A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST

Singer/Songwriter Dan Cafferty - Songwriters In the Round

Dan Cafferty is a multifaceted artist with several unique projects spanning the genres of rock, R&B, soul, and funk. He'll be leading an upcoming SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND event, here at the Ferndale Library on Sunday, February 18, at 2pm, featuring Steve Taylor, Emily Rose, and Michelle Held. 

Find more information on Dan Cafferty here: https://www.reverbnation.com/dancafferty 

And sample some music by Dan, here: https://www.reverbnation.com/dancafferty/videos 

The Untended Garden by Mara Magyarosi-Laytner

Join us on February 8th for an Opening Reception to Mara Magyarosi-Laytner's exhibition and book launch: The Untended Garden. 

The Untended Garden is a visual reflection structured in three acts – the expectations of women as informed by society and culture, the transformation that women reach as they break through during their coming of age, and the resolution of self that comes from the acceptance of flaws and the reality of aging. By combining still life and self-portrait photographs with experimental photographic alcohol transfer methods, this project explores multiple facets of the cyclical nature of life in a garden as a metaphor to reflect on the experience of women.  

https://www.maramagyarosilaytner.com/book 

All About Outreach

The staff of the Ferndale Library can often be found...OUTSIDE OF THE LIBRARY. Learn about all of the valuable community partnerships we've forged over the years and listen to exclusive interviews with local organizations and businesses like Drifter Coffee, the Ferndale Project, Ferndale Public Schools, and Affirmations Community Center. 

 

What's All This Then? Catching Up on Intellectual Freedoms (Again)

This week, Jeff and Mary Grahame are looking back at their recent presentation at the Michigan Library Association's annual conference--a session on HOW we talk about Intellectual Freedoms with our library patrons. At that conference, our podcast hosts were greeted by Matthew Lawrence, who currently works at the Herrick District Library. Lawrence was the interim director of the Patmos Library in 2022, right in the thick of that library, weathering a flurry of book challenges that eventually resulted in the library being defunded. (Its millage was recently renewed in November of 2023). Suffice to say, we had a lot to talk about! 

Nonfiction Can Be Fun!

Our staff provides reading recommendations from our non-fiction sections! We have three librarians on this panel discussion providing their favorites among the many recently added titles, covering the arts, the sciences, the histories, and everything in between! 

 

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Alice Neal: People Come First - MetPublications

The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas by Maria Garcia Esperon

You Are History: From the Alarm Clock to the Toilet, the Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day by Greg Jenner

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought this Through? by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

On Photographing Peoples and Communities by Dawoud Bey

A First Guide to Cats / Dogs by Dr. John Bradshaw

How Music Works by David Byrne

Detroit in 50 Maps by Alex B. Hill

Renegades: San Francisco in the 1990s by Chloe Sherman 

A Rome of One's Own by Emma Southon

More Tabletop RPG Games!

Join our staff on a (tabletop) adventure, doing a quick play-through of a Role-Playing Game that's available here in our library. We have quite a few options, actually, which we'll list off at the end of this episode. Listen to find out whether or not our three competing panelists can work together to forge intergalactic peace and solve a cosmic coffee embargo, when they play "Fate!"