Connections: A Podcast of the James L. Hamner Public Library

Jill starts year 3 of Connections by reading "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Jill starts year 3 of Connections by reading "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Jill starts year 3 of Connections by reading "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Jill explains some of the thoughts behind decisions the library made for Phase 2 of their reopening.

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Featured Resource: Marshall Bullock Summer Reading Program

Other Resources: Virginia Phase 2 Guidelines for Business Sectors

Josh teaches Jill about the Farmville Area Bus and how to use public transportation.

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Featured Resource: The Friends of the James L. Hamner Public Library

Other Resources:

• Connections Episode #108: Matt Sandbank's Shadow Factory
• Farmville Area Bus

Matt Sandbank, a professional puppeteer from Matt Sandbank's Shadow Factory, talks with Jill about shadow puppets and poetry.

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Featured Resource: Marshall Bullock Summer Reading Program

Other Resources:

• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World
• Masters of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut
• Matt Sandbank's Shadow Factory
• Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
• Richard Bradshaw, Puppeteer

Jill talks with Marsha Goodman-Wood from the band Marsha and the Positrons about neuroscience, music, and more.

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Featured Resource: World Book Online

Other Resources:

• Connections Episode #58: "A Talk with Author Erin Teagan"
• "How Caffeine Hooks, Hurts, and Helps Us" from The Art of Manliness
• "The Lost Pleasures of Group Singing" from The Art of Manliness
• Miss Nina: Early Learning Through Music
• "The Philosophy and Practice of Building a Fire the Scandinavian Way" from The Art of Manliness
• Regina Holliday: Artist and Medical Activist
• "The Tiny Habits that Change Everything" from The Art of Manliness

Photo Credit: Joe Noyes Photography

Jill reads The Inconsiderate Waiter by James M. Barrie.

Featured Resource: The Marshall Bullock Summer Reading Program

Other Resources: 

• The Inconsiderate Waiter by James M. Barrie
• Project Gutenberg

Unabridged Podcast joins Jill to talk about modern books that deal with similar themes as classic school reading list titles.

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Featured Resource: NoveList

Other Resources:

• Unabridged
• Unabridged: Bookish Faves

Books Mentioned

• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brenan Kiely
• All American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney
• The Bridge Home by T. V. Padma
• Caleb and Kit by Beth Vrabel
• Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings
• Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth
• Frankly in Love by David Yoon 
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
• Harbor Me by Jaqueline Woodson
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
• Illegal by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, and Giovanni Rigano 
• Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday by Natalie C. Anderson
• Magisterium Series by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
• Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
• Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
• Pax by Sara Pennypacker
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
• The Rough Patch by Brian Lies
• Seeing Red by Kathryn Erskine
• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 

Jill and Josh talk about big-picture considerations that public libraries are thinking about when they reopen after COVID shutdowns.

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Featured Resource: RB Digital Magazines

Other Resources:

• American Library Association: Recommendation to close libraries to the public
• American Library Association: Thoughts on impact of pandemic
• Connections Episode #9: But I Don't Care About Privacy!
• Johns Hopkins: Classifies public libraries as low number of contacts
• Johns Hopkins: Adds context to public library classification (via Forbes)