Kesha Powell and Amen Emile have been working at BPL for over 20 years in various roles, from public safety to circulation manager. Thanks to BPL's Pathways to Leadership program—a scholarship and mentorship initiative designed to diversify the field of librarianship—they will soon be fully-certified librarians.  Read the transcript and find further resources here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/pathways-leadership 

Kesha Powell and Amen Emile have been working at BPL for over 20 years in various roles, from public safety to circulation manager. Thanks to BPL's Pathways to Leadership program—a scholarship and mentorship initiative designed to diversify the field of librarianship—they will soon be fully-certified librarians.  Read the transcript and find further resources here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/pathways-leadership" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/pathways-leadership</a>

Pathways to Leadership

If you ask Hannah Jean what would be her greatest wish, she will say running Brooklyn Public Library. Last month, she got to do just that.  Read the transcript and check out our book list: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/meet-our-almost-six-year 

If you ask Hannah Jean what would be her greatest wish, she will say running Brooklyn Public Library. Last month, she got to do just that.  Read the transcript and check out our book list: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/meet-our-almost-six-year" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/meet-our-almost-six-year</a>

Meet Our (Almost) Six-Year-Old Librarian

Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that social media and smart phones just aren't working for them.     Read the transcript and check out additional resources here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/teens-are-offline    Listen to Undiscarded: Stories of New York: https://undiscarded.org/

Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that social media and smart phones just aren't working for them.  Read the transcript and check out additional resources here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/teens-are-offline" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/teens-are-offline</a>    Listen to Undiscarded: Stories of New York: <a href="https://undiscarded.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://undiscarded.org/</a>

The Teens are Offline

Asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York City. We look at how one faith-based organization is responding to the continuing crisis in the hope that these personal narratives offer a window into the experience of migrants in Brooklyn today. For a transcript of this episode in English and links to resources, visit: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/seeking-asylum 

Asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York City. We look at how one faith-based organization is responding to the continuing crisis in the hope that these personal narratives offer a window into the experience of migrants in Brooklyn today. For a transcript of this episode in English and links to resources, visit: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/seeking-asylum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/seeking-asylum</a>

Seeking Asylum

Este episodio es sobre los solicitantes de asilo en la ciudad de Nueva York. Estamos compartiendo estas narrativas personales con la esperanza de que escucharlas devuelva la humanidad a esta crisis.  Para leer el episodio en inglés y más recursos: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/buscando-asilo 

Este episodio es sobre los solicitantes de asilo en la ciudad de Nueva York. Estamos compartiendo estas narrativas personales con la esperanza de que escucharlas devuelva la humanidad a esta crisis.  Para leer el episodio en inglés y más recursos: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/buscando-asilo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/buscando-asilo</a>

Buscando Asilo

Last year, New York City began to see an increase in the number of migrants seeking asylum. The library is a small part of the city-wide response to help those seeking refuge. This episode, we'll talk about library and city efforts with Manuel Castro, the Commissioner at the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs. Links to resources and the epiosde transcript are here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/place-refuge 

Last year, New York City began to see an increase in the number of migrants seeking asylum. The library is a small part of the city-wide response to help those seeking refuge. This episode, we'll talk about library and city efforts with Manuel Castro, the Commissioner at the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs. Links to resources and the epiosde transcript are here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/place-refuge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/place-refuge</a>

A Place of Refuge

Did you know there are some public libraries that loan out snowshoes? And cement mixers? And Santa suits? This episode, we try to calculate what your public library is worth, and ask how you can give back to support public libraries.    Read the transcript and find more resources here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/whats-your-library-worth

Did you know there are some public libraries that loan out snowshoes? And cement mixers? And Santa suits? This episode, we try to calculate what your public library is worth, and ask how you can give back to support public libraries. Read the transcript and find more resources here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/whats-your-library-worth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/whats-your-library-worth</a>

What's Your Library Worth?

With tablets, Legos, and coding, these fourteen teams from library branches across Brooklyn met at Central Library to compete in the final championship of Brooklyn Robotics League — resulting in what is surely one of our loudest stories ever.  Read a transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/go-robots-go 

With tablets, Legos, and coding, these fourteen teams from library branches across Brooklyn met at Central Library to compete in the final championship of Brooklyn Robotics League — resulting in what is surely one of our loudest stories ever.  Read a transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/go-robots-go" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/go-robots-go</a>

Go, Robots, Go!

