"Don't be boring!" This is our goal. If you want book reviews, don't listen here. The mission of the James L. Hamner Public Library is to facilitate connections that provide free learning opportunities. That means almost anything is relevant to the library. In Connections, library workers take advan…
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Jill talks with Jonblazing, a recording artist and music producer, about songwriting and his upcoming album Liminality.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Local History Digital Archives
Author Ellen Klages talks to Jill about Terry Gordon's parenting style in Out of Left Field.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Nature Backpack
Jill reads the last chapter of As American as Paneer Pie by Supriya Kelkar. Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Local History Archives
Dr. Paul Wyss shares his thoughts about what makes the kind of workplace where people are happy and comfortable.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Nature Backpack
Jill reads the first chapter of Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen by Kate McGovern.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Nature Backpack
Jill reads the last chapter of Future Perfect by Jen Larsen.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Nature Backpack
Kristi Dunn and Kristen Madden from The History Museum in South Bend, IN give an overview of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Local History ArchivesOther Resources:All-American Girls Professional Baseball LeagueThe History Museum
Jill reads chapter 1 of All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Access Video on Demand
Jill reads the last three poems from Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Access Video on Demand
Jennifer Francis talks about her experience as a woman playing baseball.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Access World NewsOther Resources:Baseball for AllWomen's Baseball History with Dr. Leslie Heaphy:Connections Episode #200Eastern Women's Baseball Conference
Artist Michael Albert talks to Jill about his work, including his library programs.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: LibbyPhoto Credit: Michael Albert
Jill reads Chapter 1 of The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Libby
Jill reads the last chapter of Harbor Me by Jaqueline Woodson.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Black Life in America
Dr. Heaphy takes 30 minutes to tell Jill 160 years of women's baseball history.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Access Video on DemandOther Resources:Baseball for AllInternational Women's Baseball CenterMeet the Dolly Vardens by Sabrina A. BrinsonNegro Leagues Baseball MuseumOut of Left Field by Ellen KlagesSociety for American Baseball Research
Jill reads Chapter 1 of The Thing I'm Most Afraid Of by Kirstin Levine.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Access Video on Demand
Jill reads the last chapter of House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russell.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Access World News
Jill talks with musician and librarian Barry Trott about Christmas music from the 1600 and 1700s in the United States and Europe.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: World Book OnlineOther Resources: Christmas Storms and Sunshine: Connections Episode #191The Oxford Book of Carols
Jill reads the prologue and first chapter of Bump by Matt Wallace.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Rosetta Stone for Libraries
Jill reads the last chapter of Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad is Untrue.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Rosetta Stone
Jill reads the first chapter of Speechless by Adam P. Schmitt.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Access World News
Jill reads Christmas Storms and Sunshine by Elizabeth Gaskell.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Rosetta Stone
Jill reads A Christmas Tree and a Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Heritage Hub
Jill reads "What Christmas Is As We Grow Older" by Charles Dickens.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Black Life in America
Jill and Circulation Manager Katie theorise on why people wear holiday-themed clothing.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: Local History Digital ArchiveOther Resources:Minding Appearances by Susan KaizerSalome of the Tenements by Anzia Yezierska
Jill reads "Autumn" by Alexander Posey.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Fall, Leaves, Fall" by Emily Brontë.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "On Friendship" by Kahlil Gibran.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "To Autumn" by John Keats.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Memory" by George Moses Horton.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Thanksgiving" by Edgar Guest.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Thanksgiving" by James Whitcomb Riley.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill attempts to read "Signs of the Times" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Thanksgiving Turkey" by George Parsons Lathrop.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "A Song of the Road" by José Santos Chocano.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "If I Had Known" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Life is Fine" by Langston Hughes.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Spider, Say Again" by Matsuo Basho and "As I Grow Older" by Langston Hughes.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Autumn" by Emily Dickinson.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "A Little Poem" by George Orwell.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "A November Night" by Sara Teasdale.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Who Has Seen the Wind" by Christina Rossetti.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Theme in Yellow" by Carl Sandburg.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Success" by Emily Dickinson.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "To Her: In Time of War" by E. Nesbit.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "The Wind" Emily Dickinson.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "The Falling of the Leaves" by W. B. Yeats.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Willow Poem" by William Carlos Williams.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "From The Kitten and Falling Leaves" by William Wordsworth.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "October" by Helen Hunt Jackson.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "October" by Robert Frost.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org
Jill reads "Besides the Autumn Poets Sing" by Emily Dickinson.Contact Us: connections@hamnerlibrary.org