Check This Out

By Norfolk Public Library

A podcast about books, movies, music, and all things library related.... more

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The podcast currently has 61 episodes available.

Check This Out episodes:

July 15, 2024 "I Like My iPad!"
Join Danae and Anneka as they unbox Mike Dittmer, the full time Tech Services Supervisor for our library.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
Green Lantern comic series
Iron Man comic series
Marvel movies
Star Wars movies
Call the Midwife series on PBS
Jack Ryan series (Tom Clancy)
Raise the Titanic (Clive Cussler)
1984
The Hunt for Red October
The Shawshank Redemption
https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html
Music provided by Pixabay.
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41min
July 08, 2024 "If There's Some Action, I'd Like to Know It"
Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Amy Fuxa, who works full time in our Patron Services department, and learn about her reading life.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
Little House on the Prairie series
The Long Winter
The Walk series
Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud
The Woman in Me
Dateline
Criminal Minds
Dream Like a Champion
The Help
A Beautiful Mind
The Sound of Music
Twilight
The Bear
Ulysses
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The Road
A Walk in the Woods
https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html
Music provided by Pixabay.
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40min
July 01, 2024 "If We All Knew About the Same Thing, We'd Be in Trouble"
Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down and chat with Lynn Hans, our library's full-time Administrative Assistant.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
The Cat in the Hat
Where the Wild Things Are
The Little House on the Prairie Series
It's a Long Story: My Life
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
Helter Skelter
1984
Julia
The Bible
The Red Tent
Poetry by Maya Angelou
Gone with the Wind
Game of Thrones
State of Wonder
Piglet

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.
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44min
June 24, 2024 "What Even is a Book?"
Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Emily Edmisten, who works part-time in our youth services department, and get to know more about her reading life.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
Junie B. Jones series
The Hunger Games trilogy
Coraline
Harry Potter series
The Haunting of Hill House
The Probability of Everything
My Hero Academia series
Frankenstein
The River of the Gods
Cloistered

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.
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44min
June 17, 2024 "We're Creating an Unstable Body"
Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Amy Okamoto, our full time marketing director, and get to know about her reading life. *Disclaimer: Danae misspoke in this episode. The marketing position was not created for Amy, she just applied for the advertised position and is the first to hold it!
Titles mentioned in this episode:
Fox in Socks
Charlotte's Web
On the Road
1984
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Historian
Sue Grafton's A to Z mysteries
Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series
The Three-Body Problem
The Death Gate Cycle
Dune series
The Women

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.

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39min
June 10, 2024 "It's a Huge Book Brain"
Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Emily Hilkemann, who works full-time in our patron services department, and get to know about her reading life.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
Berenstain Bear series
American Girl series: Kit and Josefina
I Must Betray You
Legends and Lattes
Last House on Needless Street
The House of the Cerulean Sea
Flash Fire
Nettle and Bone
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (TV series)
The Outsiders
A Clockwork Orange
Great Expectations
The Grapes of Wrath

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.
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56min
June 03, 2024 "Come to My House and Give My Butler Your Card "
Join Danae and Anneka as we have a conversation with Allie Zuberbier, who works part-time in our circulation department, and get to know more about her reading life.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
American Girl series
Harry Potter series
Hunger Games series
Twilight series
Bridgerton series
James
Huckleberry Finn
Middlemarch
I Cheerfully Refuse
No Two Persons
River of the Gods
Destiny of the Republic
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.
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45min
May 27, 2024 "It's Like a Cupcake"
Join Danae and Anneka as they chat with Jessica Chamberlain, the director of the Norfolk Public Library, and learn more about her reading life.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Book of Two Ways
Joyfull
Parks and Recreation
Monk
Murder She Wrote
Columbo
The Princess Bride
Frankenstein
The Lincoln Highway
Table for Two

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming
https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.
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41min
May 20, 2024 Bonus Episode: Summer Reading Challenge for Adults
Join Danae as she sits down with Anneka Ramirez and Emily Hilkemann from the Patron Services department as they talk about "The Adventure Begins" 2024 Summer Reading Program and recommend a lot of titles to get you excited about reading!
Titles mentioned in this episode:
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
The Guncle Abroad
The Guncle
Just For the Summer
Part of Your World
Yours Truly
The Surviving Sky
Sun of Blood and Ruin
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Black Sun
The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex: the self-proclaimed greatest dragon in the multiverse
The Magicians
The Middling Affliction
The River
The Covenant of Water
Cutting for Stone
The Poisonwood Bible
Tom Lake
The Ministry of Time
You Are Here
Long Island

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/library-news/summer-reading-challenge-sign-ups-now-open!.html

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33min
May 20, 2024 Bonus Episode: Summer Reading Challenge for Youth
Join Danae as she sits down with Whitney Porn and Jessie Roberts from the Youth Services department as they talk about "The Adventure Begins" 2024 Summer Reading Program and recommend a lot of titles to get you excited about reading!
Titles mentioned in this episode:
More Than Peach
A Rover's Story
Roxie Loves Adventure
Book's Big Adventure
Zelda's Big Adventure
Adventure Annie Goes to Kindergarten
CeCe Loves Science and Adventure
Daddy's Back-to-School Shopping Adventure
Brightstorm: a sky-ship adventure
Billy and the Giant Adventure
The Adventure is Now
The Series of Unfortunate Events
Peak
Stormbreaker series
Percy Jackson series
The Hunger Games series
Partly Cloudy
Ahoy
The Wrong Book
And Then, Boom!
Max in the House of Spies
The One and Only Family
Invisible
Snowglobe
Beach Cute
Such Charming Liars
Kill Her Twice

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/library-news/summer-reading-challenge-sign-ups-now-open!.html

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/library-news/golden-sower-kid-fest-is-may-31!.html

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29min

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