Libraries aren’t as quiet as they used to be. A podcast for library lovers and the library curious. Book chatter with librarians, community perspectives and author interviews
Episodes
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Annie Spence is a Detroit-based author AND LIBRARIAN. Her first book, "Dear Fahrenheit 451," was published in 2017 (Macmillan/Flatiron), and it features love letters & break-up notes to books that Spence established "intense relationships" with over the years. She has spent more than a decade working as a librarian in public libraries in the midwest. So we talked about several things, like what it was like to be a librarian during quarantine, what she's working on lately (a novel?), her all-time favorite books, and also why it is that, when compared to other art forms, we connect with books and reading in such a deep and nuanced way. Sometimes those connections are so intense as to warrant legitimate love letters.
https://www.anniespence.com/about
Excerpt: https://us.macmillan.com/excerpt?isbn=9781250106490
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Black and Brown Theatre was founded in the summer of 2016 to address the inequity of casting in the professional Michigan theatre scene and create more opportunities for theatre artists of color. On Saturday, August 1st, at 2pm, B&B Theatre will be giving a Virtual Performance of their adaptation of Beauty & the Beast ("Beast of the Town") for our younger patrons & kids of all ages.
We are chatting with co-founder (actor/producer/director/playwright) Emilio Rodriguez about the origins of the Black and Brown Theatre, as well as some of the events they've created in their 4-year history, including the "Our Voices" program for students. Rodriguez followed up with us and shared this video, below, featuring a clip from this program where students get to direct grown-up actors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgP6uGjr9E8
Friday Jul 10, 2020
Friday Jul 10, 2020
The first in a new mini-series featuring conversations with librarians, journalists, professors, and teachers: We'll be discussing important issues around Information Literacy--the ability to evaluate the variety of information and media that we all encounter on a daily basis, through social media or online news outlets.
Dr. Pradeep Sopory (Wayne State University) conducts research on health and risk communication. He also investigates the effects of messages in the media and how they can be designed to influence attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
Show notes:
Coronavirus Facts Alliance:
https://www.poynter.org/coronavirusfactsalliance/
Infodemic.blog
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
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.
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
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.
This is A Little Too Quiet. Please rate, review, or subscribe to us and tell a friend.
We'll be picking the story back up where we left off, soon, with Season 2!
Sunday Mar 22, 2020
Sunday Mar 22, 2020
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