Episode 52: Discovering seasonal secrets and looking ahead

Dec 24, 2019

In this final episode of the second season of Check It Out!, hosts Ken Harvey, Jessica Russell, Paul Pitkin and Jim Hills relate their personal holiday dreams and nightmares and dive into library resources that may just help set a tasty dinner table.

Hills, not beset by the piled-plate, food-touching phobia, shares that...

Episode 51: The music of community service with Dave Earling

Dec 20, 2019

Dave Earling has worn the mantles of many different roles.

Student. Musician. Husband. Father. Grandfather. Teacher. Business owner. City council member. Volunteer.

And perhaps most recently and visibly, Mayor of Edmonds.

Earling speaks in this episode of the Check It Out! podcast as he brings that role as city...

Episode 50: How to become robot-proof with Amit Singh

Dec 13, 2019

The key to long term success is becoming “robot-proof,” says Amit Singh.

Singh, the president at Edmond Community College, says students need two things to compete in today’s economy and into the future.

“They need technical skills and they need higher-level mental skills,” Singh says in this episode. “We...

Episode 49: Building the people's palace with Eric Klinenberg

Dec 5, 2019

It may not come as a surprise that Eric Klinenberg gets a warm welcome when he speaks to librarians and supporters of public libraries.

Klinenberg is the author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life that was published in 2018. The book...