Call Number with American Libraries Podcast

About Call Number with American Libraries Podcast

Call Number is the popular podcast series from American Libraries, the magazine of the American Library Association. Each month, your host and American Libraries Associate Editor Diana Panuncial will be your guide to conversations with librarians, authors, thinkers, and scholars about topics from the library world and beyond.

Publisher

Call Number with American Libraries Podcast

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Apr 2016

Latest episode

18 Dec 2024

Latest episodes

1 of 119 episodes have a transcript.

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   18 Dec 2024

   Episode 99: 2024 Author Chats by Call Number with American Libraries

   The Call Number team shares exclusive clips from 2024 author interviews, highlighting the profound impact of libraries on writers' lives and creative processes.

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   11 Nov 2024

   Episode 98: Small Libraries, Big Ideas

   Small and rural libraries don’t always have the same resources and opportunities that urban libraries do. But they still have big ideas about how to serve their communities—and, as we hear in Episode 98, they find ways to realize them. At Burlingame (Kans.) Community Library, sensory spaces and a new loanable resource collection are improving the lives of patrons with disabilities and their families. Meanwhile, at North Liberty (Iowa) Library, staffers are moderating discussions on hot-button topics that are getting community members to open up, listen to one another, and connect. Both libraries have received funding from the American Library Association’s Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC) grant program. Learn more about LTC grant-funded projects throughout the US in “Libraries Transforming Communities, One Year Later,” published in the November/December 2024 issue of American Libraries.

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   16 Oct 2024

   Rebroadcast of Episode 31: The Haunting of Peoria Public Library

   Books flying off the shelves. Shadowy figures roaming the hallways. Unexplained sounds. What’s going on at Peoria (Ill.) Public Library? Is the building possessed by spirits hovering above cursed ground? Or are these apparitions just a sign that librarians have been spending too much time in the stacks? Do not attempt to adjust your audio. In this rebroadcast of Episode 31, “The Haunting of Peoria Public Library,” past-host Phil Morehart road-trips to Central Illinois to get to the bottom of these strange happenings. Along the way, he enlists the advice of professionals—including award-winning nonfiction author and well-known debunker Mary Roach (Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife) and paranormal writer and speaker John B. Kachuba (Ghosthunting Illinois)—and interviews staffers at Peoria Public Library and Bradley University Library about their otherworldly encounters.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 36: Spring Cleaning: Weeding Your Collections

Published 29 Mar 2019 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And their big acronym is musty, M -U -S -T -I -E. So the M is misleading, books that are factually inaccurate. You is for ugly, books that are beyond mending or rebinding. The S is for superseded by a new edition or a much better book on the subject. T is for trivial, no discernible literary or scientific merit. I are relevant. It's irrelevant to the need, the interest of your particular library community. And the E of musty is for elsewhere. The material is easily obtainable from another library. So that's one of those kind of cute little things to have in your mind. And they actually assign a weight to all of those things for each section. […]

Who has been a guest on Call Number with American Libraries Podcast

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• Hanif Abdurraqib
• Kwame Alexander
• Connie Chung
• Kate DiCamillo
• Max Greenfield

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

43 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

2 ratings

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