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    Borrowed & Returned

    Brooklyn Public Library is full of stories. Borrowed brings the best of them to you.

    Current podcast series:

    Borrowed & Returned is a new podcast series that examines what our reading public borrowed in the past, and what we’re all reading now. In conversations with library workers, authors and readers across the country, we’ll return to the books that changed us, and changed America, too. 

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    Borrowed and Banned is BPL’s Peabody-nominated series about America’s ideological war with its bookshelves. From September to December 2023, we released ten episodes featuring the stories from students, librarians, and teachers on the frontlines of intellectual freedom, and writers whose books have become political battleground. This series also won a Webby Award and was nominated for an Ambie Award.  

    BPL’s Anthem Award-winning podcast is a narrative show about superhero librarians, neighborhood stories, and what it means to be a free, democratic place in today’s changing world. We’ve told stories about libraries during natural disasters, the challenges of homelessness, and NYC’s fraught relationship with trash.

    For transcripts, pictures, book lists, and resources, please visit our web page: bklynlib.org/podcasts 

    The views, thoughts, and opinions of the guests do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Brooklyn Public Library.

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    Latest Episodes:
    Pathways to Leadership Jul 05, 2023
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    Kesha Powell and Amen Emile have been working at BPL for over 20 years in various roles, from public safety to circulation manager. Thanks to BPL's Pathways to Leadership program—a scholarship and mentorship initiative designed to diversify the field of librarianship—they will soon be fully-certified librarians.

    Read the transcript and find further resources here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/pathways-leadership


    Meet Our (Almost) Six-Year-Old Librarian Jun 14, 2023
    Show notes

    If you ask Hannah Jean what would be her greatest wish, she will say running Brooklyn Public Library. Last month, she got to do just that.

    Read the transcript and check out our book list: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/meet-our-almost-six-year


    The Teens are Offline May 30, 2023
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    Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that social media and smart phones just aren't working for them.

    Read the transcript and check out additional resources here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/teens-are-offline Listen to Undiscarded: Stories of New York: https://undiscarded.org/

    Seeking Asylum May 17, 2023
    Show notes

    Asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York City. We look at how one faith-based organization is responding to the continuing crisis in the hope that these personal narratives offer a window into the experience of migrants in Brooklyn today.

    For a transcript of this episode in English and links to resources, visit: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/seeking-asylum


    Buscando Asilo May 17, 2023
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    Este episodio es sobre los solicitantes de asilo en la ciudad de Nueva York. Estamos compartiendo estas narrativas personales con la esperanza de que escucharlas devuelva la humanidad a esta crisis.

    Para leer el episodio en inglés y más recursos: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/buscando-asilo


    A Place of Refuge Apr 18, 2023
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    Last year, New York City began to see an increase in the number of migrants seeking asylum. The library is a small part of the city-wide response to help those seeking refuge. This episode, we'll talk about library and city efforts with Manuel Castro, the Commissioner at the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs.

    Links to resources and the epiosde transcript are here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/place-refuge


    What's Your Library Worth? Mar 30, 2023
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    Did you know there are some public libraries that loan out snowshoes? And cement mixers? And Santa suits? This episode, we try to calculate what your public library is worth, and ask how you can give back to support public libraries.

    Read the transcript and find more resources here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/whats-your-library-worth

    Go, Robots, Go! Mar 02, 2023
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    With tablets, Legos, and coding, these fourteen teams from library branches across Brooklyn met at Central Library to compete in the final championship of Brooklyn Robotics League — resulting in what is surely one of our loudest stories ever.

    Read a transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/go-robots-go


    Happily Ever After Feb 14, 2023
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    We love love at the library, so for Valentine's Day this year, we're devoting the episode Romance Novels! We'll learn how Romance covers hint at what's between them, and chat with writer Nichole Perkins about how the genre is diversifying.

    Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/happily-ever-after


    La Hora Mágica Feb 01, 2023
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    La Hora Mágica has been the heart of Sunset Park’s storytime programming for a decade now, highlighting songs and stories in Spanish and English for speakers of all different languages.

    Read the transcript here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/la-hora-m%C3%A1gica


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