All Pieces for Brooklyn Public Library
Dyker Heights is a destination this time of year, with houses decked out in lights drawing visitors from all around the world. And inside Dyker Lib...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 10:42
This Thanksgiving, meet the people who run Central Library's café and get a peak into their kitchen on the Library's third floor, where fourteen st...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 12:41
Will you visit your library this summer? To kick off a season of reading, we thought we'd have some fun! How many Brooklyn and library trivia quest...
- Added: Jun 27, 2022
- Length: 28:49
Book bans and challenges have been on the rise in the past few years. When BPL launched a free eCard to give out-of-state teens access to our eBook...
- Added: Jun 13, 2022
- Length: 25:25
From defunct recording technology to vinyl’s comeback, we've been through a lot of media changes over the last 125 years. And we're still changing!...
Bought by KVNF, KGNU Community Radio, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 25:47
- Purchases: 3
In 1996, we were one of the first libraries in the nation to connect our patrons to the internet. Today, we're extending our WiFi reach down the bl...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 22:47
- Purchases: 1
A lot had changed since Melvil Dewey came up with a classification system to organize all known and not-yet-known knowledge into a string of number...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 24:50
- Purchases: 1
Libraries weren't always located in their own stately buildings. Many of our branches used to operate out of pharmacies, laundry rooms, storefronts...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 26:16
- Purchases: 1
On October 5th, 2021, all three public library systems in New York City eliminated late fines. The change was 125 years in the making, and it made ...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2021
- Length: 24:18
- Purchases: 1
The story of Canarsie in reverse, from the racial unrest in the 1990s, to the anti-integration school boycotts in the 1960s, the community of Canar...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 26:41
In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 18:31
Brooklyn is constantly changing. This episode takes a look at the changes on just one street in one neighborhood: Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park, whi...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 27:02
At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:17
Ingrid Douglas never finished high school as a teenager. When she started looking for a better job at age sixty, she found not having a degree was ...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 25:16
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
