Season 2 Preview: Picking The Story Back Up

This is A Little Too Quiet, the Ferndale Library Podcast. This is a podcast produced in-house by staff inside the Ferndale Library. And from episode 1 onward, we wanted to bring you exclusive content, like author interviews, insights into library resources and services, and the history of our library. Along with that, just the nuanced narrative of how this library, as an archetype for all libraries, is evolving and adapting the ways in which it serves its community.

But circumstances have caused us to have a considerable pause between seasons. You know those circumstances as well as us - the pandemic led to a necessary shutdown that required as many of us as possible to shelter at home and stop the spread of the coronavirus. Our library's doors were closed, but we remained open to a few extents--chief among them being, that we were still doing everything we could to keep our community connected to information, to helpful resources, to enriching materials, and to virtual programs and video events-- Of course we could not interact with our patrons without the assistance of a laptop or smartphone through video conferencing software, and of course we couldn't hand our patrons print books or physical materials in person, but we could continue to provide access to 10s of thousands of titles that are collected as digital resources through apps like hoopla, libby, rbdigital and kanopy--along with countless databases and video tutorial services.
we missed our patrons. we missed our community. we missed making podcasts.

We're once again aspiring to create compelling content for the episodes featured on this show, as well as capturing exclusive and engaging conversations about the role that librarians and library staff can serve to their community. We'll be exploring a mini-series on Information Literacy, particularly news literacy--talking to professors, journalists and librarians about the impacts of disinformation and the pitfalls of misinformation on the internet. What can we do to be more discerning news consumers as individuals? We'll talk about that.

We'll also be talking to more local authors, more local artists, as well as more behind the scenes, chats with librarians detailing their experiences and their ideas for engaging programming.

For four months, having been closed for the sake of safety, libraries everywhere were quiet....quieter than they've been in at least two decades. This podcast's name continues to acknowledge the fact that a library is no longer a place where you feel apprehensive to talk. A library is a place where you can get peace of mind, where you can tap into a sense of feeling part of a community, and where you can find reliable information, diverse entertainment and culture, and so much more.

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We'll be picking the story back up where we left off, soon, with Season 2!