Listeners' Advisory: The San Diego Public Library Podcast

In this bonus episode, Bob hangs out with library workers Carrie Sanabria, Jeremy Davies, and Craig Wimberly, members of the San Diego Public Library's LGBTQIA+ Committee. They discuss various aspects of the committee's work, including SDPL's annual Pride Card Contest, outreach at the Pride festival, and their year-round advocacy efforts. 

• Pride 2024 @SDPL
• LGBTQIA+ Library Services
• Library Pride Card Collection
• SD Pride Festival
• Community Grand Marshall 

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this season finale, Bob catches up with Sciences Manager, Michelle Ruiz, and Mission Valley Branch Manager, Karen Reilly about library services for individuals experiencing homelessness. Bob also speaks with Aaron Basila and Gedalyahu Ben-Shimeon from the National Alliance on Mental Illness about NAMI's partnership with the Central Library.

Mental Health Services at the Central Library 

• Social Worker Intern Program

National Alliance for Mental Illness

• Connection 2 Community Clubhouse

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this episode, Bob hangs with Listeners' Advisory cohost and Library Shop Manager, Scott Ehrig-Burgess for a second installment of the pop-culture recommendation segment, Queue Time. Recommendations range from non-fiction reads, to crime shows, to marathon interview podcasts on the limits of LLMs. 

Scott's recs

• Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the "Criminal Alien" - César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández 
• 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed - Eric Klinenberg
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet - David Mitchell 
  • Shogun (Scott does NOT recommend)
• Lex Fridman - Lex Fridman Podcast
  • "Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI"

Bob's Recs

• Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection - Charles Duhigg
• The Gentlemen - Guy Ritchie
• Disgraceland with Jake Brennan 

Library Shop
Library Foundation SD Events
Prestige TV
Large Language Models
Dewey Decimal 

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this episode, Bob hangs out with staff from READ/San Diego, the city's premier literacy service. He chats with Program Administrator Nicole Settle about the program's mission and history, as well as with Coordinators Stephanie Contreras and Tim Donolon about READ's two prongs of service: Adult & Family Literacy. They also discuss the recent 35th Annual Recognition Dinner, which honors program participants, volunteer tutors, READ staff, and other advocates for literacy.

READ/San Diego 

• Virtual Services

California Library Literacy Services

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this third and final installment of our romance series, Jessica catches up with three librarians and romance enthusiasts to hear about how they got started with the genre, recommended authors and titles, and where newbies can get started.

Authors Mentioned: 

• Victoria Holt 
• Julia Quinn 
• Tessa Dare 
• Jayci Lee 
• Leah Brunner 
• Sabrina Jeffries 
• Kate Bateman 
• Kate O'Keeffe  
• Lucy Score 
• Virginia Heath 
• Johanna Lindsey 
• Jayne Ann Krentz  
  • Amanda Quick
  • Jayne Castle 
• Olivia T. Turner 
• K.C. Hart 

Books Mentioned: 

• Tears of Gold by Laurie McBain 
• Bromance Book Club series by Lyssa Kay Adams 
• Real Men Knit series by Kwana (K. M.) Jackson 
• The Long Game by Elena Armas 
• The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest 
• Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn 
• Never Fall for Your Fiancée by Virgina Heath 
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree 
• Christmas Pie by Emma Craig 
• Hidden Legacy series by Ilona Andrews 
• Psy/Changeling series by Nalini Singh

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this episode, Scott presents his third and final report on the now City Council approved Library Master Plan. Scott gives us a sneak peek into the library’s efforts to collect feedback from the community in the form of listening sessions as well as presentation highlights from the consulting firm, Group 4, that was hired to put the plan together. This is the library geekiness we’re here for!

The Library Master Plan

• Carson Block Consulting
• Group 4 Architecture, Research + Planning 

The Mind Orchestra “Awen” © 2020. 

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this episode, Bob hangs with Deputy Director of Customer Experience and Listeners' Advisory Executive Producer, Jennifer Jenkins, for a new segment titled Queue Time. Queue Time participants discuss what they're currently reading, listening to, and watching so listeners can enjoy popular culture recommendations beyond the collections of the San Diego Public Library.

