Episode 5 Meredith Lewis
DDurham Tech LibraryDec 9, 2020 at 9:15 pm19min
CCourtney
00:01Hello, hello hello amazing listeners. This is Out Loud in the Library a Durham Tech Library podcast. I'm your host, Courtney Bippley, Reference Librarian extraordinaire. And today's library updates are that we just got a shipment of new books. There are some really great ones in this batch like Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, That Can Be Arranged by Huda Fahmy, and so many more. Check out our blog linked in the show notes for a more complete list. The last day that the library will be open for the year is December 17th. So if you hurry, you can check out some books to read over winter break, we will be back on January 4th, 2021. Alas, that does mean that this is the last podcast episode of the year. But fear not! The podcast, will be back in the spring semester, I'm already lining up guests. So if you want to be on the podcast or know someone you think should be on the podcast, reach out and let me know. My email address is in the show notes. Today's interview is with fellow librarian Meredith Lewis, she is the creator of the Read Great Things Challenge here at the Durham Tech Library. If you haven't heard of it, it's a challenge with 12 categories. And you try to read a book that fits for at least 10 of the categories, we do allow double dipping, so a strategic reading list could get you the prize with just five books. The prize is a bookmark and a mask and bragging rights. The deadline to submit your completion form is December 31st. So there's still time to finish. I hope you enjoy listening.
CCourtney
01:55Meredith!
LLarry Chapman
01:56Hi Courtney.
CCourtney
01:59Tell me about the reading challenge. This is the third year we've been doing it right, at the library, or is it the fourth?
LLarry Chapman
02:06This might actually be the fourth year that we've been doing it. Reading challenges by themselves are not, you know, a new thing. And when you're a librarian, oftentimes people both want to talk to you about reading and both want to confess, like how bad they feel for not reading. And so you know, I kept thinking about the confessional part, since we work in a college, right. Most of especially the employees, we've read a lot to get here, you know, but oftentimes, like life, or especially when/if you're earning additional degrees, like we have a lot of people who are going for like an additional master's degree or master's certification or even getting their PhD. And our students know this too. And we know this when we've been students that sometimes, even if you remember liking to read, you don't make time for it, especially recreational reading, because it kind of starts to feel like work. And so there were a lot of people who were essentially confessing that they missed reading. And sometimes when you do things kind of as a supportive group, it makes it easier to do. And so Stephen, one of the other librarians, and I were talking one day. And he says that I came up with the idea, but I think he helped. I want to give credit where credit's due. And we were discussing the idea of a reading challenge. We're like, you know, I mean, why not just try it, because what's the worst that happens, the worst that happens is-
CCourtney
03:37Nobody does it.
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