We love love at the library, so for Valentine's Day this year, we're devoting the episode Romance Novels! We'll learn how Romance covers hint at what's between them, and chat with writer Nichole Perkins about how the genre is diversifying. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/happily-ever-after 

We love love at the library, so for Valentine's Day this year, we're devoting the episode Romance Novels! We'll learn how Romance covers hint at what's between them, and chat with writer Nichole Perkins about how the genre is diversifying. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/happily-ever-after" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/happily-ever-after</a>

Happily Ever After

La Hora Mágica has been the heart of Sunset Park’s storytime programming for a decade now, highlighting songs and stories in Spanish and English for speakers of all different languages. Read the transcript here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/la-hora-m%C3%A1gica 

La Hora Mágica has been the heart of Sunset Park’s storytime programming for a decade now, highlighting songs and stories in Spanish and English for speakers of all different languages. Read the transcript here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/la-hora-m%C3%A1gica" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/la-hora-m%C3%A1gica</a>

La Hora Mágica

Brooklyn has so many stories to tell, and a lot of them start at the library. Every other week, “Borrowed” brings you stories that start here and take you somewhere new. We're talking to people starting businesses, finding their roots, playing Dungeons &amp; Dragons, creating community—and of course, borrowing books! Brought to you by Brooklyn Public Library.

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Borrowed

It’s not an uncommon experience to be unstably housed in this country. From Brooklyn to San Francisco, communities often turn to public libraries for valuable information, social services and for a safe and comfortable place to be. This episode, we listen to stories of patrons experiencing homelessness, and ask how the library could be better when it comes to creating a sense of home for everyone.     Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/getting-home

It’s not an uncommon experience to be unstably housed in this country. From Brooklyn to San Francisco, communities often turn to public libraries for valuable information, social services and for a safe and comfortable place to be. This episode, we listen to stories of patrons experiencing homelessness, and ask how the library could be better when it comes to creating a sense of home for everyone.   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/getting-home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/getting-home</a>

Getting Home

Four hundred years later, this country has yet to reckon with the legacy of slavery. And that is no less true for Brooklyn. This episode, we’re taking a cue from The 1619 Project and telling important stories about the struggle for freedom, from a young girl  “auctioned”  at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Heights’s Weeksville as a site of resistance and power before the Civil War.     Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/free-brooklyn

Four hundred years later, this country has yet to reckon with the legacy of slavery. And that is no less true for Brooklyn. This episode, we’re taking a cue from The 1619 Project and telling important stories about the struggle for freedom, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Heights’s Weeksville as a site of resistance and power before the Civil War.   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/free-brooklyn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/free-brooklyn</a>

Free Brooklyn

“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” So goes the quote from librarian Jo Godwin. From Dr. Seuss to kosher books to Drag Queen Story Hour, this episode will explore what it means to challenge censorship, and what happens when patrons disagree with content in the library.   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/something-offend-everyone 

“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” So goes the quote from librarian Jo Godwin. From Dr. Seuss to kosher books to Drag Queen Story Hour, this episode will explore what it means to challenge censorship, and what happens when patrons disagree with content in the library. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/something-offend-everyone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/something-offend-everyone</a>

Something to Offend Everyone

Perhaps Brooklyn’s most iconic neighborhood is Bedford-Stuyvesant. The tree-lined streets and grand brownstones have been here for over 150 years, while the Brooklynites who call those brownstones home are constantly changing. In this episode, we tell the story of this neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in different ways: activist Hattie Carthan, writer Paule Marshall, and novelist Naomi Jackson.     Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/blocks-and-brownstones

Perhaps Brooklyn’s most iconic neighborhood is Bedford-Stuyvesant. The tree-lined streets and grand brownstones have been here for over 150 years, while the Brooklynites who call those brownstones home are constantly changing. In this episode, we tell the story of this neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in different ways: activist Hattie Carthan, writer Paule Marshall, and novelist Naomi Jackson.    Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/blocks-and-brownstones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/blocks-and-brownstones</a>

Blocks and Brownstones

We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ask what happens to library books when they get too old. Finally, we take a trip to East Harlem, where one sanitation worker spent 30 years creating an archive of New Yorkers' trash.    Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/throwing-it-out

We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ask what happens to library books when they get too old. Finally, we take a trip to East Harlem, where one sanitation worker spent 30 years creating an archive of New Yorkers' trash.   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/throwing-it-out" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/throwing-it-out</a>

Throwing It Out

 At the edge of Brooklyn, there’s a beach covered with glass bottles, nylon stockings, rusting kitchen appliances, and decaying batteries. The trash didn’t float here, though. It’s eroding from a poorly-covered landfill. We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy,  where the local Civil Rights Movement took on a surprising enemy: garbage collection.  Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/our-garbage-ourselves 

At the edge of Brooklyn, there’s a beach covered with glass bottles, nylon stockings, rusting kitchen appliances, and decaying batteries. The trash didn’t float here, though. It’s eroding from a poorly-covered landfill. We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, where the local Civil Rights Movement took on a surprising enemy: garbage collection. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/our-garbage-ourselves" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/our-garbage-ourselves</a>

