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

In this episode, Jill and Josh dream about the services they wish they could offer to library users.

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Featured Resource: Library Meeting Room

Josh has worked as a circulation assistant for about nine months. In this episode, he talks with Jill about how what he actually does compares to what he thought he would be doing.

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Featured Resource: Virtual Reality (VR) Headset to Use at the Library

Other Resources: Connections Episode 7: "It's Changing Me!"

Josh wanted to talk about games. Jill rarely plays games. The conversation turns to virtual reality (VR) and Jill begging for help to become the first public library with a holodeck.

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Featured Resource: Passport Application Acceptance

Other Resources: Travel.State.Gov

Mark Loewen, LPC and founder of LaunchPad Counseling, talks with Jill about counseling. He answer questions about the difference between counseling and therapy, when someone should go to counseling, what to do about feeling embarrassed about wanting therapy, and more.

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Featured Resource: A to Z Food America

Other Resources:

• All Therapist
• LaunchPad Counseling
• Psychology Today Therapist Directory
• What Does a Princess Really Look Like? by Mark Loewen

One day, Josh asked Jill, "Are movies important in life?" This episode is their conversation in response to that question.

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Featured Resource: RB Digital e-Audiobooks

Other Resources:

• Casablanca
• Dr. Who
• Eragon (Book, Movie)
• Jurassic Park (Book, Movie)
• Kitchen Nightmares (USA, UK)
• Live PD
• The Lord of the Rings (Book, Movie)
• Mad Max Fury Road
• Midsomer Murders
• Rebecca (Book, Movie)
• Star Trek
• Star Wars

One day, Jill asked Josh, "Have you ever read a book that made you wonder what it would be like to live a different type of life?" This episode is the conversation that resulted from that question.

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Featured Resource: RBDigital Magazines

Other Resources:

• A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
• Hildafolk series by Luke Pearson
• Interview with Mike Lanza, author of Playborhood
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Theodore Boone by John Grisham
• Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed

Jill and Josh both play musical instruments. One day, Jill asked Josh, "Is music a life skill or a nice-to-have?" This episode contains their thoughts on the answer to that question.

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Featured Resource: Qello Concerts

One day, Josh asked Jill, "Is there a book you had for assigned reading in school that you didn't think anything about at the time, but it has an impact on your life now?" In this episode, Jill and Josh talk about this question and go on at least three tangents.

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Featured Resource: The Library Board of Trustees

Other Resources:

• Beowulf (829.3 Beo)
• Connections Episode 43: "I Like Them Short"
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (F Dum)
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller (CD 812.54 Mil)
• The Crucible (1957) - Movie
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven (F Cra)
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973) - Movie
• Grendel by John Gardner
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (F Haw)
• The Scarlet Letter (1934) - Movie
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (F Dum)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (F Ste)

Library directors have similar jobs, but the specifics can be different, depending on the library. In this episode, Jay Stephens, library director for the Halifax County South Boston Public Library System, starts out talking with Jill about what a typical work day is like, but then they end up talking about the things library directors talk about when they're just chatting.

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Featured Resource: 

• ProCitizen
• Pronunciator

Other Resources:

• Ask a Manager (Alison Green)
• Halifax County South Boston Public Library System
• PCI Webinars (Andrew Sanderbeck)
• The Wanderings of Director Chat: Episode #54

What does a Commonwealth's Attorney do? What's the difference between an attorney and a lawyer? How accurately does Law and Order portray trials? In this episode, Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney John Bateman, Esq. answers these questions and more as he talks about his job, work-life balance, what happens in dime-a-dozen court cases, and more.

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Featured Resource: Gale Legal Forms