This week we are looking at another fun area of work in libraries: citizen science! You could bring in citizen science programs, use it to connect your materials to STEM work in different classes in your school, and of course you can just enjoy some science books! We have a special Guest Host this week: Caroline Nickerson. She is the Senior Program Director at SciStarter.  You can check out our full show notes here, with links to all the resources we share, the beverages we enjoy, and the books we discuss!

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Episode 708 Citizen Science

Today we’re leaving our familiar, everyday world and visiting faraway lands filled with adventure and magic. That’s right, we’re chatting about fantasy books, specifically fantasy reads for kids and young adults.  Check out our full show notes page here, with links to the beverages we are enjoying, the resources we share, and the books we discuss! And we are THRILLED to welcome another new voice to our bookgroup: Cassie Watt! Cassie owns and manages Mud Puddle Toys, where she uses her library degree to provide some great books and other fun things to her community.

Episode 707 Kid's and YA Fantasy

This week we are sharing a special pop culture episode with you! We are looking at the movie No Time To Die - the latest James Bond movie. IMDB describes the plot: “James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.” Daniel Craig is back in his fifth, and maybe final, turn at being James Bond. And our villain this time is the wonderful Rami Malek. (You may remember him from the tv series Mr. Robot, or the movie Bohemian Rhapsody.)   We have more to discuss, so let’s settle in and get to the fun part: the book discussion! This week we are taking a quick look at some books about spies, to celebrate this new movie. Kick back with a beverage you will enjoy, and let’s share some books you might enjoy. We always enjoy hosting these book groups with you, and want you to have everything you need for the best experience!   And of course, if you are in a library, you can add these books to your collection, or use our suggestions as a place to start in setting up a display for your community members! Do you want to talk about some materials or programming ideas? Check out our Discord channel, talk to us on Twitter or Facebook, or just send us an email! We are here to share ideas across libraries.

Episode 706: No Time to Die

Welcome to Linking Our Libraries! We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, a multitype library system where we support libraries of all types. And today we have two special guests with us: Ann Walker Smalley, who is the director of the Metronet multitype system; and Ann Hokanson, the director of the Traverse des Sioux library system.  We are sharing this special episode to help promote the latest annual Minnesota Library Association conference! It’s coming up Wednesday, Oct. 6 through Friday, Oct. 8. And of course we are still having a global pandemic, so this conference will be virtual. We will preview a few of the interesting events coming up, so you will be ready for all the different activities. And of course, we want to take special notice of probably the most exciting session at this conference: the Multitype Library systems are presenting a session to talk about the very cool work we are all doing together and individually!  Our session will be Friday, Oct 8 at 10:00am. It is called Mapping Minnesota's Multitypes.  Let’s give you a quick preview of this session.

Podcast Bonus: Preview of Minnesota Library Association Conference

At CMLE we’ve absolutely talked about romance books before. Check out our past episodes Winter Romance, Regency Historical Romance, and of course our FIRST EVER episode of this podcast was a delightful discussion of romance books. Clearly, we love talking about love! And it’s even better when there’s humor involved. Any genre of book can include romantic elements, but today we’re talking about books where romance and humor take center stage: romantic comedies! You can read our full show notes here, to get links to the beverages we enjoy, the resources we discuss, and the books we suggest today. And we are overjoyed to welcome back CMLE Podcast Correspondent Ariel Kirst! Thanks for joining us again! 

Episode 705 Romantic Comedies

This week we are going to look at some very unique, very personal books: family histories. If you have done any genealogy work, or visited your local history center, you have probably had the opportunity to work with them. We are bringing in an expert to talk about this with us today: Jessie Storlien from the Stearns County Historical Society! Jessie is not only one of our CMLE members, she also serves on our Board of Trustees and has volunteered her time on several of our member projects. Thanks for joining us today! You can check out our full show notes here, with links to all the resources we share and the beverages we are enjoying!

Episode 704 Family Histories

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!

Episode 703: Business Psych

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! 

Episode 702: Historical Nonfiction Picture Books

Thank you for joining us on the SEVENTH SEASON of our Reader’s Advisory podcast! This is our season opener, and we are going to have a wide variety of new genres and topics to share with you this season. We are so glad you’re here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too! 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 genre! Check out our full show notes page, with links to resources and books we share today! We are wrapping up summer, and starting off a new semester. But it’s always the right time to have some fun with books - and Florida books are always fun! Whether they are zany, scary, or just generally weird, Florida books are a good genre to enjoy when you need to brighten up your day. This week we have a new Guest Host, here to enjoy book group discussion with us: Cassandra, from the St Cloud Technical and Community College library. In addition to being a reader, Cassandra has lived in Florida and can speak to some of the lovely and exciting aspects of the state. Thanks for joining us today!  

Episode 701: Fun Florida Books

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! Today our prompt is inspired by Le Sueur County! Le sueur means "sweat" so we want you to read a book about exercise or good health. 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!

Browsing Books: LaSeur County

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! Today our prompt is inspired by Jackson County! This county contains Heron Lake. So we want you to read a book about birds. 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!

Browsing Books: Jackson County

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! Today our prompt is inspired by Chisago County! This county is located northeast of Minneapolis, on the border with Wisconsin. And Chisago County is part of CMLE, hooray! This county has an archeological dig site, which includes finds such as mussel shells accumulated from 600 to 1499 CE; read a book with sea shells. 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!

Browsing Books: Chisago County

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! Today our prompt is inspired by Carver County! This county is located to the west of Minneapolis. It’s named after Jonathan Carver (1710–1790), early explorer and cartographer of the Mississippi river; read a book with a map on the cover or in the plot. 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!

Browsing Books: Carver County

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we look at Cottonwood county. The Jeffers Petroglyphs, near Jeffers, contain pre-European Native American rock carvings; to celebrate that, we want you to read a book with any type of painting. 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!

Browsing Books: Cottonwood County

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we look at Kandiyohi county. Earl B. Olson, founder of Jennie O Turkey, was born here, and raised his daughter Jennifer here. This week we want to prompt you to  read a book about a daughter. 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!

Browsing Books: Kandiyohi County

We are a book group podcast, looking at a new genre each week. We enjoy a beverage that matches the theme of the episode, we talk about some books we like with our Guest Hosts, and we share resources for finding more books. We work in a library system, and many of our guests work in libraries - so we have a lot of fun books to share! Grab a beverage, and let's start talking about books!

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