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 Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Singer Kate Hinote is a Detroit-based artist with an incredible voice; she's been performing and recording music for more than a decade, having broken out on the scene in the mid-2000s with the shoegaze duo Ether Aura. Over the last decade, audiences have come to know her as the frontperson for the folk-noir ensemble the Blueflowers, but lately, she formed the Kate Hinote Trio, featuring her longtime Blueflowers bandmate, David Johnson, on guitar and Matthew Parmenter (Discipline and Algebra Mothers) on violin. This trio was initially set to be part of the library's Summer Concert Series, but since we had to sadly cancel that date, we decided to link up through this podcast so that Hinote could share some insights into how to overcome stage-fright, as well as reveal a bit more about what to expect in the year ahead from the Kate Hinote trio.
https://www.facebook.com/katehinotemusic/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O10_pEQkSH0
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Podcast Host Jeff Milo never thought he could be good at gardening--UNTIL he met Ross Sandelius..., one of the Admins of the Ferndale and Pleasant Ridge Area Gardeners on Facebook social group! This is a group for gardeners in and around Ferndale and Pleasant Ridge Michigan, although all are welcome. New gardeners, casual gardeners, professional and intensive gardeners, ALL are encouraged to interact, share their pictures, tips, and ask and answer gardening questions of each other.
Sandelius is an avid gardener with plenty of insights to share on this podcast! He led three educational presentations on gardening over the summer months of 2019--hosted at the Ferndale Library. If you have a question about gardening, then consider posting to the group--as your host can assure you, they are supremely helpful.
A glimpse into Sandelius' garden: Japanese painted fern.
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tekedra Lofton is a librarian. Ophelia Crane is an author. They are synonymous; one in the same. Lofton is currently the Community Engagement Librarian in Taylor, MI, but she is a former employee of the Ferndale Library. On this episode, we're talking about the importance of community engagement, as well as the ideas of literary genres, and why her books, written as Ophelia Crane, might not fit into any category.
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Today, we're chatting with one of our neighbors! Pj Jacokes is an actor/writer/director & co-founder of GO! Comedy Improv Theater! We talk about how to be funny on the fly, how to sustain a small business for 12+ years, what it's like being an improv artist in a pandemic, and also, we talk about GO!'s long-running Detroit Improv Festival...., which...., sadly, is canceled this year. But, if you want to find out more, click here: https://www.gocomedy.net/
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Jo Angela Oehrli is the Learning Librarian, and Children's Literature Librarian, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2017, she received an award from the American Library Association for her research and work on Information Literacy. This is the third installment of our ongoing series on the importance of our individual ability to assess the information we're encountering through various mediums on a daily basis.
Discussed in this episode:
Information on Reading Laterally.
2016 Stanford History Education Group Study
and:
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Ferraro is a macro photographer and a conservation photographer; his images
tell the story of a very tiny world inhabited by important organisms that all
have roles to play in creating harmony for our ecosystem. Random patches
of nature in urban environments become sources of new insects that Ferraro
can observe, track, and take photos of on their own terms, never harming
them or taking them out of their environment.
displayed here in the library. That is, before the shutdown. So, we talk
about our high hopes for finally getting to coordinate the art show here
in the library in the very near future, as well as his passion for nature and
science. We also talk about how he manages to capture amazingly
close-up images of the smallest creatures on the planet.