MELSA News
- Minnesota Book Award Winners and Finalists Take Center Stage at Local Libraries
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Minnesota Book Award Winners and finalists come to your local library.
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- Homework Rescue
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Homework Rescue is one-to-one homework help from online tutors for grades 3–12.
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- Club Book
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Club Book brings best-selling and award-winning national and regional authors to library communities throughout the seven-county metropolitan region. All events are free and open to the public.
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- Sample Night Live...Art in a Trial Size
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Preview a dozen performing arts events the first Wednesday of every month. Now MELSA library cardholders can receive a FREE ticket!
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- Fox 9's Cheap Chick checks out Museum Adventure Pass
In celebration of May Museum Month, Fox 9's Cheap Chick checks out Museum Adventure Pass. Be sure that you too take advantage of the FINAL YEAR of this great opportunity to see local museums for FREE!
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- KARE 11 Sunrise and the American Swedish Institute help kick off May Museum Month
KARE 11 Sunrise and the American Swedish Institute help kick off May Museum Month with MELSA's Museum Adventure Pass drawing. This is your chance to enter and win a year long family membership to one of 17 fabulous local museums!
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- Dr. David Walsh: Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids Event Slides
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Thank you for attending this event and helping make it such a success!
Dr. Walsh has given MELSA the slides from his excellent presentation: Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids.
Be sure to mark your calendar for the Dr. Walsh Club Book event in October!
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- Legacy Amendment
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MELSA and its member libraries present an array of arts, cultural, literary, and Minnesota history programs in collaboration with arts and cultural organizations, independent artists, historical societies, and community organizations. Programs are funded in part with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008 which dedicated funding to preserve Minnesota's arts and cultural heritage.
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- Volunteer at Your Local Library!
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Thousands of Twin Cities residents donate their time and talents at the metro public libraries. Learn more about volunteer opportunities available at a library near you!
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- Kare 11: Museum Adventure Pass
View Kare 11's segment on the Museum Adventure Pass program. MELSA staff is joined by Hennepin History Center's executive director, Jada Hansen.
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- MPR: "Changing technology and the future of libraries"
Listen to Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning discussion on the future of libraries and the impact of technology on library services. Guests include Kit Hadley, director of Saint Paul Public Library, and Lois Langer Thompson, director of Hennepin County Library.
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- Star Tribune: "The humble library, a valuable resource"
The Star Tribune says libraries are a "valuable resource." Databases in libraries allow job seekers and small business owners access to research and information for free.
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- How Libraries Stack Up
Did you know that Americans make 1.4 billion visits to public libraries each year? That's more often than visits to movie theaters or to professional sports events. Check out some of the other interesting numbers on libraries in the US (compiled by the OCLC).
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