Metropolitan Library System Podcast Metropolitan Library System
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- Geschiedenis
The Metro Library podcast celebrates Oklahoma arts, Oklahoma culture, Oklahoma history and the lives of influential Oklahomans today
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Metro Library Podcast: Women's History Month
On this month's episode we talk about some of the books and movies available at the library by and about women, many of them about women with interesting Oklahoma ties.
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The Dunning Collection
In this month's episode, some of the librarians from the Metropolitan Library System's Special Collections team talk to us about the library's John Dunning III Collection, a collection of thousands of Oklahoma City items housed in the library's archive.
If you'd like to learn more about what is in the collection, you can contact the Special Collections department at special.collections@metrolibrary.org, and you can find any of the items in the collection that have been made available for viewing online at https://www.metrolibrary.org/archive -
Metro Library Podcast: The Best of 2023
In this episode we talk about some of our favorite things that came to the library in 2023.
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The Red Andrews Christmas Dinner
Over 70 years ago in Oklahoma City a fight promoter/state legislator named Red Andrews started inviting people to an annual Christmas dinner that has gone on every year since, and has grown to a crowd of nearly 6,000 people annually. In this episode of the podcast Mary Blankenship-Pointer from the Red Andrews Christmas Dinner foundation talks with us about who Red Andrews was, and the history of this Oklahoma City Christmas tradition.
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Metro Library Podcast: Cookbooks
On this month's episode we talk about our favorite cookbooks available for check out from the library just in time for all of those family holiday get togethers coming up.
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Metro Library Podcast: Banned Books Week
With Banned Books Week coming up, we talked with Janeal and Melissa from the library's Collection Development department about book challenges and how the library handles them.