This one’s for library lovers

8 episodes

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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.


  • 1

    346- Palaces for the People

    99% Invisible

    44:07 | Mar 19th, 2019

    7 recommendations

    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

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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

  • 2

    Orlean discusses “The Library Book,” and Reid Hoffman talks about “Blitzscaling.”

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    “A fire in a library has unlimited fuel.” On any other day, the largest structural fire in the history of Los Angeles might have dominated the news — but the year was 1986 and the month was April and...Show More

  • 3

    In the library

    Nothing much happens; bedtime stories to help you sleep

    21:00 | Oct 8th, 2018

    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

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    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

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    Retiring teacher-librarians aren’t being replaced — and this is a major missed opportunity. A new generation of digitally savvy, socially conscious librarians like Julia Torres could make a world of d...Show More

  • 5

    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

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    I’ve been meaning to check this podcast out for some time and it was a great conversation between two smart, likeable people — but man, the ”two-ear” thing made my ears feel itchy inside! (You hear ...Show More

  • 6

    Library Shame

    The Doc Project

    25:58 | Jan 13th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    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

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    This episode is perfect for all you hold cancellers, serial renewers and, uh, book nibblers. Library shame can be weirdly specific. My shame is that I like to underline books (in pencil!). Don’t wor...Show More

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    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

  • 8

    Libraries

    Without

    28:51 | Oct 18th, 2023

    3 recommendations

    Today, libraries are shouldering societal burdens like addiction, and have become a central battleground in this country’s raging culture wars.  A HyperObject Industries & Sony Music Entertainment ...Show More

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