A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST

A Little Too Quiet: Season Two - Continue, Adapt, Evolve

This is a podcast produced in-house by the staff of the Ferndale Library. We've been closed for the last four months so that staff and patrons could safely shelter at home and slow the spread of coronavirus. But we are BACK! And we have so much to talk about: Curbside Pickup services, Online Library Card apps, Kanopy streaming services, Readers' Advisory, Virtual Programs, and so much more. 

The library's Assistant Director Darlene Hellenberg, and Circulation Supervisor Kelly Bennett join host Jeff Milo to discuss everything they've been reading, watching, and listening to, during the quarantine. 

Season 2 Preview: Picking The Story Back Up

This is A Little Too Quiet, the Ferndale Library Podcast. This is a podcast produced in-house by staff inside the Ferndale Library. And from episode 1 onward, we wanted to bring you exclusive content, like author interviews, insights into library resources and services, and the history of our library. Along with that, just the nuanced narrative of how this library, as an archetype for all libraries, is evolving and adapting the ways in which it serves its community.

But circumstances have caused us to have a considerable pause between seasons. You know those circumstances as well as us - the pandemic led to a necessary shutdown that required as many of us as possible to shelter at home and stop the spread of the coronavirus. Our library's doors were closed, but we remained open to a few extents--chief among them being, that we were still doing everything we could to keep our community connected to information, to helpful resources, to enriching materials, and to virtual programs and video events-- Of course we could not interact with our patrons without the assistance of a laptop or smartphone through video conferencing software, and of course we couldn't hand our patrons print books or physical materials in person, but we could continue to provide access to 10s of thousands of titles that are collected as digital resources through apps like hoopla, libby, rbdigital and kanopy--along with countless databases and video tutorial services.
we missed our patrons. we missed our community. we missed making podcasts.

We're once again aspiring to create compelling content for the episodes featured on this show, as well as capturing exclusive and engaging conversations about the role that librarians and library staff can serve to their community. We'll be exploring a mini-series on Information Literacy, particularly news literacy--talking to professors, journalists and librarians about the impacts of disinformation and the pitfalls of misinformation on the internet. What can we do to be more discerning news consumers as individuals? We'll talk about that.

We'll also be talking to more local authors, more local artists, as well as more behind the scenes, chats with librarians detailing their experiences and their ideas for engaging programming.

For four months, having been closed for the sake of safety, libraries everywhere were quiet....quieter than they've been in at least two decades. This podcast's name continues to acknowledge the fact that a library is no longer a place where you feel apprehensive to talk. A library is a place where you can get peace of mind, where you can tap into a sense of feeling part of a community, and where you can find reliable information, diverse entertainment and culture, and so much more.

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We'll be picking the story back up where we left off, soon, with Season 2!

Inform, Enrich, Entertain, Empower

Here's an episode where we say "thank you for listening" at least three times, maybe four..., but we also share a lot of our heartfelt thoughts on why we started this podcast. 

As the library remains closed until further notice, we're hoping to bring you a couple more podcast exclusives in April. Keep following our social media feeds for more information. You can also reach us at: info@ferndalepubliclibrary.org 

A Little Too Quiet: Season One Finale

That's a wrap on season one of A Little Too Quiet. We're grateful to everyone who downloaded, streamed, or shared episodes of our new podcast. We're also grateful to the Friends of the Ferndale Library for making this podcast a reality. 

The library remains closed until further notice, but since we had already produced this episode in-advance, we wanted to share it with you.

We hope you are taking advantage of our online resources and listening to some audiobooks that you could download with your library card! If you need MORE things to listen to in the weeks ahead--well, then this podcast is here for you, also! 

In this episode, Kelly and Jeff look back on some of their favorite memories that occurred in this library over the last 10 years, from the eclipse of 2017, to party-starting marching bands, to globally renowned authors flying in from Ireland!

Images from 2011, when author John Connolly visited Ferndale

Libraries aren’t as quiet as they used to be. We're a podcast for library lovers and the library curious. Stay tuned for more book chatter with librarians, community perspectives and author interviews.

A Little Too Quiet: Joe Grimm & The Faygo Book

The library remains closed until further notice as we follow safety measures for containing the spread of coronavirus. We were sad to cancel our event with author Joe Grimm, but we had already recorded this interview with the man behind the Faygo Book, so we still wanted to share that via our podcast! 

We had a great chat with Joe Grimm, author of The Faygo Book" the social history of a company that has forged a bond with a city and its residents for more than a century...The story of a pop, a people, and a place! Joe Grimm previously wrote the book Coney Detroit with Katherine Yung (Wayne State University Press, 2012). A lifelong Detroit-area resident and twenty-five-year veteran of the Detroit Free Press, Grimm is a Michigan State University journalism professor. His favorite Faygo flavor is Rock & Rye.

A Little Too Quiet: Online Resources

The Ferndale Library has closed until further notice. But that doesn't mean you can't keep reading! You could try eBooks or audiobooks. In fact, if you listen to this episode, we'll tell you about ALL of our ONLINE RESOURCES! If you are not a Ferndale Library cardholder, you can ask YOUR library about what they might be offering online, in the meantime. 

Ferndale cardholders can start accessing these online resources here: 
http://ferndalepubliclibrary.org/online-resources 

If you have any questions, please email:

info@ferndalepubliclibrary.org

And you can leave us a voicemail at:
248-546-2504