Our Garbage, Ourselves

To ring in the new year, take a dive into the stories of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club. We hear from voices from across New York City—a cop speaking openly about his wife's drug addiction, recent Russian immigrants looking for tradition, and a mother mourning her daughter's death—who all have their own reasons for jumping into the freezing ocean every Sunday.     Read the transcript here:  https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/plunging-new-year

To ring in the new year, take a dive into the stories of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club. We hear from voices from across New York City—a cop speaking openly about his wife's drug addiction, recent Russian immigrants looking for tradition, and a mother mourning her daughter's death—who all have their own reasons for jumping into the freezing ocean every Sunday.    Read the transcript here:  <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/plunging-new-year" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/plunging-new-year</a>

Plunging into the New Year

There’s something about Brooklyn that makes you want to write. “Everything is alive here,” says poet Mahogany L. Browne. And thank goodness we have writers to capture that. In this episode, we share an interview with Mahogany Browne and Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang, plus a story about the classic novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.    Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/writer-grows-brooklyn 

There’s something about Brooklyn that makes you want to write. “Everything is alive here,” says poet Mahogany L. Browne. And thank goodness we have writers to capture that. In this episode, we share an interview with Mahogany Browne and Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang, plus a story about the classic novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/writer-grows-brooklyn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/writer-grows-brooklyn</a>

A Writer Grows in Brooklyn

Andrew Carnegie has a classic rags-to-riches story: an immigrant turned steel magnate who financed the construction of over 2,500 public library buildings worldwide, including 21 in Brooklyn. But, his business and labor policies often hurt the very people his libraries served. As one Carnegie steel worker said in 1900:  “After  working 12 hours, how can a man go to a library?”  We dig into Carnegie’s complicated legacy, with a special appearance from the Bowery Boys! Listen to their companion episode here: http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2020/01/andrew-carnegie-and-new-yorks-public-libraries-how-a-gilded-age-gift-transformed-america.html   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/carnegies-legacy

Andrew Carnegie has a classic rags-to-riches story: an immigrant turned steel magnate who financed the construction of over 2,500 public library buildings worldwide, including 21 in Brooklyn. But, his business and labor policies often hurt the very people his libraries served. As one Carnegie steel worker said in 1900: “After working 12 hours, how can a man go to a library?” We dig into Carnegie’s complicated legacy, with a special appearance from the Bowery Boys! Listen to their companion episode here: <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boweryboyshistory.com%2F2020%2F01%2Fandrew-carnegie-and-new-yorks-public-libraries-how-a-gilded-age-gift-transformed-america.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7Cd25cc164b94f47835b2508d7a05e9873%7C1e5ca0decfdb489aa28403ee50d0c0d4%7C0%7C0%7C637154200479566536&amp;sdata=HNuoN3XxKyD2fbwbswcP%2Brtu6RZ08y8KIl6ZVFQMEDI%3D&amp;reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2020/01/andrew-carnegie-and-new-yorks-public-libraries-how-a-gilded-age-gift-transformed-america.html</a>   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/carnegies-legacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/carnegies-legacy</a>

Carnegie's Legacy

Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I want to know how I can be happy,” and learn about how libraries are keeping up with the needs of the community.   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/across-reference-desk 

Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I want to know how I can be happy,” and learn about how libraries are keeping up with the needs of the community. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/across-reference-desk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/across-reference-desk</a>

Across the Reference Desk

Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we listen to inspiring stories of recent asylees, the case for more bilingual librarians, and what the library means when we say “American.”   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/new-americans 

Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we listen to inspiring stories of recent asylees, the case for more bilingual librarians, and what the library means when we say “American.” Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/new-americans" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/new-americans</a>

New Americans

Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back to the library and started to create spaces just for teens. We’ll listen in on a Dungeons &amp; Dragons game in Mill Basin, a teen party at Central, and learn how video games are changing the library.   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/teens-take-over 

Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back to the library and started to create spaces just for teens. We’ll listen in on a Dungeons &amp; Dragons game in Mill Basin, a teen party at Central, and learn how video games are changing the library. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/teens-take-over" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/teens-take-over</a>

Teens Take Over

It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a librarian who is pretty much unknown today. We're taking a field trip to a library truck in the Flatlands, a story time at Central, and to Brownsville in 1914...   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/for-kids-sake 

It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a librarian who is pretty much unknown today. We're taking a field trip to a library truck in the Flatlands, a story time at Central, and to Brownsville in 1914... Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/for-kids-sake" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/for-kids-sake</a>

For Kids' Sake

Sometimes, in the wake of natural disasters, the library becomes an information center, a shelter and a community space. We travel to Coney Island, Red Hook, and Puerto Rico to learn about how neighbors come together after a storm, and how libraries can help.   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/weathering-storm 

