Using our Library Voices

January marks the start for new opportunities to learn, grow, and connect with those in your community and beyond. Harris County Public Libraries is here to help with our robust programs and events. This month's spotlight features our amazing collaboration with the Society for the Performing Arts, hearing from our fantastic staff at High Meadows Branch Library, and getting insight about resources the Learning Express Library offers to help fulfill your New Year's resolutions. 

This episode was produced by Nancy Hu, hosted by Logan Tuttle, and edited by Ellen K.  

Featured voices include: Claire Williamson, Nancy Hu, Darcy Casavant, Logan Tuttle, and High Meadows Branch staff: Erica Koop, Jennifer Nandlal, Yesenia Sanchez, Sharon Simmons.

Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
www.hcpl.net

Podcast Team Members include: Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Katelyn Helberg, Beth Krippel, Alinda Mac, Mary Mink, John Schaffer,  Sadina Shawver, Dylan Smith, and Nancy Hu. 


In memory of Darcy Casavant. 

We end the year with a look back. Meet the voices behind "Using the Library Voices" podcast as they discuss all they experienced behind the scenes. 

This episode was produced by Darla Pruitt, edited by Beth Krippel, and hosted by Sadina Shawver and John Harbaugh. 

Featured staff in this episode include: John Harbaugh, Nancy Hu, Jennifer Finch , Jennifer Nandlal,  Darla Pruitt, Nicole Hindmon, and Gaby Prado.

Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
www.hcpl.net

Podcast Team Members include: Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Katelyn Helberg, Beth Krippel, Alinda Mac, Mary Mink, John Schaffer,  Sadina Shawver, Dylan Smith, and Nancy Hu. 


In memory of Darcy Casavant. 

This month on Are You Afraid of the Stacks, Jennifer and Sadina discuss navigating the holidays through horror and exploring stranger danger.

Book and Media Mentioned:  

• 12 Terrors of Christmas by John Updike, Illustrations by Edward Gorey
• The Berenstain Bears Learn about Strangers by Stan & Jan Berenstein  
• Who’s Bad and Who’s Good, Little Red Riding Hood by Steve Smallman  
• Disney’s Tangled
• Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Christmas by Melanie Watt  
• The Fun Book of Scary Stuff by Emily Jenkins  

This podcast was produced by Jennifer Nandlal and Sadina Shawver.
More books are available at www.hcpl.net

Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
www.hcpl.net

Podcast Team Members include: Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Katelyn Helberg, Beth Krippel, Alinda Mac, Mary Mink, John Schaffer,  Sadina Shawver, Dylan Smith, and Nancy Hu. 


In memory of Darcy Casavant. 

Join librarians, Jennifer, Daniel, Tony, and Margaret, to talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of fandoms and the effects they have on modern society. 

Host: Jennifer Finch, Spring Branch-Memorial Branch 

Participants:
Margaret Powell, Katy Branch
Daniel Burch, Atascocita Branch
Tony Goodwin, Clear Lake-Freeman Branch

Music is Scanglobe by Sputnik; link to license:
 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 

Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
www.hcpl.net

Podcast Team Members include: Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Katelyn Helberg, Beth Krippel, Alinda Mac, Mary Mink, John Schaffer,  Sadina Shawver, Dylan Smith, and Nancy Hu. 


In memory of Darcy Casavant. 

Honoring Native American Heritage Month with a discussion on The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline of the Georgia Bay Metis Nation of Ontario. Jennifer and Sadina talk about important themes and characters from the book and how they can lead to lifelong lessons at home.  

Media Mentioned:
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Killer of Enemies series by Joseph Bruchac 
The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

This podcast was produced by Jennifer Nandlal and Sadina Shawver.

Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
www.hcpl.net

Podcast Team Members include: Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Katelyn Helberg, Beth Krippel, Alinda Mac, Mary Mink, John Schaffer,  Sadina Shawver, Dylan Smith, and Nancy Hu. 


In memory of Darcy Casavant. 

This month, our host Logan Tuttle,  speaks to native Houstonian, award winning young adult fantasy author J.Elle, urban fantasy writer Whit McClendon, and short fiction author Isabel Yap about their writing processes.

Then we check in with Darcy and Amy Campbell about how to get your book into the library!

Find books from these authors and more on our website at www.hcpl.net/

Follow J.Elle @AuthorJElle for more information about her Wings of Ebony series.
Follow Whit McClendon @whitmccauthor for more information about his Fire of the Jidaan series. 
Follow Isabel Yap @visyap for more of her short stories

This episode was edited by Christian Ornelas and Leif Steenson . Produced by Logan Tuttle, Nancy Hu and Darcy Casavant with original music by Bryan Kratish.

Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
www.hcpl.net

Podcast Team Members include: Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Katelyn Helberg, Beth Krippel, Alinda Mac, Mary Mink, John Schaffer,  Sadina Shawver, Dylan Smith, and Nancy Hu. 


In memory of Darcy Casavant. 

 There are groups of devoted library lovers out there working hard to improve libraries for everyone, they raise awareness of the importance of libraries to their communities, raise money to help pay for many programs in the library, and generally act as champions for libraries. These are the Friends of the Library.
Our episode celebrates FRIENDS by gathering a group of our SUPER FRIENDS.

Join our FRIEND's Group to support our library and it's programs!

Harris County Friends: www.hcfol.org

Evelyn Meador Friends: www.friendsofevelynmeador.org

Barbara Bush Library Friends: www.bblf.org

Atascocity Friends: www.foal.ws

For more information regarding how to join a friends group, visit your local library!

Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
www.hcpl.net

Podcast Team Members include: Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Katelyn Helberg, Beth Krippel, Alinda Mac, Mary Mink, John Schaffer,  Sadina Shawver, Dylan Smith, and Nancy Hu. 


In memory of Darcy Casavant. 

Are You Afraid of the Stacks is a show, where we talk about the spookier side of children’s literature. Librarians Sadina Shawver and Jennifer Nandlal break down the psychology of  horror books  and give a couple recommendations on how scary books, aren't always all about the fright. This month's discussion is all about how horror books can help children, when it comes to recognizing and setting boundaries.

Learn more about our collection by visiting www.hcpl.net and following us on social media @HarrisCountyPL 

Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
www.hcpl.net

Podcast Team Members include: Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Katelyn Helberg, Beth Krippel, Alinda Mac, Mary Mink, John Schaffer,  Sadina Shawver, Dylan Smith, and Nancy Hu. 


In memory of Darcy Casavant. 

Hello and welcome to another episode of “Using Our Library Voices”.

For those of you who like to look at an old tale through a new lens...We have FrankenStory where we dissect  old stories and then reimagine them for modern times. For this episode, we examine the Bride of Frankenstein.
Our next segment explores the origins of Zombies  and track their development in our culture through the media in which they appear!
Throughout this episode we will also feature readings from our library's Centennial Postcard project, where we given patrons a postcard with the prompt..." Tell us a true scary tale" . Our readings are from the returned postcards from citizens of Harris County.

As always find all the sources, movies and music we've listed in our catalog, available at www.hcpl.net


Credits:This episode was produced by Jennifer Nandlal.
Hosted by Sadina Shawver, with special voice acting by John Schaeffer.
Edited by Jennifer Nandlal.
With segments and dramatic retellings of your postcard submissions by Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Ellen Kaluza, Beth Krippel, Rachel Moir, and Logan Tuttle.

Music credit: Evil Makings by Halloween (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Halloween/ST_1099/EVIL_MAKINGS)
Sound effect: Lightning Strike (https://freesound.org/people/Turrus/sounds/242048/)

Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
www.hcpl.net

Podcast Team Members include: Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Katelyn Helberg, Beth Krippel, Alinda Mac, Mary Mink, John Schaffer,  Sadina Shawver, Dylan Smith, and Nancy Hu. 


In memory of Darcy Casavant. 

Thank you for joining us! This episode of Using our Library Voice, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage month through the colorful and imaginative ways the different cultures are portrayed in literature. We start off with an  "Are you Afraid of the Stacks" segment where Jennifer N. & Sadina, suggest slightly spooky books with Hispanic authors, characters and traditions  for kids.
Then we have a special guest interview with local Houston Artist, Marissa Valdez, who talks about her inspirations, projects and how she got started as an illustration in the Houston area. You can learn more about her art and projects on her website at: www.marissacvaldez.com and through her Instagram Handle at @MarissaArt

For our book recommendations, Darcy and Oscar inspired by the many colorful illustrations, recommends some beautiful picture books from different Hispanic cultures

Find the materials mentioned in this podcast:

Isabel and Her Colores go to School 

Dancing Hands

Un Elephante Se Balanceaba

Ambitious Girl

Gustavo the Shy Ghost

Ghost Squad

Find more Hispanic Heritage reads at your local library or by visiting our website at www.hcpl.net 

Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
www.hcpl.net

Podcast Team Members include: Jennifer Finch, John Harbaugh, Katelyn Helberg, Beth Krippel, Alinda Mac, Mary Mink, John Schaffer,  Sadina Shawver, Dylan Smith, and Nancy Hu. 


In memory of Darcy Casavant.