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Libraries: Not Just Books!📚

This list was curated by Virginia Marshall, the podcast associate at Brooklyn Public Library.She writes: The overlap between podcast listeners and library lovers is pretty high, and there are some really great book podcasts produced by public libraries. But libraries are more than just books: they’re our last truly free and democratic institutions, and some pretty amazing things are happening at them. These podcast episodes feature amazing things that libraries do — collect the stories of the community, preserve podcasts from digital decay, speak truth to power, and even help people solve murders!

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Created April 14, 2022

Updated April 14, 2022

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  1. Borrowed

    Our Garbage, Ourselves

    Dec 10th, 201922m 59s
    At the edge of Brooklyn, there’s a beach covered with glass bottles, nylon stockings, rusting kitchen appliances, and decaying batteries. The trash didn’t float here, though. It’s eroding from a poorly-covered landfill. We start this episode a
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  2. The Borough We Became: Queens Residents On Life During COVID-19

    Episode 1: Adjustment

    Aug 4th, 202017m 41s
    The  Queens Memory Project brings you the premiere of season two of the  Queens Memory Podcast.  This season we have collected documented experiences of Queens residents during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Episode one features testimonies of two res
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  3. The Kitchen Sisters Present

    108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System

    Jan 22nd, 201922m 20s
    Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the world, was a known racist and serial sexual harasser. Forced out of the American Library Association, which he co-founded, his
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  4. Anything But Silent

    Uncovering mysteries and secrets

    1Mar 17th, 202037m 3s
    Hear how a Librarian solved a 33 year cold case, why the British Library is currently researching some mysterious toilet paper and how a library in Manchester is helping it's patrons uncover the secrets of their own past.
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