214. PALACES FOR THE PEOPLE: the future of public libraries

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hello! Libraries are about far more than borrowing books. We’re exploring how libraries around the world serve their communities and are adapting to changing needs. Sociologist Eric Klinenberg explains why libraries help build social solidarity and should be a priority for government investment. Marie Østergård tells us about libraries in the Danish city of Aarhus, home of the world-renowned Dokk1. And Isobel Hunter from Library Connected gives us reasons to be cheerful from the UK, despite more than a decade of cuts.

Plus poet Henry Normal on his new tour, The Escape Plan.

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0:00.0	This is reasons to be cheerful with Edmila Band and Jeff Lyd.
0:12.0	Hello!
0:13.0	Hello!
0:14.0	How are you?
0:15.0	I'm well!
0:16.0	But how are you?
0:17.0	You seem very busy gearing up for COP.
0:18.5	COP 26.
0:19.5	How is your, erm, what are you?
0:21.7	The pop-cop?
0:22.7	How is your Shadow Pop Cop role going?
0:24.2	The Pop-cop, Shadow Pop Cop.
0:26.2	We were still somewhere off as where we need to be as a world.
0:29.2	I think it's going to be slightly extraordinary, but I think the whole world is going to descend
0:32.8	on Glasgow.
0:33.8	It also feels like the eyes of the world are on this more than any company I can remember.
0:38.8	I had a taxi driver talking to me about COP.
0:42.8	Are you serious?
0:43.8	You're serious?
0:44.8	Yeah, it seems to be cutting through to people in real life in a way that perhaps people
0:50.0	who don't follow these things as closely weren't aware of at previous ones.
0:54.2	Are you saying that the Danish COP, which I was the recap of, it wasn't.
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