Shelf Care, Episode #10: Pandemic-Induced Programming Pivot
Kansas City Public Library’s Kaite Stover and Crystal Faris talk to Susan Maguire about how they moved author events and youth programming online, how screen fatigue and the digital divide affected them, and what lessons they’re taking with them for post-COVID programs. Then audio editor Heather Booth talks to the Best Patrons Ever, aka her husband and kids, about their audiobook plans for the 40-plus hour drive to Yosemite.*
Here’s what we talked about:
Rainy Day Books in Kansas City
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics, by Bruce Goldfarb
Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country, by B. J. Hollars
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
A Night Divided, by Jennifer A. Nielsen and read by Kate Simses
Stef Soto, Taco Queen, by Jennifer Torres
Song for a Whale, by Lynne Kelly and read by Abigail Revasch
Middle School’s a Drag, You Better Werk! by Greg Howard and read by Michael Crouch.
★ Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds and read by Jason Reynolds
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley and read by Jayne Entwistle
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen and read by Emilia Fox
Sealand: The True Story of the World’s Most Stubborn Micronation, by Dylan Taylor-Lehman and read by Patrick Lawlor
Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling and read by Jim Dale
★ We’re Not from Here, by Geoff Rodkey and read by Dani Martineck
★ Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11, by James Donovan and read by Allan Robertson
Once Upon a Marigold, by Jean Ferris and read by Carrington Macduffie
Words on Fire, by Jennifer Nielsen and read by Kathleen McInerney
*Heather’s update on her family’s vacation listening: “We ended up listening to Song for a Whale, but still haven’t finished it. I think I’m going to put it on during ‘remote learning’ breaktime since we never drive anywhere anymore.” Best laid plans, amirite?