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State Fair Library Ambassadors Needed!
2016 Read & Ride Day
MN State Fair
Wed, Aug 31
Available Shifts
Shift 3: 12:00pm-3:00pm
Shift 4: 2:30pm-5:30pm
Read and Ride Day is the Minnesota State Fair discount day for library users. Anyone showing a library card at the ticket booth will receive a discount. As part of the celebration there will be a Read & Ride library event in Carousel Park (in front of the Grand Stand) from 9:00am-5:00pm with free family activities. The event has been scaled back a bit for 2016, so not as many Library Ambassadors are needed, so be sure to register early. We want everyone to make their next stop the library after the Fair, we can't accomplish that goal without our wonderful Library Ambassadors.
Ambassador Activities
A variety of activities are planned for the day and your ambassador duties may include:
- Running games
- Carding fairgoers
- Assisting crafters
- ROCKING OUT on the Rock 'n' Read Bus
- Enjoying the Fair some more!!
Ambassador Benefits
You'll have to supply your own mini-donuts, but the other bennies
 are pretty awesome, though inedible:
Please Note: When serving as a Library Ambassador you are representing your library system. Therefore, MELSA understands you are on work time and have obtained permission to participate from your supervisor.
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Share Your Library & Staff News
- Peter Pearson, President of St. Paul Friends, plans to retire on December 31, 2016. He will have been at The Friends for 25 years. The Friends will be conducting a national search for the next President.
- Congratulations to the new ITEM Co-Presidents-Elect, Sara Swenson and Lisa Gearman, & to Robin Weber who has been re-elected as Treasurer.
Image via Pixabay
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Get Smart
CE, Events, Resources, Opportunities
- Quatrefoil Library is celebrating 30 years by guest-curating an exhibit at the Hennepin History Museum featuring some the collection's gems. Thorough Aug 28 at Hennepin History Museum, 2303 3rd Ave. S., Minneapolis 55404.
- iPadPaloozaMN, Aug 4. This one day learning festival celebrates how iPads & other mobile devices continue to impact education. Sponsored by TIES.
- Learn about MDE's plans for ESSA at an open meeting Wed, Jul 20. 9-11 am at MDE, Conference Center B, Rooms 15 & 16, 1500 Highway 36 West, Roseville.
- The Dakota Homelands Curriculum Project is looking for 6th grade social studies teachers to pilot the curriculum for the 2016-17 school year & fall of 2018. Training for the fall 2016 cohort will be in late August or early September. Anyone interested in this project, should email Barbara Hackett Cox for an official application form. behrox24@gmail.com
- South Dakota Library Association is hosting Branch Out in Sioux Falls this year on Aug 11. More information can be found here.
- The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, as the Minnesota Center for the Book, announces "Great Lakes Reads," a collaborative project of the Great Lakes State Centers for the Book: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, with participation by the Ontario Book Publishers Organization. Read more & find a list of the books here.
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Add your library staff training events; email details to calendar@mnlibs.info
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Things We've Heard, Seen, or Read
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St. Paul, Minnesota 55104
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Program at Sun Ray Library sheds some light on honeybees
& Exhibition in Orlando.
Seattle Times, Jul 2.