Browsing Books: Benton 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! You can find our full show notes page here. This week we admire Benton County. This is one of the counties in CMLE! All of the libraries in this county are members, and it’s great to have them as part of the CMLE family. This county was named after Thomas Hart Benton (1782–1858), former United States Senator from Missouri (1821-1851). We suggest that you read a book with a person from Missouri, or - in honor of their state slogan - a book where you are shown something.

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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!