I’m getting married at the Toronto Reference Library, an institution that shaped me, kept me safe, and gave me my first decent job. I don’t regret a single minute I’ve ever spent in the stacks. So here’s my auditory ode to that.
Social Infrastructure is the glue that binds communities together, and it is just as real as the infrastructure for water, power, or communications, although it's often harder to see. But Eric Klinenb...Show More
Orlean discusses “The Library Book,” and Reid Hoffman talks about “Blitzscaling.”
Our story tonight is called “In the Library” and it’s a story about a day spent in the cool quiet company of books. It’s also about an early morning cup of coffee, the first cool days of Autumn and t...Show More
Too many schools don’t have librarians, but if yours does and you're not tapping their expertise to teach digital literacy, you're making a big mistake. Librarians Julia Torres and Lois Parker-Hennion...Show More
Welcome to the fifth chapter of 3 Books where I chat with Gretchen Rubin (@Gretchen Rubin) in the Penguin Random House studio in downtown Toronto. I met Gretchen ten years ago before her New York Tim...Show More
Catherine Cole is a self proclaimed bookaholic, with a particular affection for libraries. But returning library books has never been high on her list of priorities. Which was OK, until the day she in...Show More
Ma'ayan Plaut is the podcast librarian at RadioPublic. But she’s not like the typical master of the Dewey Decimal System you know from your local public library. And she just so happens to be the only...Show More
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Andrew Carnegie was complicated, but what he got right was the phrase “palaces for the people” — his term of endearment for libraries. These institutions are so necessary that if they didn’t exist we ...Show More