Episode 706 Reopening Public Libraries

Welcome back to Season Seven of Linking Our Libraries! You can check out our full show notes page here. We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. Our members are libraries of all sorts: public, schools, academics, special libraries, archives, and history centers. Join us in working thorough skills library staffers can use to be more successful in their work! This week we are talking about some of the challenges in planning to reopen a public library during a global pandemic.  Our Guest Host this week is Ariel Kurst, from the Great River Regional Library System.  Today we are going to talk about the reopening plans at Ariel’s library, and help you give some ideas for reopening your library building.  We have put together a bonus podcast with information about the state plan here in Minnesota for reopening schools libraries.  You can listen to it in our feed if you are subscribed to this podcast, or stream it on our website. Then walk through the official guidance with us. 

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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!