In the first segment, Chad and Heather discuss the history of public libraries and then focus in on the history of Westlake Porter Public Library (WPPL) in particular.
In the second segment, we play Stump the Librarian. This is where we take patron questions about what to read next and put them to the Readers Advisory Librarian to see what she'll come up with.
Here are the books Erin and Aaron discussed on this episode:
Q: What would you recommend if I loved Book Lovers by Emily Henry?
A: Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson / By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate
Q: What would you recommend for a reader who loves science, but doesn't have a deep science background and doesn't want anything to technical and complicated?
A: Anything by Randall Munroe. His author talk (from January 2023) is on our website. His books, What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions and the sequel, What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions are great reads.
Other authors (and books) to check out include; Mary Roach (author of Stiff, Packing for Mars, Grunt, and Fuzz), Caitlin Doughty (Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs), and Sam Kean (The Disappearing Spoon).