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On this episode of DCPL Presents, DCPL's Special Collections Manager, Kerrie Cotten Williams, sits down with award-winning essayist and critical-cultural scholar, Dr. Natalie Hopkinson, to discuss the history and preservation of #DontMuteDC. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

You are now entering the Library-verse, today’s show is all about Zines.

On this episode of Notes from the Library, we learn about the Adult Literacy Resource Center at DC Public Library. The ALRC provides literacy services to young adults and adults and is staffed with adult literacy education specialists. Learn about the ALRC services and programming on this episode.

On this episode, author, photographer and filmmaker Alyscia Cunningham joins DC Public Library's Olubunmi Bakare to discuss photography, filmmaking, and her current project I Am More Than My Hair: My Outward Appearance Does Not Define Me.

In this episode, we will talk about DC Public Library's Summer Challenge, some recent author talks, and ALA conference that came through town.

You are now entering the Library-verse, today’s show is all about Makerspaces in DC.

On this episode of Notes from the Library, we meet the team behind DC Public Library’s Jail Branch. The Jail Branch opened in 2015 inside the DC Central Detention Facility and serves over 2000 inmates. Learn about the Jail Branch’s library services and programming on this episode.

In this episode of Get Lit on DCPL Radio we discuss the 50th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, the upcoming American Library Association Conference in Washington, D.C. and DCPL's Summer Reading Challenge. Host Olubunmi Bakare is joined by DCPL Children's Services Coordinator Carmen Boston, DCPL Children's Librarian Eboni Njoku and past recipient of the Coretta Scott King Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, Deborah Taylor.

On this episode of DCPL Presents, we highlight a program at the Northeast Neighborhood Library with Preserve This Podcast (PTP) project. Preserve This Podcast will discuss issues related to preserving born-digital files used in podcasting. Guests will include Mary Kidd and Sarah Nguyen who talk about their work on the project. Listeners will also be introduced to the DCPL Memory Lab and the services it provides.