages are along with links to all of the books we are sharing today. We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. At CMLE, we work with all types of libraries. So, sharing books is important to us, and this book group gives us the chance to talk about all kinds of books with you! This book group podcast is for everyone who likes books - including our library people who need to recommend books to patrons who like all kinds of different subjects. It’s hard to be an expert on ALL of the great books out there! So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar area for you! This week our Podcast Correspondent is Ariel Kirst, from the Great River Regional Library System. Ariel is a frequent part of this podcast, and we are so happy to have her with us to start off this new season!

Welcome, everyone, to our final episode of Season Five of Reading With Libraries! It has been so great to read with you for these fifteen weeks – we just can’t bear for our book fun to end. So while we are on hiatus you will get a Browsing Books quick episode each week. You can follow our Goodreads book challenge: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a book prompt for each state park, to highlight something neat at the park. Here is our full show notes page. This week we are discussing a favorite topic: Minnesota books! We will look at book set in Minnesota, and books by Minnesota authors. This is always our season finale topic, because we know there are 10,000 lakes here and at least as many good stories! Who is joining us today? We are welcoming back our frequent Alternate Host Ariel Kirst, from the Great River Public Library system!

Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We are so glad you are here to join our book group podcast! Our full show notes page is right here. So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar genre! This week we do want to give you a heads up that we’re discussing a topic that might not be for everyone - books about or featuring pandemics. Based on current events, we thought people might be interested to learn more, but we also recognize this content may not be what you want to hear right now! This week’s Additional Host is Ariel Kirst, from Great River Public Library! Each week we like to connect the theme of our books with our beverages. We have several options for beverages to enjoy during a pandemic. If you missed our episode on Dystopian fiction, it was episode 205. A quick listen to that, and reading some of those books, will help you to keep things in perspective as we all work though our current situation.

Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We are so glad you are here to join our book group podcast! This week we’re excited to explore a very popular genre: High Fantasy! We are so pleased to welcome new Guest Host Eric from the St. Cloud Public Library! You can find our full show notes page here. Each week we like to connect the theme of our books with our beverages. Today we have drinks from the blog The Sword and Torch Inn. They warn: “The drinking feats mentioned in this list are not recommended in real life unless you happen to be an Orc barbarian or a half dragon.” We are sipping slowly and taking our chances!

Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We are so glad you are here to join our book group podcast! This week we’re embracing the season and talking about books to enjoy during spring. Thank you so much to frequent Guest Host Ariel for joining us! Each week we like to connect the theme of our books with our beverages. Today we have drinks that channel the excitement of springtime! All the recipes for beverages are on our show notes page. We’re excited to share books with spring themes like flowers and gardens, or simply books that are even more enjoyable in the spring. Spring is such a relief after long Minnesota winters so we hope we’ve shared some books that can make your enjoyment of the season even better!

Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We are so glad you are here to join our book group podcast! This week we’re discussing environmental books for kids and are so excited to welcome a new Guest Host to the podcast: Beth Russell from the Rockford Middle School-Center for Environmental Studies. Thanks for joining us, Beth! We will be talking about environmental books that are both fiction and nonfiction, with a specific focus on titles for young readers. Check out our full show notes page. We have links to the books we discuss this week, and the beverages we shared!

This season we are suggesting books you might enjoy for our Goodreads group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a prompt connected to each state park, and you find a book to fulfill the challenge. You can use one of our suggestions, and you should feel free to read any book! Check out our show notes page here. We give you links to all the books we shared in this episode. Banning State Park was established in 1963. “September 1, 1894, the great Hinckley forest fire swept through the area." This was an enormous disaster for the area, and the state of Minnesota. Read a book about a disaster of any sort, especially if there is a happy ending. You can find more books on this subject on our reading group podcast Reading With Libraries, episode 405: Natural Disasters. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We are so glad you are here to join our book group podcast! You can find our full show notes page here. We give you links to all the beverages we enjoyed, and the books we share here. We started this podcast to provide useful information for library people doing Reader’s Advisory work. There are so many books out there that it’s tough to be an expert on all of them. So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar genre! This week we’re talking about a very popular genre: chick lit! Thank you to our returning Guest Host Ariel for coming to share books with us!

