In this season finale, Bob catches up with Sciences Manager, Michelle Ruiz, and Mission Valley Branch Manager, Karen Reilly about library services for individuals experiencing homelessness. Bob also speaks with Aaron Basila and Gedalyahu Ben-Shimeon from the National Alliance on Mental Illness about NAMI's partnership with the Central Library.

Mental Health Services at the Central Library

• Social Worker Intern Program

National Alliance for Mental Illness

• Connection 2 Community Clubhouse

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this episode, Bob hangs with Listeners' Advisory cohost and Library Shop Manager, Scott Ehrig-Burgess for a second installment of the pop-culture recommendation segment, Queue Time. Recommendations range from non-fiction reads, to crime shows, to marathon interview podcasts on the limits of LLMs.

Scott's recs

• Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the "Criminal Alien" - César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
• 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed - Eric Klinenberg
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet - David Mitchell
  • Shogun (Scott does NOT recommend)
• Lex Fridman - Lex Fridman Podcast
  • "Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI"

Bob's Recs

• Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection - Charles Duhigg
• The Gentlemen - Guy Ritchie
• Disgraceland with Jake Brennan

Library Shop
Library Foundation SD Events
Prestige TV
Large Language Models
Dewey Decimal

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.

In this episode, Bob hangs out with staff from READ/San Diego, the city's premier literacy service. He chats with Program Administrator Nicole Settle about the program's mission and history, as well as with Coordinators Stephanie Contreras and Tim Donolon about READ's two prongs of service: Adult & Family Literacy. They also discuss the recent 35th Annual Recognition Dinner, which honors program participants, volunteer tutors, READ staff, and other advocates for literacy.

READ/San Diego

• Virtual Services

California Library Literacy Services

This podcast is supported by the Library Foundation SD.