Check It Out is the official podcast of St. Tammany Parish Library, featuring conversations with library staff, local authors, musicians, community partners, and other voices from across the parish. Each episode explores the stories, programs, resources, and people that connect our community through the library. Learn more at http://sttammanylibrary.org/podcast
Check It Out: St. Tammany Parish Library Podcast
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Check It Out is the official podcast of St. Tammany Parish Library, featuring conversations with library staff, local authors, musicians, community partners, and other voices from across the parish. Each episode explores the stories, programs, resources, and people that connect our community through the library. Learn more at http://sttammanylibrary.org/podcast
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Recent Episodes
July 24, 2026
We Dig Rocks, Gems, & Geodes
<p class="isSelectedEnd">In this episode of Check It Out, James sits down with Chris from We Dig, a Mandeville-based traveling rock shop experience, to talk about rocks, gems, geodes, fossils, and the adventures behind finding them.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Chris shares how We Dig became a family business, what it's like traveling the country to dig for treasures, and how their hands-on library programs let kids and adults explore real specimens up close. Along the way, we talk about cracking geodes, digging quartz, finding fossils, panning for gold, and the stories hidden in the ground beneath us.</p> <p>Learn more about St. Tammany Parish Library's upcoming events at:<br /> <a href= "https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/events">https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/events</a><br /> <br /> We Dig:<br /> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/p/We-dig-100090457474626/">https://www.facebook.com/p/We-dig-100090457474626/</a></p>
July 15, 2026
Book Club: Absolution
<p>This month on the Check It Out Book Club, James is joined by Megan and Erika from the South Slidell Branch to discuss Absolution by Alice McDermott.</p> <p>We talk about the novel's characters, its portrayal of American life in Saigon, the complicated nature of good intentions, and the revelations that reshape the story by the end.</p> <p>Content note: This episode includes discussion of miscarriage.</p> <p>Our next Book Club selection is Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke, a workplace comedy told entirely through Slack messages. We'll feature it in an upcoming episode of Check It Out. Submit your thoughts or questions for the episode at: <a href= "https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/podcast">https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/podcast</a></p> <p>Find upcoming library events: <a href= "https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/events">https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/events</a></p> <p>Learn more about Summer Reading: <a href= "https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/summerreading">https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/summerreading</a></p>
June 24, 2026
Unearthing the Stories of Fossils
<p class="isSelectedEnd">In this episode of Check It Out, James sits down with paleontologist Mason Kirkland from the Louisiana Art & Science Museum to unearth the stories hidden inside fossils and talk about the Museum's upcoming Dino Day.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Mason shares how a childhood fascination with dinosaurs became a career in paleontology, explains what paleontologists actually do, introduces us to Jason, the museum's remarkably preserved Triceratops skull, and much more.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Along the way, we explore Louisiana's prehistoric past, the difference between mammoths and mastodons, where fossils can be found, what to do if you discover one, and how scientists use fossils to piece together the history of life on Earth. Mason also shows off several incredible and ancient specimens.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Learn more about St. Tammany Parish Library's Summer Reading Challenge at:<br /> <a href= "https://www.sttammanylibrary.org">https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/summerreading</a></p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">And other upcoming library events at:<br /> <a href= "https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/events">https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/events</a></p>
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