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 find our full shownotes page here, with links to all our resources and books discussed. This week we’re discussing YA books that help teen boys to develop a love of reading. We’ll share book titles and ideas to encourage them to form strong reading habits while still in school. We are so pleased to welcome back a Guest Host with firsthand experience with this issue - Bethany Kauffman, media specialist from Rogers High School!

Welcome, everyone, to our final episode of Season Four of Reading With Libraries! Check out our full show notes page here. We have books, resources, and beverages waiting there for you. It has been so great to read with you for these fifteen weeks – we just can’t bear for our book fun to end. So while we are on hiatus you will get a Book Bite each week. This is a quickie five-minute sharing of a book by one of our Guests. We have been producing these for a while now, so you can browse our entire archive on our website. This week we are discussing a favorite topic: Minnesota books! We will look at book set in Minnesota, and books by Minnesota authors. This is always our season finale topic, because we know there are 10,000 lakes here and at least as many good stories! Who is joining us today? We are welcoming a new Guest Host to be our Minnesota book expert: Wendy Sykes, from the Great River Public Library system! This is our last episode of the season, but never fear: Tuesday we will start dropping quickie book podcast into this spot on a weekly basis!

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full show notes page here! This week we’re discussing narrative nonfiction. We are so glad to welcome back Leah from State Library Services! 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.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. This week we’re especially glad to have your company, since the genre we are discussing is True Crime! Check out our full show notes page here.We have links to all kinds of other resources, to help you to find books for yourself and for your patrons. We also give you links to the books we shared, so you can follow up yourself. And, of course, we have the links to the beverages we enjoyed here! (Beverages are a key part of any book group.) 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.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full show notes here! This week we’re discussing indigenous representation in literature and we are so excited to welcome Hannah Buckland to our show! Hannah is the State Library Program Specialist. 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.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full show notes page here, with links to the books we shared, more info about this genre, and of course - links to the beverages we were enjoying! This week we’re discussing biographies for kids! We’re excited to welcome back Guest Host librarian Kate! Join us for this fun topic, and explore all kind of interesting kid biographies. 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.

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 of 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.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full shownotes page here. We have links to all the books we discussed, to the beverages we enjoyed, and to the other resources you can use to find material about this genre! 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.

Hello and welcome to the 4th season of Reading With Libraries! Thank you so much for being here! We’re so glad you’re able to join our podcast book group. This week we’re talking about books in the Own Voices category. Check out our full show notes page here, complete with links to the books we discussed, more background links, and links to the beverages we enjoyed here. #OwnVoices is a term credited to author Corinne Duyvis, who suggested the hashtag on Twitter in 2015 to "recommend kidlit about diverse characters written by authors from that same diverse group."

Hello and welcome to Reading With Libraries! Thank you so much for being here! We’re so glad you’re able to join our podcast book group. And we’re especially excited this week because we’re discussing a very popular and well-loved topic: Harry Potter! Maybe you listened to our teaser episode back on July 31st and are just as excited as we are to jump into things! Why are we doing this today? Easy! It's Hermione's Birthday!!! (The real hero of the series!) So the format of today’s episode is going to be a little different than usual, but our goal is the same: to chat about books and share information for our library community doing Reader’s Advisory work.  Check out our full shownotes page here, for all the info and our drink recipes! Want to be a full book group member? Join our Patreon! We appreciate your support - and Official Office Dog Lady Grey really appreciates the treats your support can provide!!

Tune in for this quick mini Reading With Libraries episode all about Harry Potter!  This episode will get you excited for our full Harry Potter Reading With Libraries episode coming in September (on Hermione's birthday). We discuss Hogwarts Houses, how we first discovered Harry Potter and favorite side characters.  Join us!

