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The Distracted Librarians

Bloomfield Township Public Library

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The Bloomfield Township Public Library presents the Distracted Librarians Podcast. We are your friendly neighborhood bookworms who can’t resist the siren call of movies, video games, music and everything else in the pop culture universe. Sit back, relax, and prepare to get delightfully distracted with us!
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A podcast started by a school librarian turned Storyteller and Podcaster who believes in the power of storytelling for creating awareness and inclusion. Member of school library association & Spectrum -The Awareness Project and their "Story Aunty Neena." Recipient of GetLitt "The Most Motivating Librarian" award 2020-21. "We fall, fail, and stress, yet we hope for the best." Ready to face challenges with determination for a better tomorrow? littlestorytellers aims to help children and adults ...
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Stump the Librarian

Kent District Library

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Welcome to Kent District Library’s Stump the Librarian Podcast where your friendly neighborhood librarians put their research skills to the test answering questions from you, the listener! Jill and Liz every other Wednesday to learn new and exciting information. Think you have a question that can stump us? Visit www.kdl.org/stump to submit a question of your own!
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Reading Room Ruffians

Carla Long, Mallory Parsons, Ariel Rebstock, and Zac Long

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A podcast for the Jackson County Public Library in Ripley, WV. Keep up to date with the library events, librarian thoughts, and a splash of guests for taste.
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Against the Grain is your key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. Our goal is to link publishers, vendors, and librarians by reporting on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals.
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Strange Country

Strange Country

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Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it is. Co-hosts Kelly and Beth are former newspaper reporters turned school librarians who have always had a soft spot for a good story--the stranger the better. Discover the first woman to survive a barrel ride over Niagara Falls and the man who invented “complex marriage” in one of the most successful utopian experiments. Things get weird pretty quickly around here.
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Prompt to Page

Jessamine County Public Library

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A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing prompts—exercises that can help inspire, focus, and improve your creative writing. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, a novelist, essayist, or poet, you’ll find ideas and advice to motivate you to keep writing. A partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
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Middle Grade Mavens

Julie Grasso+Pamela Ueckerman

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The Middle-Grade Mavens are two Australian authors reviewing middle-grade children's books. We also chat with authors and illustrators about their inspiration, processes and experience and sometimes we interview publishers and agents to find out more about the industry. Whether you're a writer, school librarian, teacher, or just a book fan, this is for you. Julie Anne Grasso is the author of the Frankie Dupont Mystery series, cupcake enthusiast and part-time library book wrangler. Pamela Uec ...
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The Okie Bookcast is dedicated to helping curious readers like you find your next great read by connecting you to Oklahoma authors and stories. The show features monthly interviews with contributors to the reading life of Oklahoma - it might be an author, publisher, librarian, reader, bookseller, or other figure. In addition to interviews, the show has a monthly book conversation full of reviews and recommendations. New episodes drop on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. Connect with ...
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Expert interviews, action steps, and behind-the-shelves secrets from veteran school librarians… all tied together by my mission to build your personal learning network (PLN) and take charge of your professional development so you will flourish as an effective instructional partner in the library, classroom, and school. Visit www.laurasheneman.com/contact to nominate someone for an interview.
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Reach Out and Read

Reach Out and Read

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From the national organization Reach Out and Read comes a brand new podcast centered around the belief that children’s books build better brains, better family relationships, and happier, healthy children and societies. Join us as host Dr Dipesh Navsaria, a pediatrician with a children’s librarianship degree, dives into a wealth of varied early childhood health and literacy topics with expert guests examining the many facets of supporting the parent-child relationship as key to early success.
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Working with Dan Doriani

Center for Faith and Work

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This podcast seeks to fire the imagination of Christians who long to practice their faith at work. The podcast features interviews of people who try to practice their faith at work. Guests may be famous or unknown. They may be very successful, quietly faithful, or instructive in their woes. We typically interview mature Christians, but there are exceptions. The common thread is a desire to live by one’s faith and convictions. Guests include professional athletes, award-winning broadcasters, ...
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Welcome to 'Allie the Librarian Booktalks,' where I share thoughts on books I've read and ones on my TBR. Let's chat about the stories that have captured my attention and explore the promising reads waiting on the horizon. I'm Allie, your book-loving librarian, inviting you to join me in talking about some great reads.
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The Children's Book Podcast

