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Where The Books Are Now
A podcast about Vermont's Public Libraries. In each episode we visit with library staff from one public library in Vermont and learn about its history and some of the awesome resources for the community (Did you know many public libraries lend more than books? You can find snowshoes, telescopes, tables and chairs, fishing poles, portable scanners and laminators, cake pans, games, and more). But we don't forget about books and in every episode we'll give you a few of our book recommendations. These are not your grandma's libraries! **Update** WTBAnow is on a recording hiatus for a few months. We hope to be back recording in January of 2025. Stay tuned!
Where The Books Are Now
WTBAnow Episode 6 - Craftsbury Public Library
In episode 6 of Where the Books Are Now, I chat with Susan O'Connell, Library Director at the Craftsbury Public Library in Craftsbury, VT. We chat about the history of the library, including a great story about the $50 that was set aside to build the first public library in Craftsbury. Susan also shares her philosophy about having a "Library of Things" collection, and surprises me with their collection of folding kayaks available for loan. I didn't know there was such a thing. And of course we talk about books. Susan and I both agree that we are liking books these days that are fun and/or an escape.
I share a non-fiction book for lovers of words about the Oxford English Dictionary and a companion novel that is also about the OED. My second book is a novel called The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd that plays with the idea of place. Does a place exist because it's on a map or is it on the map because it exists. I've read this one twice and had to own it.
Susan had a pile of books to share and I was very excited about that. Her picks were all fiction and included a story set in a deaf community; an immigrant story that is both funny and irreverent; and a novel set in India featuring an Indian wife whose husband has disappeared, and the other wives who just might want their husbands to disappear as well?
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