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Libraries: Not Just Books!📚

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Feb 12th, 2025
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 f...

Episodes

    December 10, 2019

    ArtsBooksSociety
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    20:50s

    This podcast, produced and co-written by EarBuds curator Virginia Marshall for Brooklyn Public Library, brings you stories that start at the library and take you somewhere new. This episode starts at Dead Horse Bay, where the show's creators ex

    August 4, 2020

    EducationHigher Education
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    17:41s

    The Queens Memory Project (by the Queens Public Library) has been collecting oral histories from residents for the past decade. When their borough became an epicenter at the start the COVID-19 pandemic, the team at Queens Memory jumped into gea

    January 22, 2019

    SocietyCulture
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    22:20s

    Hosts Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson have been collaborating on radio stories since the 1980s, and to this day, they produce some of the best audio in the business. This episode from "The Keepers" series tells the story of how Dewey Decimal Class

    March 17, 2020

    ArtsBooks
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    37:03s

    This delightful podcast comes from the British Library and certainly makes a strong case for libraries as places of discovery and action or, as the library's tagline goes: “Libraries are alive, and they’re anything but silent.” In this episode,