Matthew C. Winner

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Celebrating the power of storytelling to reflect our world, expand our perspectives, and foster connections between readers of all ages. The Children's Book Podcast features interviews with authors, illustrators, and everyone involved in taking a book from drawing board to bookshelf. Hosted by Matthew C. Winner, a teacher, librarian, writer, and fan of kids. Brought to you in partnership with the Highlights Foundation, positively impacting kids by amplifying the voices of storytellers who in ...
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Continuing the 2025 Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with Sherry Thomas, author of The Librarians, about her love for libraries, learning English from reading books, her Lady Sherlock series, and her writing process, especially for her first contemporary mystery novel. And in The Circ Desk segment, Rebecca Vnuk from Library Reads and from Ap…
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Some authors really can do it all! On this episode, Nicole, Drew, Killian, and Amanda discuss authors who not only write for one age group, but two (or more)! From personal favorites to widely known names, the Distracted Librarians consider what it takes to successfully write across age ranges and who gets to decide what age the book is for anyways…
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This episode we talk about Death Stranding 2, Persona 5 x and more! Chapters: Intro: 00:00 News:00:24 Death Stranding 2: 4:48 Persona 5 X: 20:57 Credits: 29:19 Podbean: https:/ /thegamerlibrarianytchannel.podbean.com/ Social Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/GamerLibra888 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLibrarianGamerPodcast?fan_landing=true …
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Send us a text What if your favorite lyrics could help unlock a child’s ability to read? This episode, I sit down with Sage Salvo, the visionary behind Words Liive, to explore how hip-hop, innovation, and purpose are fueling a national literacy revolution. We talk about: The moment he realized lyrics are literature How the Opus App turns music into…
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The librarian Castor Cain, and Vega the cat, travel to the dangerous and mysterious frozen wastelands known as the Frostgraves. There they study a sad tale of madness and anger: The Lich-Lord Dastardly Decimal System Resources: Voice of Castor Cain: Larry Gent Voice of Vega: Vash and Zid Episode Tea: Gooseberry tea Setting: Frostgrave Music was “Wi…
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Jyoti Rajan Gopal, author of Over in the Mangroves (Orchard Books), illustrated by Dikshaa Pawaskar, joins Matthew to talk about a place so magical and so important. Visit Jyoti Rajan Gopal online at jyotirajangopal.com For a full transcript, episode takeaways, quotes, and more, visit DeepCast.fm and search “The Children’s Book Podcast” or click on…
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Text the Bookcast and say "hi"! Welcome to Volume 13 - our Year 3 Celebration! You can check out previous volumes at okiebookcast.com/behindtherain Here's the Lineup: After an Open Mic, Someone Tells Me I Really Captured the Backwardness of Oklahoma - Seth Copeland IG: @sethtcope Site: https://neutralspaces.co/seth_t_copeland/ One Horse OK Celebrat…
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In this episode:Spirit of the Crocodile by Aaron Fa'Aoso and Michelle Scott Tucker with Lyn White, published by @allenandunwinEverglade: Rise of the Witch by Kitty Black, published by @affirmpressOur Dance by Jacinta Daniher and Taylor Hampton, illustrated by Janelle Burger, published by @hachettekidsanzAlways Your Sister by Frances Prentice, publi…
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Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with John Willinsky, Founder, Public Knowledge Project. In this conversation, John talks about his career beginnings as a schoolteacher, then becoming a college professor and researcher. In 1998, he became frustrated with being unable to share researc…
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Maham Khwaja, author of The Home We Make (Lee & Low Books), illustrated by Daby Zainab Faidhi, shares what is giving her hope today: us, grounded and moving through our lives. Second by second. And day by day. This is a new miniseries of indefinite length in which I invite my friends from the kidlit community to share what is giving them hope today…
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Guests: Tina Seetoo, Preservation Manager at the Delta Flight Museum and Chair of Georgia Heritage Responders, and Erica Hague, Collections Manager at the Atlanta History Center and Communications Manager for Georgia Heritage Responders. First broadcast July 11 2025. Playlist here "I'm looking forward to learning all about this organization that re…
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This week on The Book Drop, we celebrate Family Reunion Month and dig into genealogy with our guests Martha and Jess from OPL’s Genealogy & Local History Room. This is the Book Drop. All the books and resources we talk about in this episode can be found here or by visiting omahalibrary.org/podcast. Happening at the Library: Cardboard Mannequins: Bu…
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Dear Dashhounds, have you lost the ability to handle all the things? Enough that you are thinking about bringing back the streaking fad of the 70s? Before you get all hot and bothered and start taking off your clothes in front of strangers, listen to this Strange Country episode #300 about where streaking in ‘Merica originated. If you thought it wa…
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How we think and talk about kids and digital media use has evolved as we've learned more and refined better approaches that are more practical for parents. Dr. Jenny Radesky, Co-Medical Director of the AAP's Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health, joins us to talk about "The 5 C's" - a straightforward and highly effective way …
