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Library workers often risk their livelihoods when they speak out against censorship, spurring community members to pick up the fight for intellectu...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
Maia Kobabe's debut memoir, Gender Queer, was the most frequently banned book in 2021 and 2022. We talked with Maia about what it's like to be on t...
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 17:55
Banning of so-called “classics” grabs public attention, but books like To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 don't need your defense. It's the more recent...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 19:25
Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 14:21
Burnout from work is something a lot of us are thinking about right now. It's been on the minds of librarians, too. We talk to a group of library w...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 25:09
- Purchases: 1
Andrew Carnegie has a classic rags-to-riches story: an immigrant turned steel magnate who financed the construction of over 2,500 public library bu...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 31:06
- Purchases: 1
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
- Purchases: 1
Judge Olly Neal tells his daughter how discovering African American author Frank Yerby's books in his school library turned him around academically.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
The story behind the story of Three Dog Bakery, and how a dog with special needs brought all the elements together.
- Added: Aug 26, 2019
- Length: 02:00
Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 20:01
- Purchases: 1
Sometimes, in the wake of natural disasters, the library becomes an information center, a shelter and a community space. We travel to Coney Island,...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 22:18
- Purchases: 1
Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we liste...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 21:11
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” So goes the quote from librarian Jo Godwin. From Dr. Seuss to kosher books to ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 24:17
A racial justice book group confronts the reality of racism on Cape Cod.
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 04:32
On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin fights for the arts with a love struck administrator in Kathy Cooperman’s The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield.
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUPR low power FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WTJU
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 4
Kids read to shelter dogs.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 02:30
This week we explore the enneagram. It is becoming a big deal. What is this enneagram and why are counselors and spiritual directors finding it so ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Karen Turman, Assistant Professor of French at Winona State University, compares Prince to a 19th Century French Dandy.
- Added: Oct 04, 2017
- Length: 50:38
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1
Alaska's own, Maeva Ordaz, on winning the 2015 Poetry Out Loud national title;
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 06:59
The first episode of Season 2 of Character Development delves into the topic of poetry and its relationship with some of our OWRC tutors. Tutors Ja...
- Added: Apr 03, 2016
- Length: 30:08
The focus in this week’s episode is creativity—specifically, our team wanted to interview OWRC tutors and generate some novel discussions about the...
- Added: Feb 28, 2016
- Length: 25:30
Boneshaker Books is a collectively run, all-volunteer, progressive bookstore in the Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis. It has a year round. free b...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
Making It Work Season 1-Episode 8 with Megan Gebhart, author of 52 Cups
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 24:26
Andrie Morris talks to playwright and Shakespeare expert, Jennie Buckman and Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director of Tara Arts about working with Shak...
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 16:14
