Episode 19: Hyperlocal Streaming Music, Audiobook Awards, and Picture Books with Boots

Booklist's Shelf Care

On this episode of Booklist’s Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to Molly Luby and Melissa Bartoletta about Tracks, a hyperlocal streaming music platform, a project of the Chapel Hill Public Library and Chapel Hill Community Arts and Culture. We talked about how the project came to be, how it works, and how Tracks continues to reach out to the community to share local music. Then Audio Editor Heather Booth spills the tea on the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production. Finally, Susan talks to Books for Youth and Graphic Novels Editor Sarah Hunter about what she’s reading and loving right now. Tracks Music Library Rabble/MusiCat Tracks Volume I: We Rise As Allies and Tracks Volume II: Isolation Illumination Rowdy XOXOK A-Yoni Bangzz Treee City Violet Bell Boogie Boogie, Y’all, written and illustrated by C. G. Esperanza, narrated by the author When You Look Like Us, by Pamela N. Harris, narrated by Preston Butler III RUSA CODE’s Listen List YALSA’s Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults ALSC’s Notable Children’s Recordings Register for Amazing Audiobooks webinar on Friday, February 25th at 2 PM ET Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest, written and illustrated by Phoebe Wahl Mr. Watson’s Chickens, by Jarrett Dapier, illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, written and illustrated by Kate Beaton