Taylor Swift

• Time Magazine - Person of the Year
• Lover  - "Cruel Summer" with Jack Antonoff
• Reputation
• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution - Lance Scott Walker

Little Brother 

• The Listening
• The Minstrel Show
• May the Lord Watch: The Little Brother Story

True Detective: Night Country

• Jodi Foster
• Kali Reis

This podcast uses a sound from freesound: “record scratch” by Luffy. 

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this episode, Romance Librarian, Jessica Buck hangs with podcast host and romance author, Kelly Reynolds and podcaster, Bookstagram Bree. They discuss common tropes of the genre, spice levels, content warnings, terms, and more. *Warning, this episode contains language that is sexually explicit in nature.*

Kelly Reynolds - Boobies and Newbies
Bookstagram Bree - Categorically Romance

Authors Mentioned:

• Katee Robert
• Debbie Macomber
• Lori Foster
• Beverly Jenkins
• Katherine Garbera
• Talia Hibbert

Books Mentioned:

• Dashing Through the Snow: A Christmas Novel by Debbie Macomber
• Muscles & Monsters Book by Ashley Bennett (via LINK+)
• The Dragon's Bride by Katee Robert
• Sweet Berries by C.M. Nascosta (via LINK+)
• A Court of Thorns and Roses series (ACOTAR) By Sarah J. Maas
• I’m in Love with Mothman by Paige Lavoie
• The Dragon's Bride by Katee Robert
• A Ring to Claim Her Crown by Amanda Cinelli (via LINK+)
• The Image Project series by Katherine Garbera
• Destiny's Captive by Beverly Jenkins
• Take a Hint Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
• Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon (via LINK +)
• Falling for My Enemy (Dirty Martini Running Club Series #2) by Claire Kingsley

Mentions and terms:

• Too Stupid To Live (@tstlpodcast) hosted by Becky Feldman.
• DNF: Did Not Finish.
• Shifter romance: novels set in a world where shifters, or people who can change into different animals, exist.
• Harlequin Presents: flagship category romance of the Harlequin imprint.
• Spice: sexual content, also known as steam or smut. The spicier/steamier the book, the more explicit the sexual content is.
• Closed Door: when a sex scene develops between characters, that part of the romance does not occur on page in the book.
• Trigger/Content Warnings: highlight content which might trigger an adverse reaction (physical or emo

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this episode, cohost Scott presents his extended interview with Red Team Blues author and journalist, Cory Doctorow. They discuss a wide range of topics that include Artificial Intelligence, differentiating fables and predictions, issues of intellectual property, and absurdist potentials for technology-driven dystopias. 

Cory Doctorow’s Craphound.com

• Red Team Blues
• Little Brother 

Fortunately, the Milk - Neil Gaiman
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech - Brian Merchant

Stefano Quintarelli - SALAMI
Chat GPT - OpenAI
Electronic Frontier Foundation 

De La Soul - “De La Soul is Back. It’s a Bittersweet Victory”
Sid Vicious - “My Way”
Taylor Swift - “Why is Taylor Swift Rerecording Her Old Albums”

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this episode, Youth Services Librarian Jessica Buck chats with historian Steve Ammidown and Becca Title, owner of Meet Cute Book Shop, about the history of the romance genre. They share their personal connections to the genre, discuss its roots, and aspects of its continuing evolution. 

Jessica Buck - College-Rolando Branch Library
Steve Ammidown - RomanceHistory.com 
Becca Title - Meet Cute Book Shop

Authors Mentioned: 

• Jane Austen 
• Beverly Jenkins 
• Meg Cabot 

Books Mentioned

• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss 
• Sweet Starfire by Jayne Ann Krentz 
• Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade 
• Consort of Fire: Bound to Fire & Steel, Book One by Kit Rocha 

People and terms:

• Vivian Stephens 
• Romantasy (Romance and Fantasy)
• RomCom (Romance and Comedy)
• Sapphic (female/female or lesbian)

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.