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Christians throughout history have wrestled with the questions around virtue - what is it? How is Christ's virtue ethics different from the ethics of other philosophers? In this episode, Clay Smith interviews Dan and Robbie Griggs about their work on the book "The Death of the Seven Deadly Sins." Tune in to hear what the Bible and its ancient comme…
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Continuing the 2025 Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with Alma Katsu, author of Fiend, about her experiences with libraries, her career in intelligence, the evolving nature of the horror genre, and artificial intelligence. And in The Circ Desk segment, Rebecca Vnuk from Library Reads and Yaika Sabat from NoveList offer reading recommendation…
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Gordon Korman, author of Snoop (Scholastic Press), joins Matthew to talk about exploring all-the-way stakes and taking inspiration from Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Visit Gordon Korman online at gordonkorman.com For a full transcript, episode takeaways, quotes, and more, visit DeepCast.fm and search “The Children’s Book Podcast” or click on the link in…
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Apologies for the audio on this episode, I did my best to clean it up. This episode we have our 2nd guest, Micah from Crashable Studios to talk about their upcoming game Wildwood Down. I am grateful for Micah being the very first game dev to come onto the show! Wildwood Down is a comedy, mystery point and click game releasing on August 7th on steam…
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Send us a text This is part 1 of our discussion of Mort by Terry Pratchett! Make sure to read along with us so you can participate in the spoiler discussion next time! Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one of our Reading Room Ruff…
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Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Stephen Webster, Director, Science Communication Unit, Imperial College, London. Stephan began his career by studying biology and the life sciences and attended Cambridge University where he studied the philosophy of science, and became intereste…
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Lulu Delacre, author illustrator of Rafi and Rosi: Menu!/Rafi Y Rosi: ¡Menú! (Children's Book Press) shares what is giving her hope today: the laughter of children at the bus stop. The laughter of children reading a book. The laughter of children. Children. This is a new miniseries of indefinite length in which I invite my friends from the kidlit c…
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This week on The Book Drop, we explore how blockbuster movies shape pop culture and we talk with our friends at Film Streams about what it means to go to the movies! This is the Book Drop. All the books and resources we talk about in this episode can be found here or by visiting omahalibrary.org/podcast. Happening at the Library: Textile Art with M…
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Inthis episode: Welcometo Miracle by Shara Curlett, published by @scholastic_au Elsewhereby Shelby Matheson, published by @wombat_books VillainBook One by Adrian Beck, published by @scholastic_au RIPNanny Tobbins by Lucie Stevens, published by @harperkidsau Silverborn:The Mystery of Morrigan Crowe by Jessica Townsend, published by @hachetteaus…
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Continuing the 2025 Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with Jayson Greene, author of UnWorld, about his personal experiences with libraries, the emotional and thematic underpinnings of “UnWorld,” including grief and the concept of memory, as well as the novel’s speculative exploration of AI. And in The Circ Desk segment, Rebecca Vnuk from Libr…
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In the market for a new read? Good, that's what librarians are here for! On this new episode, Nicole, Amanda, Drew, and Killian discuss the art of the reference interview, some of our favorite and most challenging questions to be asked about book recommendations on desk, and helpful websites and resources for anything to use in finding your next gr…
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On the latest episode of New Title Drop, Angela and Melanie commiserate over their bookish pet peeves, like distracting audiobook narration and genre clichés, before diving into their picks for July’s new releases. Check out this month's titles and place holds here or visit omahalibrary.org/podcast. Check in with us on the first Tuesday of every mo…
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Meg Medina, author of Graciela in the Abyss (Candlewick), joins Matthew to talk about how every author reveals themselves through their work. Visit Meg Medina online at megmedina.com For a full transcript, episode takeaways, quotes, and more, visit DeepCast.fm and search “The Children’s Book Podcast” or click on the link in the show notes. Learn mo…
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Today we talk about Emulating, Death Stranding 2, and more! Chapters: Intro: 00:00 Xbox Cuts Continue: 01:05 Banned Fortnite Player: 02:36 IGN Score Shirts: 02:56 Dave The Diver 2 Year: 03:22 Emulating Games: 05:08 DS2: On the Beach: 16:36 Berserk 382: 30:31 One Piece 1153: 32:07 Credits: 34:40 Podbean: https://thegamerlibrarianytchannel.podbean.co…
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Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with David Worlock, Publishing Veteran and Digital Strategy Advisor. David began his career in the scholarly publishing industry over 50 years ago. In this conversation, he reflects on the evolution of scholarly communication since the 1970’s when he …
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David Bowles, author of The Hero Twins and the Magic of Song (Cinco Puntos Press) shares what is giving him hope today: the certainty that, no matter what happens, our stories will survive. This is a new miniseries of indefinite length in which I invite my friends from the kidlit community to share what is giving them hope today. For a full transcr…
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