Random Libraries Podcasts

Circulating Ideas facilitates conversations about the innovative people & ideas moving libraries through the 21st century.

Categories: Education

Tags: ideas, interviews, librarians, libraries

A Readers’ Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading every genre, whether we like them or not! Every month we read books from a new, randomly picked genre; then on the podcast we discuss our reading choices, experiences, opinions, appeal factors, and other related topics as friends and library workers.

Categories: Arts, Education

Tags: Books, Genres, librarians, libraries, readersadvisory, Reading

Libraries are amazing places! The work library people do is so wide-ranging, it can be hard to keep up on the latest news. We are here to help. Each episode, we focus on one area of library work, discuss library news stories, recommend some books, and share a Spotlight Library that is doing some interesting work. If your image of libraries is dominated by crabby old women who shush you, or places where they scowl when you take books home – you are in for a big surprise. Libraries are the jewels of their communities, and doing all sorts of amazing things every day! Books are the backbone of any library, and there is so much more to do and to use. Service to every member of their community means searching out and connecting with the needs of a lot of different groups. No matter what your interests, there is a library out there for you! Listen to us talk about some of the great things happening in libraries today!

Categories: Arts, Education

Tags: competencies, leadership, libraries, library, Management, nonprofit, skillbuilding, training

Hear book talks, conversations, special presentations, stories about the happenings in the library, the Labs, and Washington, DC, and much more! This show is recorded from the Labs Recording Studio at the historic, modernized, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown Washington, D.C. This podcast was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Episode transcripts may be requested by emailing labs.dcpl@dc.gov, please include the episode name and date in your request.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: Arts, author talks, Authors, Books, creatives, Culture, DC, dc arts, dc creatives, dc culture, dc history, dc music, dc public library, dc society, Filmmaking, films, History, labs at dcpl, libraries, library voices, makerspaces, music, oral histories, Podcasts, public libraries, storytelling, studio arts, Washington DC

Open paren is a podcast about libraries, librarians, and code. It’s for newbies, architects, and everyone in between; it’s about projects, tools, services, ethics, and people. The open paren starts a code block in many languages. Let’s start something.

Categories: Society & Culture, Technology

Tags: code, librarians, libraries, software

This Week in Libraries

Categories: Technology

Tags: ebooks, Innovation, libraries, library, twil, twilibs

You Can’t Eat the Sunshine is the podcast of Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles company that turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear. Each week, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews that reveal the myths, contradictions, inspirations and passions of the place. There’s never been a city quite like Los Angeles. Tune in if you’d like to find out why.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: Aimee Semple McPherson, alternative history, architecture, archives, Art Deco, Arts District, Beaux Arts, Boosterism, boyle heights, Brian Kaiser, Bunker Hill, Bus Tours, Charles Bukowski, Charles Fletcher Lummis, decorative arts, Downtown Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, Ernest Batchelder, Esotouric, Gale Banks, Googie, Historic Core, Historic Preservation, History, hollywood, hot rods, Huell Howser, James M. Cain, John Fante, John Parkinson, Kim Cooper, libraries, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Lyman Stewart, oral history, Public Policy, Raymond Chandler, research, Richard Schave, Route 66, San Gabriel Valley, Sister Aimee, Skid Row, southern california, Steve Jobs, The Garden of Allah, tile, tourism, Watts Towers, West Hollywood, Wyvernwood

A check of news headlines from the library world

Categories: Education

Tags: bibliographic, info, infolit, information, instruction, librarianship, libraries, library, lit, literacy, marv

The New York Public Library’s podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

Categories: Arts, TV & Film

Tags: 271124, Books, Culture, Funny, learning, libraries, library, literacy, Literature, Newyorkcity, nyc, nypl, popculture, reader, Reading, reviews

Steve & Dolly make libraries less boring.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: librarians, libraries

A weekly podcast sharing news from the publishing industry, libraries, bookstores, authors, and the bestseller lists from the New York Times and Amazon. If it’s happening in the world of books, we’ll tell you about it.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Books, libraries, News, publishing, Reading, weekly

A monthly podcast by and for library information literacy instructors and teaching librarians. The show includes features, interviews and discussion about teaching in libraries.

Categories: Education

Tags: information, librarians, libraries, literacy, teaching

Every Friday, librarians and archivists from the Georgia Tech Library pick a theme and free-associate an hour of music, interviews, and library talk.

Categories: Society & Culture, Technology

Tags: interview, interviews, librarian, librarians, libraries, library, music, talk

The Book of Life is an interview-format podcast about Jewish kidlit, mostly, with occasional coverage of Jewish YA/adult books, music, film and web, established in December 2005. Host: Heidi Rabinowitz Sponsors: Feldman Children’s Library at Congregation B’nai Israel of Boca Raton, Florida & the Association of Jewish Libraries

Categories: Arts, Religion & Spirituality

Tags: Authors, Books, interviews, jewish, kidlit, libraries

These Books Made Me is a podcast about the literary heroines who shaped us and is a product of the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System podcast network. Stay in touch with us via Twitter @PGCMLS with #TheseBooksMadeMe or by email at TheseBooksMadeMe@pgcmls.info. For recommended readalikes and deep dives into topics related to each episode, visit our blog at pgcmls.medium.com.

Categories: Arts, Leisure, Society & Culture

Tags: Books, classics, female, girls, heroines, kidlit, libraries, literary, millennial, Reading, throwback

In this podcast we’ll hear from members about how they are implementing Education 4.0 technologies including their challenges, successes, and where they had to re-assess.

Categories: Education, Technology

Tags: advice, collection, collections, college, colleges, digitisation, Education, Guidance, internet, libraries, networks, News, school, Technology, universities, university

Books and Bites JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.

Categories: Education

Tags: Books, libraries, Reading

Buzzing, creative, brave. Places of sanctuary, freedom, and the unexpected. Libraries don’t just keep our stories safe; they’re where new stories begin. Meet the people around the world making amazing things happen in them. Hosted by Cleo Laskarin from our exhibitions team. Books are only the beginning. Libraries are alive, and they’re anything but silent. Supported by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library. A Pixiu Production. Amid the pandemic, we hear from the British Library team ensuring crucial documents are delivered to public health services, a library that has exchanged books for food parcels, and a bridal studio, supported by our Business and IP Centre, who pivoted to ‘something new’ when the crisis hit.

Categories: Arts

Tags: art, Books, History, libraries, Literature, the british library