Sometimes, in the wake of natural disasters, the library becomes an information center, a shelter and a community space. We travel to Coney Island, Red Hook, and Puerto Rico to learn about how neighbors come together after a storm, and how libraries can help. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/weathering-storm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/weathering-storm</a>

Weathering the Storm

From “the most expensive pigeon roost in the world” to one of the world’s most unique libraries, Brooklyn’s Central Library has many stories to tell. We’ll dive into the history of Central Library, and bring you stories of small businesses, fashion shows, and one patron’s path from homelessness to determined author.   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/work-progress 

From “the most expensive pigeon roost in the world” to one of the world’s most unique libraries, Brooklyn’s Central Library has many stories to tell. We’ll dive into the history of Central Library, and bring you stories of small businesses, fashion shows, and one patron’s path from homelessness to determined author. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/work-progress" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/work-progress</a>

Work in Progress

 We’re getting in your ears to tell you about our first ever live recording of  Borrowed!  It’s free, at 5pm on Sunday, January 26 at Union Hall, as a part of Brooklyn Podcast Festival  (event  details here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/borrowed-live-tickets-84560078471).    And, we’re collaborating with The Bowery Boys on an episode about Andrew Carnegie’s complicated legacy. That will come out this Friday, January 24 on our feed and theirs  (http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/bowery-boys-first/bowery-boys-podcast).

We’re getting in your ears to tell you about our first ever live recording of Borrowed! It’s free, at 5pm on Sunday, January 26 at Union Hall, as a part of Brooklyn Podcast Festival (event details here: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/borrowed-live-tickets-84560078471" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/borrowed-live-tickets-84560078471</a>). And, we’re collaborating with The Bowery Boys on an episode about Andrew Carnegie’s complicated legacy. That will come out this Friday, January 24 on our feed and theirs (<a href="http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/bowery-boys-first/bowery-boys-podcast" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/bowery-boys-first/bowery-boys-podcast</a>).

Librarians, Live!

Earth Day is here, but a lot of us are inside. On this episode of Borrowed, we gather sounds of the natural world from the stoops and parks of Brooklyn, and we look back at the first Earth Day fifty years ago, and ask what it means for us today.    Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/fifty-years

Earth Day is here, but a lot of us are inside. On this episode of Borrowed, we gather sounds of the natural world from the stoops and parks of Brooklyn, and we look back at the first Earth Day fifty years ago, and ask what it means for us today.   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/fifty-years" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/fifty-years</a>

In Fifty Years

The census doesn’t just distribute representatives in congress and billions of dollars in federal funds—it determines city bus routes, how many garbage cans are on your block, and whether a grocery store opens in your neighborhood. Filling out the census is one of the most powerful ways to use your voice. Read the transcript here and our show notes here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/get-counted 

The census doesn’t just distribute representatives in congress and billions of dollars in federal funds—it determines city bus routes, how many garbage cans are on your block, and whether a grocery store opens in your neighborhood. Filling out the census is one of the most powerful ways to use your voice. Read the transcript here and our show notes here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/get-counted" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/get-counted</a>

Get Counted

Working from home? Kids at home? The library is here for you! We’ve got virtual resources galore to help you keep a healthy social distance during the coronavirus outbreak.    Check out eBooks &amp; Audiobooks: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/borrow/ebooks-audiobooks    Attend virtual story time every day at 11am and 2pm, join our virtual Dungeons &amp; Dragons for teens, and so much more:  https://www.bklynlibrary.org/event-series/virtual-programming    Read the latest newspapers and magazines online for free, and learn from home, whether you’re a kid or an adult!  https://www.bklynlibrary.org/learning-resources

Working from home? Kids at home? The library is here for you! We’ve got virtual resources galore to help you keep a healthy social distance during the coronavirus outbreak.    Check out eBooks &amp; Audiobooks: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/borrow/ebooks-audiobooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/borrow/ebooks-audiobooks</a>   Attend virtual story time every day at 11am and 2pm, join our virtual Dungeons &amp; Dragons for teens, and so much more: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/event-series/virtual-programming" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/event-series/virtual-programming</a>   Read the latest newspapers and magazines online for free, and learn from home, whether you’re a kid or an adult! <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/learning-resources" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/learning-resources</a>

Social Distancing? We're Here For You!

Listen to three Brooklynites talk about their personal connections to places across the borough. We’ll hear from a Walt Whitman scholar at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, an LGBTQ activist in Brighton Beach, and one of Biggie’s biggest fans on a block in Clinton Hill.    Read our transcript here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/three-brooklyn-stories

Listen to three Brooklynites talk about their personal connections to places across the borough. We’ll hear from a Walt Whitman scholar at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, an LGBTQ activist in Brighton Beach, and one of Biggie’s biggest fans on a block in Clinton Hill.    Read our transcript here: <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/three-brooklyn-stories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/three-brooklyn-stories</a>

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