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...

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Episode	Description	Date Aired	Categories	Hosts	Episode Guests	Length	Curator's Notes
Borrowed & Returned Our Garbage, Ourselves	" At the edge of Brooklyn, there’s a beach covered with glass bottles, nylon st...	December 10, 2019	Arts Books Society Culture	Krissa Corbett Cavouras Adwoa Adusei	--	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

The Borough We Became: Queens Residents On Life During COVID-19 Episode 1: Adjustment	"The Queens Memory Project brings you the premiere of season two of the Queen...	August 4, 2020	Education Higher Education	--	--	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

The Kitchen Sisters Present 108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System	"Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popul...	January 22, 2019	Society Culture	Davia Nelson Nikki Silva	--	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

Anything But Silent Uncovering mysteries and secrets	"Hear how a Librarian solved a 33 year cold case, why the British Library is cu...	March 17, 2020	Arts Books	--	--	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,

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