Tune in for this quick mini Reading With Libraries episode all about Harry Potter!  This episode will get you excited for our full Harry Potter Reading With Libraries episode coming in September (on Hermione's birthday). We discuss Hogwarts Houses, how we first discovered Harry Potter and favorite side characters.  Join us!

We're on break!!   But, don't worry - we aren't leaving you!   Right here on this feed we will drop a quickie Book Bite each Tuesday. These are fast looks at a book one of our Guest Hosts has to share with everyone. Occasionally we will also have a special episode you may enjoy, with a little more time and a few more books. (Pssst! For example, if you like Harry Potter, you should probably be prepared for a good episode in July!) Our sister podcast, Reading With Libraries, is also on a little break. (We need time to track down and record all these great guests!) Subscribe to it to get a new episode - with either a book description or a discussion of a whole genre!

Welcome back to Season Five of Linking Our Libraries! In this episode we will talk about an issue every library staffer faces: patron questions or problems with technology, and how to answer them when you have no idea what is going on. You can find our shownotes here, with all our information, links, and books we share. This week we have Guest Host Ariel Kirst, from the Great River Regional Library System to help us get some ideas! Working with technology, and all the various technology tools and devices patrons will bring to your library, is an important part of any library’s service to their community. The main problem here is that you may not have a lot of training (or any!), and may not know how to use these devices or tools yourself. Sorry – we aren’t going to magically give you all the answers. We don’t have them. But we are going to walk through some ideas you can use in your own work to better answer tech questions – even when you have no idea what’s going on! Thanks to Ariel for coming in to work through this topic with us! Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to get all the library skills directly to your favorite app each week. And you can check out our shownotes for each episode to get all the info we discussed, along with the links to more resources. Every episode we have created is on our website: cmle.org. If you want to enjoy our book group podcast, subscribe to Reading With Libraries to get a new book, or a whole new genre, each week. Thank you listening today for joining us! Check back in with us next week for another library competency – we are looking forward to more chatting about library work.  

Welcome back to Season Five of Linking Our Libraries! You can find our full shownotes page here. This week we will be talking about policies and procedures. These are tools that can not only guide your library and help you make decisions, but they can also be so useful in explaining to other people what you are doing and why you are doing it. Good policies and procedures can save you a lot of trouble! This week we have Guest Host Karen Pundsack, Executive Director at Great River Regional Library System to help us get some ideas! Thanks to Karen for coming in to work through this topic with us! Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to get all the library skills directly to your favorite app each week. And you can check out our shownotes for each episode to get all the info we discussed, along with the links to more resources. Every episode we have created is on our website: cmle.org. If you want to enjoy our book group podcast, subscribe to Reading With Libraries.   Thanks for joining us this week! And check back in with us next week for another library competency!

Welcome back to Season Five of Linking Our Libraries! Check out our full shownotes here. This week we will be talking about Social Media in your library, and how to make it work for you. We welcome back returning Guest Host Jessie Storlien, from the Stearns History Museum, to help us get some ideas! Social media is fun! Social media is informative! Social media is a snake pit of danger! Yes, it’s all these things at once. Developing some good social media practices in your library will help to keep you on the more positive side of social media work. So, while it’s good to remember that things you say will be remembered online, and even innocent gaffs can be turned into PR disasters - that’s probably not every day, or possibly not ever for you. Use social media tools as you would anything else that is powerful: carefully, and with plans for keeping everyone safe and happy. These can be so handy for sharing information - you can reach out to where your patrons are to deliver messages, share information, promote programs and materials, and anything else. Your work in a library is to share information; social media tools can be an easy way to do that. This is part of your job, to connect people to your information. And social media can be a useful way to make that happen. Thanks to Jessie for coming in to work through this topic with us! Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to get all the library skills directly to your favorite app each week. And you can check out our shownotes for each episode to get all the info we discussed, along with the links to more resources. Every episode we have created is on our website: cmle.org. If you want to enjoy our book group podcast, subscribe to Reading With Libraries.   Thanks for joining us this week! And check back in with us next week for another library competency!

