Browsing Books: Banning State Park

This season we are suggesting books you might enjoy for our Goodreads group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks.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 podcast Reading With Libraries, episode 405: Natural Disasters.

Om Podcasten

Libraries are amazing places! The work library people do is so wide-ranging, it can be hard to keep up on the latest news. We are here to help. Each episode, we focus on one area of library work, discuss library news stories, recommend some books, and share a Spotlight Library that is doing some interesting work. If your image of libraries is dominated by crabby old women who shush you, or places where they scowl when you take books home - you are in for a big surprise. Libraries are the jewels of their communities, and doing all sorts of amazing things every day! Books are the backbone of any library, and there is so much more to do and to use. Service to every member of their community means searching out and connecting with the needs of a lot of different groups. No matter what your interests, there is a library out there for you! Listen to us talk about some of the great things happening in libraries today!