Outside the Box Melanie Miller

This week Melanie is joined by Alex Andrasik, Adult Services Librarian from Penn Yan Public Library and Sally Jacoby-Murphy, Library Director of the Hammondsport Public Library as we discuss book bans, and the role of librarians on the front lines of these discussions.

https://pen.org/banned-in-the-usa/

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/freedomreadstatement

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom 

Library Director Melanie Miller sits down with Children's Librarian Kate Miller (Wellsville-David A. Howe Library) and Youth Services Coordinator Cherilyn Wise (Cuba Circulating Library) to discuss all things summer reading! Learn how little your local librarian sleeps during the summer months! 

Learn more about our Reading Through Africa Challenge. The first book we read was Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti. 

Kate Miller, Children's Librarian from the David A. Howe Library in Wellsville, NY joins us to discuss some new children's books and author, Beverly Cleary. 

This month we discuss Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me about her friendship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. 

Hear about some of the new books we've added to the collection in the month of February.  Everything from picture books to adult non-fiction, young adult, to adult fiction.