Welcome back to Season Five of Linking Our Libraries! Check out our full shownotes page here. This week we will be talking about Customer Service in your library, and how to make it work for you. Attentive listeners may be thinking “Hey! Didn’t you guys already do this topic?” Good catch! We did - way back in Season Two, episode 210. We link to it here, and it would be worth your time to go back and listen or read our show notes.  This is such an important topic - the foundation of everything we do in the library really - and it’s also such a hard thing to always do well, that we wanted to cover it again. This week we have Guest Host Kathy Parker, Director of the St John’s/St Ben’s academic libraries, to help us get some ideas! Thanks to Kathy for coming in to work through this topic with us! Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to get all the library skills directly to your favorite app each week. And you can check out our shownotes for each episode to get all the info we discussed, along with the links to more resources. Every episode we have created is on our website: cmle.org. If you want to enjoy our book group podcast, subscribe to Reading With Libraries.   Thanks for joining us this week! And check back in with us next week for another library competency!

Thanks so much for listening with us all season, and for being part of this podcast book group! It has been great to read with you, talk about books, and share our beverages. If you have missed any of our genres, or Guest Hosts, or you just want to enjoy them again – our archive of three seasons of book group is available to you any time.   But we don’t want leave you without book ideas – that would be terrible! So each week we will drop a Book Bite in this feed. These are quickie looks at a book our Guest Hosts are reading, have read, or even ones they loved as a child. We have a wide range of books for you to explore each week. And we have an archive of episodes already shared on our website for you to check out any time.  

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, by Jon Krakauer. Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Welcome, everyone, to our final episode of Season Three of Reading With Libraries! It has been so great to read with you for these fifteen weeks – we just can’t bear for our book fun to end. So while we are on hiatus you will get a Book Bite each week. This is a quickie five-minute sharing of a book by one of our Guests. We have been producing these for a while now, so you can browse our entire archive on our website. You can also check out our other podcast, Linking Our Libraries! Each week we will look at a new skill to use in a library, or other places. Follow us there! As a bonus for all the time we have spent together here, next week we have a special episode on book challenges. We want to help you explore even more great books, and challenges can be good tools to make that happen. This week we are discussing a favorite topic: Minnesota books! We will look at book set in Minnesota, and books by Minnesota authors. This is always our season finale topic, because we know there are 10,000 lakes here and at least as many good stories! Check out our shownotes here! Who is joining us today? We are welcoming back our traditional Minnesota book expert Kate Buechler, from the Great River Public Library system! Thanks for joining us again today!

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is The Vinyl Detective Mysteries - Written in Dead Wax: A Vinyl Detective Mystery 1, by Andrew Cartmel *Note: the author's name is Andrew Cartmel, not Carmichael as recorded. Also, readers should be aware that the second book in the Vinyl Detective series DOES have a murder approximately 40 pages into the story.  Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Asla. Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is The Ring, by Koji Suzuki.   Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is The Confidence Code for Girls, by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman.   Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is Jeeves and the King of Clubs, by Ben Schott.   Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is We Are Okay, by Nina LaCour.   Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is The Housekeeper and the Professor, by by Yoko Ogawa (Author), Stephen Snyder (Translator). (Mary really gushes over this one!)   Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is Trail of Lightning, by Rebecca Roanhorse.   Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is Infandous, by Elana K. Arnold.   Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our book group podcast: Reading With Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

It's award season!! And we love books; there are so many to discuss!! We share book suggestions and ideas every single week on our podcasts, but we wanted to take some time to recognize a few that are special to us. The CMLE team of Angie, Lydia, and Mary all contributed to this episode.  Get all the categories and books on our shownotes page! You have heard all of us talking about books across all of our podcasts, and we have some definite favorites. This year we are adapting the 30 book challenge from Overdrive’s really good book podcast: Professional Book Nerds. They have suggestions you can use to read 30 different books, to build your own reading interests. We have a link to their material above, and you should check out their podcast and their website! Today we are going to use those ideas as the foundation for our award show. You should find some good suggestions for your own reading, and definitely take their challenge to find 30 of your own books! Every single book we share here today is on our shownotes page with titles, authors, and Amazon links. So do not worry about taking notes - we have it all available for you!

