In Episode 63, Call Number with American Libraries looks at outdoor-related activities with conversations about bugs, beach reads, and outdoor learning. 

First, ALA Editions Senior Acquisitions Editor Rachel Chance speaks with Erin Rothenbuehler and Sean Duffy from Ohio County (W.V.) Public Library about a series of programs the library offers on bugs, most notably the Brood Ten cicadas. Next American Libraries Associate Editor Sallyann Price talks with Susan Maguire, Senior Editor, Collection Management and Library Outreach, at Booklist, and host of the Shelf Care podcast, about this summer’s best beach reads. Finally, American Libraries Senior Editor and Call Number host Phil Morehart speaks with Denni Grassel, director of Delmont (Penn.) Library, about Delmont's new outdoor learning center.

Episode 63: Getting Outdoors

On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to Indianapolis (IL) Public Library’s Montoya Barker about all things book group—selecting titles, leading a group, and all kinds of other stuff. Then, Susan chats with Booklist Audio Editor Heather Booth about what she’s reading and loving.

Here’s what we talked about:

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, by Hallie Rubenhold
Miss Benson’s Beetle, by Rachel Joyce
The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, by Grady Hendrix
Artemis, by Andy Weir
Becoming, by Michelle Obama
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, by Alan Rickman 
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster, by Adam Higginbotham
Suburban Hell, by Maureen Kilmer
Rules of Engagement, by Christine Dodd
The Rewind, by Allison Winn Scotch, read by Julia Whelan and MacLeod Andrews
The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy, read by Julia Whelan and MacLeod Andrews
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk, by Buddy Levy, read by Will Damron
Dear Prudence: Liberating Lessons from Slate.com’s Beloved Advice Column, by Daniel M. Lavery
Paris, by Paris Hilton

Episode 26: A Deep Dive into Book Groups

Where we talk all things readers’ advisory, collection development, reference, and other library-related bookish stuff, from your friends at Booklist. Want more? Is it even possible? Go to www.booklistonline.com/newsletters to discover the magic.

Episode 26: A Deep Dive into Book Groups

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