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In this episode, we hear a recording of a virtual program called Don’t Become a Victim: Fraud, Scams, & Elder Abuse. We also talk about what we’re reading.

• Katie read Here for It R. Eric Thomas 
• Abby read The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (and mentioned Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy)

Next, we hear a recording of a virtual program held early this summer. Don’t Become a Victim: Fraud, Scams, & Elder Abuse is presented by Ron Farmer, President of the Charlottesville Albemarle Triad SALT Council, and David Malakouti, the Community Outreach Coordinator at the Office of the Attorney General. In it, they share information on current Fraud, Scams, and Elder Abuse including  an update from the Office of the Attorney General on COVID-19 targeted scams.

Watch the video from the event on YouTube

Some of the resources mentioned in the program:

• TRIAD
• Email TRIAD
• Upcoming TRIAD events
• Info from the SEC 
• FTC Scam alerts
• Do Not Call list
• JABA
• CrimeMapping
• Virginia Attorney General 
• VA Attorney General Consumer Protection
• Price Gouging Complaint form
• BBB’s Charity Navigator
• Email Dan M. at the AG office

Reliable links about coronavirus that they mentioned

• www.virginia.gov/coronavirus-updates
• www.211virginia.org/consumer/index.php
• www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus
• www.ftc.gov/coronavirus
• www.cdc.gov
• www.who.int/coronavirus
• www.usa.gov
• www.vdh.gov
• www.irs.gov/coronaviru

JMRL’s Youtube Account

Follow JMRL’s progress through the tiers of the JMRL COVID-19 Response Plan. 

For branch details:

• Central
• Crozet
• Gordon Avenue
• Greene County
• Louisa County
• Nelson Memorial
• Northside
• Scottsville

COVID-19 Response and Available Online Resources

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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In this episode, we hear a recording of a virtual program called Parenting with Neuroscience: Creativity, presented by Dr. Erin Clabough. We also talk about what we’re reading.

• Katie read The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin (She also mentioned his book Most Dangerous)
• Abby read The Resisters by Gish Jen

Next we hear the second in a four part series on parenting with neuroscience from UVa neuroscientist and professor Dr. Erin Clabough. This session focused on creativity. Keep up with her other sessions through the following links:

• JMRL’s Youtube Account
• Video of this event
• Video of Dr. Clabough’s previous parenting with Neuroscience event.
• Register for Dr. Clabough’s July 10, 10-11am session Parenting with Neuroscience: Self-Control

Follow JMRL’s progress through the tiers of the JMRL COVID-19 Response Plan. 

For branch details:

• Central
• Crozet
• Gordon Avenue
• Greene County
• Louisa County
• Northside
• Nelson Memorial
• Scottsville

COVID-19 Response and Available Online Resources

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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In this episode, we find out about how this year’s Summer Challenge will work. We also talk about what we’re reading.

• Katie read Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
• Abby read Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

Next, we talk to Young Adult Services Manager Tim Carrier about this year’s Summer Challenge. You can access the first challenge sheet and the second challenge sheet.

Tim is reading The Agony House by Cherie Priest

JMRL has moved to Tier 4 of JMRL’s COVID-19 Response Plan. JMRL branches (with the exception of the Nelson Memorial Library due to ongoing construction) have reopened with a contactless curbside pick-up only option for library holds from Tuesdays-Saturdays between 10am and 2pm. 

For branch details:

• Central
• Crozet
• Gordon Avenue
• Greene County
• Louisa County
• Nelson Memorial
• Northside
• Scottsville

COVID-19 Response and Available Online Resources

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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On this episode we re-air a recording first shared in Season 2 Episode 12. In this recording, child psychologists Dr. Marianne Celano and Dr. Marietta Collins read and discuss their book Something Happened In Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice. They visited the Central library on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, the National Day of Racial Healing. They offer techniques for talking about difficult racial issues with children and answered questions from the audience.

First, Katie and Abby talk about what they’ve been reading.

• Katie read the Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French (specifically The Trespasser)
• Abby read Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik

Next, we hear a recording from child psychologists Dr. Marianne Celano and Dr. Marietta Collins as they read and discuss their book Something Happened In Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice. 

• Anastasia Higginbotham’s books
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• EmbraceRace
• RaceConscious.org
• Magination Press – Additional resources related to the book

JMRL’s COVID-19 Response Plan

COVID-19 Response and Available Online Resources

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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This episode is a celebration of Poem In Your Pocket Day!

• Katie read Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
• Abby read Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez

In celebration of Poem in Your Pocket Day, several JMRL staff read the following poems . All of the poems are either in the public domain or were written by the reader.

