Library Bytegeist Podcast
1) #18 Presenting Preserve This Podcast!
Enjoy this clip from a new podcast that Library Bytegeist host and producer, Molly Schwartz, has been working on! It's called Preserve This Podcast. You can find more information on our website, at ww...Show More
2) #17 At Home in the Library
This episode of Library Bytegeist is all about New York’s public libraries and the people who inhabit them. In a city that has a reputation for being inhospitable, many people have found a makeshift h...Show More
3) #16 Collectors, Keepers, and a Kitchen Sister
This episode of Library Bytegeist is all about collectors and keepers. The people who go through life gathering and capturing and saving things. First up, we have a short story by Sarah Esocoff about...Show More
4) #15 Classifying Books, Classifying People
The Dewey Decimal System is the most popular library classification system in the world. It was created by a man, named Melvil Dewey, in the late 1870's. And Dewey's system of classifying knowledge re...Show More
5) #14 Bye bye Bytegeist ... a year in review!
One year ago today, we post the first episode of Library Bytegeist. Molly Schwartz, METRO’s Studio Manager who also hosts and produces LB, decided to take the 14th episode to put together a kind of “y...Show More
6) #13 Talking GitHub with Dinah Handel and Ethan Gates
GitHub is a great tool for collaborating and providing access to content -- which makes it a great tool for libraries and archives! Dinah Handel (NYPL) and Ethan Gates (NYU) taught an introductory Git...Show More
7) #12 Talking Project Code with NYPL’s Brandy McNeil
Brandy McNeil is the Associate Director for Technology Education at the New York Public Library. Over 100,000 New Yorkers come through their TechConnect classes in 89 branch libraries across Manhattan...Show More
8) #11 Talking Internet Filters in Public Libraries with Westchester Library System's Rob Caluori
Public libraries are important access points to the internet. But sometimes people use library computers to engage in activities that are controversial activities for public spaces, like watching porn...Show More
9) #10 Talking Libraries in the EU with Ilona Kish
Ilona Kish is the program director of Reading & Writing Foundation in Brussels, Belgium. She stopped by METRO's offices on June 21, 2017 to give a talk about the initiatives she has led to harmonize l...Show More
10) #9 Talking Mesh Networks with Raul Enriquez and Mario Peart [LIVE RECORDING]
In this live recording at BRIC Media Arts for the Public Access / Open Networks exhibit, Molly was joined by the New America Foundation's Raul Enriquez and Gowanus Digital Steward Mario Peart to talk ...Show More
#9 Talking Mesh Networks with Raul Enriquez and Mario Peart [LIVE RECORDING]
29:56 | May 30th, 2017