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Recycling with Joe DeRisi and Alice Kosowsky
Send us Fan MailMatt talks to Recycling Coordinator Joe DeRisi and Chair of the Solid Waste & Recycling Commission Alice Kosowsky. They talk about everything from composting and other ways of…
Find Your Joy (and Your Friends) at the Library
Send us Fan MailOn this episode we are celebrating National Library Week. This year’s theme is “Find Your Joy,” and Kacie and Eliza are here to tell us all about the many different ways the library…
Poetry Roundtable
Send us Fan MailWhen it comes to a subject as broad as poetry, it’s hard to pick one thing to focus on. So we picked a whole bunch. From statistics of who is writing poetry and why, to a staff-wide…
Choose Love, Read Romance
Send us Fan MailLove is in the air and on the shelves! In this Valentine’s Day episode, Kacie chats with booksellers from two of Connecticut’s romance-only bookstores to rave about all things romance…
Setting Goals and New Year Traditions
Send us Fan MailThis is a special, Matt-centric episode in which podcast team member Matt sits down to talk with host Michael Pierry to talk about New Year’s traditions. And because the only force in…
End-of-year 2025 Roundtable Books & Media Discussion
Send us Fan MailEnjoy our special end-of-year roundtable discussing our favorite (and least favorite) books and media of 2025 and what we're looking forward to in 2026.List of books/media…
Board Games & Picture Books: Not Just Kid Stuff
Send us Fan MailBoard games and picture books - what do these two things have in common? For one thing, you can find them both at the library. For another, they’re both entertaining for all ages.…
Your Library Card and You (PLUS Banned Books Quiz)
Send us Fan MailThis episode is dedicated to YOU and your library card. In a special in-depth interview, our Head of Borrower Services discusses the amazing things you can do with your Hamden library…
I Know What You (Are Still) Read(ing) This Summer
Send us Fan MailHamden Library Podcast team members Hannah, Eliza, Matt, Rebecca and Michael discuss their summer reading.
All Ages Readalouds
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, children's librarian Kacie chats with Daron, a professor and reading specialist about reading aloud to older kids. Did you know that research shows some clear - and…
Juneteenth 2025
Send us Fan MailTo mark this Juneteenth, Mike spoke with Hamden Black History Committee members Deborah Moxam and Evans Simmons about what the Committee does for the community as well as the…
Pride 2025
Send us Fan MailIn honor of Pride month, our new podcast team member, Eliza, recorded a couple of great interviews with two members of the LGBTQ+ community, Tony Ferraiolo and Jillian Celentano. Tony…
Level Up at Your Library
Send us Fan MailIt's almost summer reading time already! Jenny and Matt, along with some help from other staff members, explain how we can all participate and have fun leveling up at the library this…
BONUS: Masters of the Gardening Universe
Send us Fan MailThis is the second episode of the podcast in April, because... well, we just couldn’t stop ourselves! Spring is here and it’s time for many of us to start working on our gardens, if…
Voices in Verse - National Poetry Month
Send us Fan MailThis month we are celebrating National Poetry Month. In addition to our staff reading some of their favorite poems and our interview with Franz Douskey, the Hamden poet laureate, one…
Winter
Send us Fan MailThis episode is centered on winter. Our roving correspondent, Matt, asked our staff to tell us their favorite things about the season. Then Dave reads a poem by Robert Frost. And…
Horror Roundtable Discussion
Send us Fan MailFour librarians, one table, lots of horror books (and movies)! Find out what Ryan, Jenny, Matt, and Mike think will scare your socks off this Halloween season.
Banned Books Week
Send us Fan MailBanned Books Week was established by the American Library Association in 1982 to reaffirm the freedom to read and to highlight the harms of censorship, and is usually held in the last…
I Know What You Read This Summer
Send us Fan MailThis month our roving reporters Kacie and Matt asked staff and younger patrons "What have you been reading this summer and how did you feel about it?" You will hear their honest…
Roundtable Book Discussion!
Send us Fan MailWhat books would you want with you on a desert island? What book do you think deserves to be thrown into the fires of Mt. Doom? What movies are better than the books they're based on?…
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Hamden Library Podcast has published 53 episodes since September 2021, covering topics in Arts, Books.
Hamden Library Podcast is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 41m.
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