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 Jessica Trotter of the Capital Area District Libraries (MI) about all things readers’ advisory training, from grassroots staff efforts to defining core competencies and all kinds of stuff in between. Then, Audio Editor Heather Booth gets the inside scoop on the biggest audiobook awards of the year, the Audies, from the Audio Publishers Association’s Michele Cobb. Lastly but not leastly, Susan talks to Senior Editor, Books for Youth Ronny Khuri about what he’s reading and loving.

Here’s what we talked about:

LibraryReads
Readers’ Advisory Service in the Public Library, by Joyce G. Saricks.
Fantastic Fiction
Desperation in Death, by JD Robb 
In the Upper Country, by Kai Thomas
Finding Me, by Viola Davis, read by the author
Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon, by Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Headlam, read by Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam, and Paul Simon
Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt, read by Marin Ireland and Michael Urie
Wake, by Rebecca Hall, art by Hugo Martínez, read by a full cast
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, read by a full cast
Audie Short List
Dark Angel,  by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson, read by McLeod Andrews
Marriage Be Hard, by Kevin Fredericks and Melissa Fredericks, read by the authors
Audiopub.org
Audies@audiopub.org
Audio Publishers Association YouTube Channel
The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams, by Daniel Nayeri
Dear Mothman, by Robin Gow
Indigo and Ida, by Heather Murphy Capps
Shelf Care Interview with Heather Murphy Capps

Episode 27: RA Training, The Audies, And Mothman

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Episode 27: RA Training, The Audies, And Mothman

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