"Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Series produced by Brooklyn Public Library

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Brooklyn has so many stories to tell, and a lot of them start at the library. Brooklyn Public Library's flagship podcast, “Borrowed,” brings you stories that start here and take you somewhere new. We're talking to people starting businesses, finding their roots, playing Dungeons & Dragons, creating community—and of course, borrowing books!

Brooklyn has so many stories to tell, and a lot of them start at the library. Brooklyn Public Library's flagship podcast, “Borrowed,” brings you stories that start here and take you somewhere new. We're talking to people starting businesses, finding their roots, playing Dungeons & Dragons, creating community—and of course, borrowing books!


50 Pieces

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Good News
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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It’s been a rough year. So, we gathered all the good news we could find to brighten your podcast feed. Hear kids read to a therapy dog, a library l...

Bought by WCNY and WMPG


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 25:16
  • Purchases: 2
Rekindling from Burnout
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Burnout from work is something a lot of us are thinking about right now. It's been on the minds of librarians, too. We talk to a group of library w...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 25:09
  • Purchases: 1
Showing Up
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Our work in the correctional facilities in New York City didn't stop during the pandemic. We talked with the Justice Initiatives team at BPL to hea...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 26:38
Secret Lives of Librarians
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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What do librarians do all day? When they're not planning programs or working the reference desk, these librarians are also obscure trivia players, ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jan 06, 2021
  • Length: 14:44
  • Purchases: 1
Storytime Anytime
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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This episode, we hear Drag Queen Cholula Lemon read Super Satya Saves the Day by Raakhee Mirchandani, and we visit BPL's wildly popular Tibetan lan...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2021
  • Length: 20:08
Marching Onward
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 22:24
  • Purchases: 2
Montgomery to East New York
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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We dig into the history of a once-unacknowledged African burial ground in East New York, Brooklyn, and ask how a new library branch can honor that ...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 33:36
Votes for Women
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...

Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 2
On Passing
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 32:46
  • Purchases: 1
Missing Them
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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A special episode, created in partnership with Queens Memory and the online newspaper The CITY, on grief and mourning during the COVID-19 pandemic,...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 23:17
Stories from the Pandemic
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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In an unprecedented time of stress and resilience, many Brooklynites are at the front lines of responding to the coronavirus crisis, and many more ...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCNY


  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 2
In Fifty Years
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Earth Day is here, but a lot of us are inside. On this episode of Borrowed, we gather sounds of the natural world from the stoops and parks of Broo...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 32:47
  • Purchases: 1
A Folklorist for the Seven Million
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
In 1943, Brooklyn Public Library launched its first radio program, in partnership with WNYC. “Folk Songs for the Seven Million,” written and produc...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 20:19
Get Counted
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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The census doesn’t just distribute representatives in congress and billions of dollars in federal funds—it determines city bus routes, how many gar...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 33:11
Social Distancing? We're Here For You!
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Working from home? Kids at home? The library is here for you! We’ve got virtual resources galore to help you keep a healthy social distance during ...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 22:25
Carnegie's Legacy
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Andrew Carnegie has a classic rags-to-riches story: an immigrant turned steel magnate who financed the construction of over 2,500 public library bu...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 31:06
  • Purchases: 1
A Writer Grows in Brooklyn
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
In this episode, we share an interview with Mahogany Browne and Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang, plus a story about the classic novel A Tree Grow...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 31:58
Something to Offend Everyone
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” So goes the quote from librarian Jo Godwin. From Dr. Seuss to kosher books to ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 24:17
Weathering the Storm
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Sometimes, in the wake of natural disasters, the library becomes an information center, a shelter and a community space. We travel to Coney Island,...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 22:18
  • Purchases: 1
Across the Reference Desk
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 20:01
  • Purchases: 1

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