How Libraries Work
Bad On Paper
Becca Freeman
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re learning all about how libraries work with a BOP listener, Carley! Carley has worked in public libraries for over ten years and has a Master of Library and Information Science and is the host of the Tales from a Bibliophile podcast.
We ask Carley about her career journey, a typical day in her job, how books get purchased, how funding works, books bans, and more!
Favorite books she re-reads
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Most recommended books
Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s first four novels
The Family Plot by Megan Collins
Louise Penny for Mysteries
The House in the Cerulean Sea by Tj Klune
Under the Whispering Door by Tj Klune
Obsessions
Olivia: White Whine with Ice
Becca: Making a funfetti cake for girls’ weekend, and RHONY Season 14 (the reboot!)
What we read this week!
Becca: n/a
Olivia: Meet Me At The Lake by Carley Fortune
This Month’s Book Club Pick - Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's different, right? |
| 0:17.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to Battle Paper. |
| 0:21.0 | Wait. |
| 0:22.0 | Okay. |
| 0:23.0 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Battle Paper podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | Is that right? |
| 0:27.0 | Am I having a stay however you want? |
| 0:29.0 | You just do it. |
| 0:30.0 | I don't know what's going on with me. |
| 0:31.0 | I can't think straight. |
| 0:32.0 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome back to Battle Paper podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Becca Freeman. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm Olivia Mentor, who momentarily just forgot how to introduce this podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | So that's the energy we're dealing with on this day. |
| 0:44.0 | Don't get discouraged because we have an excellent episode today talking all about how library is work, |
| 0:49.0 | which is a topic that is very near and dear to both of our hearts. |
| 0:52.0 | Yes, and a listener suggested episode. |
| 0:55.0 | So thank you so much for that. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:59.0 | Listener focused. |
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