• Nina read:
  • The Castled Crag of Drachenfels by Lord Byron
  • Thine Eyes Still Shined by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
  • I Never Saw a Moor by Emily Dickinson
• Evan read:
  • The Table and the Chair by Edward Lear
• Tish read:
  • The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour by Edgar Allan Poe
• Anne-Marie read:
  • The Flower at My Window by Lucian B. Watkins
• Sarah read:
  • Sonnet by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
• Alan read:
  • There is No Frigate Like a Book by Emily Dickinson
  • At The Window by D. H. Lawrence
  • Thaw by Edward Thomas
  • Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Chris read:
  • Philia, his own composition
• Angela read:
  • The Caterpillar by Christina Rossetti
• Camille read:
  • Travel by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Wendy read:
  • A Gift by Leonora Speyer
  • Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare
• Tim K. read:
  • Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson
• Whitney read:
  • Whoosh Goes the Wind, her own composition
• Glynis read:
  • My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Poet and the Baby by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
• Amy read:
  • April, her own composition
• Wyn read:
  • Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
  • We Never Know How High We Are (1176) by Emily Dickinson
  • Fog by Carl Sandburg
  • Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • A Day by Emily Dickinson
• Tim C. read:
  • XXXV (A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky) by Stephen Crane
  • Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Coffee by former long-time JMRL worker Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen

JMRL’s COVID-19 Response Plan

COVID-19 Response and Available Online Resources

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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On this episode we talk about what we’re reading. We’ll hear once again from a variety of our colleagues, who also talk about what they’ve been reading. All of these titles exist in JMRL’s collection in at least one digital format, so they’re accessible to download or put on hold even while physical JMRL locations are closed.

• Katie read Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke
• Abby read Between Before and After by Maureen Doyle McQueery
• Nina read 
  • Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield OverDrive/Libby Ebook RBdigital Audiobook
  • The Hank the Cowdog Series by John Erickson OverDrive/Libby Ebook
  • The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson OverDrive/Libby Audiobook
  • Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell OverDrive/Libby Ebook OverDrive/Libby Audiobook RBdigital Audiobook
• Tish read 
  • When All is said by Anne Griffin OverDrive/Libby Audiobook 
  • Miracle Creek by Angie Kim OverDrive/Libby Ebook
• Michelle read The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevado OverDrive/Libby Ebook OverDrive/Libby Audiobook Freading Ebook
• Nancy read Bat and the Waiting Game by Elana K. Arnold Freading Ebook
• Camille read We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry OverDrive/Libby Ebook OverDrive/Libby Audiobook

JMRL’s COVID-19 Response Plan

COVID-19 Response and Available Online Resources

It’s National Poetry Month!

Poetry Contest Information and Online Submission

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website.

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On this episode we talk about what we’re reading. We’ll hear from a variety of our colleagues, who also talk about what they’ve been reading. All of these titles exist in JMRL’s collection in at least one digital format, so they’re accessible to download or put on hold even while physical JMRL locations are closed.

• Katie read An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Abby read Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
• Ginny read Dominicana by Angie Cruz
• Tish read For Every One by Jason Reynolds and mentioned the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge
• Alan read Erin Hunter’s Warriors series
• Meredith read Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson (also available on Freading)
• Hayley read Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
• Michelle read Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
• Nancy read Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kreuger
• Tim read The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles
• Wyn read The Big Bad Book of Botany by Michael Largo
• Nina read The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield and Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
• Sarah read Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes and We Speak Your Names by Pearl Cleage

• JMRL’s COVID-19 Response Plan
• COVID-19 Response and Available Online Resources

• It’s National Poetry Month!
• Poetry Contest Information and Online Submission

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Friends of the Library have postponed their spring sale until a not yet determined time. We will keep you updated as we find out more. 

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On this episode we hear a recording of an event that took place at the Northside Library earlier this month, So I Married a President: How to Become First Lady in One Easy Step. We also talk about what we’re reading.

Originally, this episode was going to cover JMRL’s five tiered COVID-19 response plan, but the local situation developed so quickly that the episode was out of date before it was published, and JMRL is closed until at least the end of March. Find a list of digital resources that you can access through the JMRL blog.

• Katie read Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
• Abby read Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Next, we hear a recording of JMRL’s Historical Collection Librarian, Miranda Burnett, giving a presentation on several former first ladies, in a program called So I Married a President: How to Become First Lady in One Easy Step.

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Friends of the Library have postponed their spring sale until a not yet determined time. We will keep you updated as we find out more.

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On this episode we hear a recording of an event at the Northside Library featuring music and poetry by Richelle Claiborne and Tucker Rogers. We also talk about what we’re reading.

• Katie read The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
• Abby read The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Next we hear a recording of Acoustic Soul, an event that took place at the Northside library last month. Acoustic Soul features singer Richelle Claiborne and guitarist Tucker Rogers with an evening of music and poetry. Claiborne, also a poet and actress, shares her process and original works and takes questions from the audience. Rogers plays everything from Bluegrass to Hip Hop and is known for the deep and honest connection he forms with both his instrument and audience. 

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website.

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On this episode we talk to Monticello’s Niya Bates about an event she moderated at the Northside Library centered around the largest sale of enslaved people in Monticello’s history. We also talk about what we read.

• Abby read American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer

• Katie read Disappearing Earth by Julia Philips

We also hear from Monticello’s Niya Bates, Director of African American History and the Getting Word Oral History Project, about an event held at the Northside Library in January. This event was Roots and Remembrance: From the Descendants of Monticello’s Enslaved Families, which allowed descendants of people enslaved at Monticello to reflect upon and remember their ancestors.

Niya is reading:

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri Greenidge
• A Black Woman’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss or reading challenges you’d like to invite us to join, please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website.