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

This episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast is all about Summer Scares. First, host Susan Maguire talks to Summer Scares committee member Konrad Stump and librarian Rebecca Leannah (from the Racine, WI Public Library) about what kinds of programming they do around Summer Scares, what to tell patrons who think horror is not for them, the Wisconsin version of Tiger King. Then, Susan gets the skinny on the selections for this years’ readers, first from author spokesperson Daniel Kraus and Summer Scares committee member Becky Spratford, then from Booklist’s own Julia Smith. Spooky! And fun.

This Thing Between Us, by Gus Moreno
Rotters, by Daniel Kraus
Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark
Catherine House, by Elizabeth Thomas
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, by Daniel M. Lavery
In the Shadow of Blackbirds, by Cat Winters
Squad, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, illus. by Lisa Sterle
Mooncakes, by Suzanne Walker, illus. by Wendy Xu
Horror Writers Association’s StokerCon 2023 in Pittsburgh
The Living Dead, by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus
Evil Whispers, by Owl Goingback
“Spectrum of Horror: From Shivers to Terror,” by Susan Maguire and Becky Spratford
Whalefall, by Daniel Kraus
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, by Aron Ralston (127 Hours) 
The Martian, by Andy Weir
Small Spaces, by Katherine Arden
Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories, by Dan SaSuWeh Jones, illus. by Weshoyot Alvitre
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, by Alvin Schwartz, illus. by Stephen Gammell
A Small Zombie Problem, by K. G. Campbell, illus. by the author
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Episode 28: Summer Scares 2023!

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Episode 28: Summer Scares 2023!

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