It's award season!! And we love books; there are so many to discuss!! We share book suggestions and ideas every single week on our podcasts, but we wanted to take some time to recognize a few that are special to us. The CMLE team of Angie, Lydia, and Mary all contributed to this episode.  Get all the categories and books on our shownotes page! You have heard all of us talking about books across all of our podcasts, and we have some definite favorites. This year we are adapting the 30 book challenge from Overdrive’s really good book podcast: Professional Book Nerds. They have suggestions you can use to read 30 different books, to build your own reading interests. We have a link to their material above, and you should check out their podcast and their website! Today we are going to use those ideas as the foundation for our award show. You should find some good suggestions for your own reading, and definitely take their challenge to find 30 of your own books! Every single book we share here today is on our shownotes page with titles, authors, and Amazon links. So do not worry about taking notes - we have it all available for you!

Stay right here to start Season Three of Reading With Libraries! The first episode drops Thurs, Jan. 3. We are so happy to be back exploring new genres, drinking new beverages, and chatting about books with all new Guest Hosts each week. Join us!! You can keep getting a weekly Book Bite, for a quick look at a book. Subscribe to our library skills podcast: Linking Our Libraries by putting this RSS feed into your favorite podcast app: http://linkingourlibraries.libsyn.com/rss Get every single Book Bite, and be the first to get Season Five, where we will be using pop culture to explore new library skills. You won't want to miss it!   And if you want to look at all of our Book Bites (so many of them already!), you can always browse our Book Bites library by clicking onto our website right here.   Thanks for listening!

Whew! In Season Four, we have all worked together to work through fifteen of the most valuable competencies you need to be a good leader in your organization. As we said all along: it doesn't matter what your title is, you can lead from any position. So these skills are for EVERYONE! Refer back to our shownotes for any info you missed - and of course for links to the books we shared! We are taking a break here, and starting up our companion podcast: Reading With Libraries. Season Three starts Thursday Jan. 3. You can subscribe at any podcast app you are already using (like this one!). Each week we explore a new genre, drink new beverages, and chat with new Guest Hosts about the books they like. We have lots of Readers Advisory material on the website, to help you in guiding people to the books they may love. But we don't want your feed here to be lonely, so we will be dropping a quick Book Bite into it each week. This is a five minute look, by a Guest Host, at a book (or two) they have enjoyed and want to share with you. There are all kinds of genres, all kinds of suggestions - everything you need to find books for yourself, or to share with patrons and friends. And what's happening with Linking Our Libraries?? We have so many fun plans!! Season Five will be back, exploring all kinds of library skill using pop culture. It will be fast, fun, and filled with great ideas for you and your library! We definitely want you to join us there!

Welcome back to Linking Our Libraries! This is our Season Four finale! It’s been so good to work with you all this season, and talk about building skills. Check out our full shownotes page for all the information, and the info on the books we read (with links to Amazon!). Be sure to subscribe to our book group podcast, Reading With Libraries, which will start dropping new episodes and new genres Jan 3. If you are subscribed to this podcast, Linking Our Libraries, we will be dropping Book Bites each week for you – three to five minutes talking about a book our guests want to share. You won’t want to miss it! Do you want to talk with us about leadership skills? Do you need some training organized for your organization? We are here for you! Check out our website: cmle.org and let’s get this started!   We have talked about a lot of important skills this season – and some different ways to be a leader, not just as a n idea but in reality. Problems solving is definitely one of the keys to leadership success. And fortunately, you will have a LOT of practice in it! Problems, disasters, things going wrong – all of that will happen in your library daily, weekly, the entire rest of your career. So it’s better to just get in there now and figure out how to be good at solving problems. It will make the rest of your career easier, and it will help to inspire other people to work with you. You can probably think of people who panic in a crisis, or have no idea how to handle even the smallest problem that occurs – completely falling apart at the smallest problem. This is not leadership behavior, though we all know people in leadership roles who do this – but we want you to be better than that!