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Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians are back for season four of PCL’s podcast! The latest episode includes a visit from Dan Schneiderman, the Eclipse Partnerships Coordinator for the Rochester Museum & Science Center, who shares details on w
Richard B. Colón and Quajay Donnell, curators of the Behind the Glass Gallery in The Mercantile-on-Main, visited PCL recently to discuss the art and photography space with Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians! Celebrated street photographers
Robin L. Flanigan dropped by the Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians’ studio recently to chat with Robyn and Jim about her new book, 100 Things to Do in Rochester Before You Die. They discuss the research and writing process behind the compr
Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians return this week with a podcast episode featuring two local book reviewers! Listen as Robyn and Jim interview Pittsford Bookstagrammers Emily Waller and Hannah Ramsey—otherwise known as @emilyisoverbooked a
Jim, Robyn, and Roberta reunite for another book club episode, this time discussing Susan Orlean's On Animals. They touch on their favorite parts of the book, how Orlean highlighted the relationships that humans have with animals, and how the b
Ravi Mangla, author of The Observant, stopped by PCL recently to chat with Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians about his 2022 novel, his writing style and favorite books, and what the Monroe County Library System has meant to him. The Pittsfo
Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 and the soon-to-be-released sequel, Antimatter Blues, stopped by PCL to talk to Jim and Robyn about writing, reading, and having his book made into a movie starring Robert Pattinson and directed by Bong Joon Ho,
Artist and community advocate Taurus Savant dropped by PCL to chat with Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians! Taurus, who will perform at PCL on Feb. 25, talks with Robyn and Jim about his music and its origins, the inspiration for his art, an
This week on Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians, Robyn and Jim welcome Calvin Eaton—the Gluten Free Chef and founder of 540WMain, Inc.—to the podcast! Together, they discuss the beginnings of Calvin's gluten-free journey, his work with the g
Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians are back! Robyn and Jim kick off season three by interviewing Francesca Padilla, the ROC-based author of 2022's What's Coming to Me, a much-celebrated debut described as a poignant and thrilling contemporar
On this episode, Jim and Robyn are joined by Eboni Jones, Curator of Interpretive Resources at the Charlotte Whitney Allen Library at the Memorial Art Gallery. They touch on what the job of a museum librarian is like, what unexpected items are
On the heels of the Eisner Award nominations, Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians are back to talk all things graphic novels! Jason Poole, outreach coordinator at the Webster Public Library and a past Eisner judge, stops by to share his exper
Rhonda Rossman, Penfield Public Library director (and former director of the Pittsford Community Library!), stops by to chat with Robyn and Jim about summer books, Summer Reading, and what kind of reader she is.
Emily Hessney Lynch, MCLS trustee, writer, and owner of Serve Me the Sky Digital, joins Jim and Robyn to talk social media, what it's like to be a member of the MCLS Board of Trustees, and (of course) books!
George Rollie Adams, author and President & CEO Emeritus of The Strong museum, sat down with Jim and Robyn to discuss his career, what is was like to grow up in the segregated south, and how his childhood and career influenced his writing. Lear
Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians are back at it with another book club! This time they're talking about To Paradise, the follow-up novel to Hanya Yanagihara's 2015 epic masterpiece, A Little Life. Tune in to hear all of the hot takes and s
Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians are back at the microphone again this week, and to celebrate National Library Week they chat with Patty Uttaro, the Director of the Monroe County Library System and the Rochester Public Library! It's a conv
It's officially Oscars Season, which means your friendly neighborhood librarians Robyn and Jim are talkin' movies! They sat down with The Little Theatre's Scott Pukos, host of the Movies and a Microphone podcast, about all the nominated movies
This week, Jim and Robyn are joined by Democrat and Chronicle reporter Justin Murphy. They discuss the history of school segregation in Rochester, what the current state of RCSD is, and what the future of education looks like in Rochester. Murp
This episode, Jim and Robyn are joined by their favorite book club buddy, Roberta the page, as well as first-time guest Laura, PCL's teen and tech librarian! They have a conversation on book banning, the book Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, and th
Jim and Robyn talk books, public art, and the In This Moment chapbook series with Quajay Donnell, who was named a runner up in the Best Ambassador category of CITY Newspaper's 2021 Best of Rochester poll.Stick around to the end for a recommend
In this episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians, Jim and Robyn talk to Democrat and Chronicle reporter Gary Craig about The Prison Guard's Daughter: My Journey Through the Ashes of Attica, which he recently co-authored with Deanne Quin
In this episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians, Jim and Robyn talk to Pittsford's own Kevin Beckford. They discuss the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., how Beckford hopes Dr. King's dream will continue to manifest throughout futu
Jim and Robyn are back for season two of Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians! The first episode of the season features a discussion about the best books of 2021 with Adrienne Pettinelli, director of the Henrietta Public Library, and a convers
Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians are back with a new episode full of bookish banter! On the podcast this month we discuss the benefits of different types of reading formats and hear an enlightening interview with Alison Meyers, the executi
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