How do public libraries fight racism? Can you be addicted to books? What’s it really like to be a librarian? Meet Me at the Library takes you inside public libraries across Central Victoria to find out how these remarkable spaces bring us together. With wise, wonderful and witty characters, from the keyboard warrior using the library’s free WiFi to help reunite families, through to the reformed smoker who’s replaced cigarettes with books, you’ll find out why these surprising, creative and democratic places – our public libraries – are more important than ever. Produced with the assistance of the Community Broadcasting Foundation. Find out more at www.cbf.org.au
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Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
"I like the smell of books. It's addictive - I wish you could bottle up and put it in a perfume spray, because it would be the best perfume smell."
Michelle Elliot replaced cigarettes with books five years ago and hasn't looked back.
"I was a heavy smoker and I had no willpower to give up. One day I took the tablets (to stop smoking), and after that I started going to the library. I couldn't stop reading."
In the final episode of Season 1 of Meet Me at the Library, we're celebrating books with a book addict, and an all-star librarian.
Credits:
Host/Producer: Anne-Marie Middlemast
Supervising Producer: Jane Curtis
Mix Engineer: Hamish Robertson, Tall Tale Audio
Music: Eliza Hull / Blue Dot Sessions / Chad Crouch
Artwork: Justine Henry
Supported by: MAIN 94.9FM and Goldfields Library Corporation
Produced with the assistance of the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
Find out more at www.cbf.org.au
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This was the first podcast I have listened to from your library, due to fellow book addict, Michelle Elliot and authors, Lisa Ireland and Rachael Johns. I was very interesting. The bookmark part was funny!🤣Thank you.😊
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