We're back from summer vacation! 😎 on our latest hostful episode, Emily, Lauren, and Dave talk about how they're finding comfort in narrative during these interesting times. Find Overdueing It anywhere you get podcasts!

We've got a new show up for you! Host Lauren is joined by bestselling author Adriana Trigiani to discuss her latest book The View From Lake Como! Available wherever you get your podcasts 😎 www.overdueingit.org/home/episode...

Excited to share our annual #Pride episode! Host Tayla is joined by academic librarians Alicia, James, and Amanda to share their research project focusing on queer representation in picture books and the creation of the Rainbow Representation Rubric. Listen in anywhere you get your podcasts!

On the latest episode of Overdueing It, host Robin chats with Robert Isenberg about MILE MARKERS, his latest collection of essays about cycling. They also discuss past visions of the future, documentaries, and the Rockettes. Join the conversation anywhere you get podcasts! 🚲

Rhode Island voters: the #FreedomToRead needs you! Lawmakers need to hear from citizens that this bill needs to keep its protections for creators! Stop by Warwick Central Library 10-2 Saturday May 24 & write a postcard! (Thank you if you’ve written/called in the past - we need you again!)

The Overdueing It team presented today at the Rhode Island Library Association annual conference about podcasting as library outreach! We had a great time talking to our colleagues about how we’ve made community connections and shared our services to a new audience through five years of production 😎

What’s PechaKuchaPVD? Check out our recent episode all about this community building and storytelling event, and then join @9librariespvd.bsky.social for this special event on 5/28! We’ll see you there!

We are excited to be hosting PechaKuchaPVD at Knight Memorial Library next Wednesday! This event will be held outdoors, so bring a chair or blanket to sit on. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/pechakucha...

Projo on Senate bill passage: www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

We've got a new episode awaiting you today! Host Tayla talks with local author Donna Russo about her new book, VINCENT'S WOMEN - a historical fiction that traces the life of Vincent van Gogh through the women he knew and loved. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

RHODE ISLAND: it's time to Pull Together. Come dance against dictators, boogie against billionaires, and get connected to the community organizations who are locally doing the good work! Friday, 5-9pm, Waterplace Park. Hope to see you there. www.mobilize.us/indivisibler...

This week we're going into the Rhode Island Podcast multiverse! Hosts Emily and Lauren chat with Chris Revill of the Hey Rhody podcast about nostalgic movies, libraries as third spaces, and the many amazing free events and small businesses in Rhode Island. Available wherever you find podcasts!

Lauren had such a great chat with Victoria Atamian Waterman, Pauline Getzoyan, and Dalita Getzoyan, that we couldn’t fit it all into one episode! Check out the 20-min bonus episode “What It Means to Be Armenian-American” wherever you find your podcasts!

April is Genocide Awareness Month here in RI. On our latest episode, host Lauren sits down with author Victoria Atamian Waterman, Dalita Getzoyan, and Pauline Getzoyan, to discuss Victoria's book and the importance of Holocaust and Genocide education. Listen in wherever you get your podcasts.

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Also worth noting: Abdurraqib will appear in Providence at the RISD Auditorium, for free, on April 22. Presented by the RI Center for the Book.

On our latest, host Emily is joined by Hanif Abdurraqib, author of THERE'S ALWAYS THIS YEAR, our 2025 Reading Across RI selection! They talk about the book, their dogs, and declare Columbus, OH, and Providence, RI, unofficial sister cities. Catch the conversation anywhere you get your podcasts!

Monday March 24 @ 6:30 pm @ NK Free Library. Join the ACLU and Teach Truth RI to find out how you can support the ACLU’s work to stop anti-democratic attacks on civil rights and liberties. (Not an AABB event, but of interest to #FreedomToRead folks)

Does discussing everything Irish over a hot cup of tea sound like your idea of a great afternoon? Join Kathleen Flaherty at the Mt. Pleasant Library for everything Irish on Tuesday, March 25th at 1pm! clpvd.org/event/irish-...

We were so excited to have local storytelling legend Len Cabral on our most recent episode! In this clip, Len talks about how stories can be a way for folks to stay sharp as they age. Catch the whole conversation anywhere you get podcasts or at our website: www.overdueingit.org/home/episode...

It's New Episode Tuesday! 🥰 Host Tayla talks to local storyteller Len Cabral about his experience as honorary co-chair of this year's Reading Across RI. They also talk about his life's work as a storyteller and teacher, and why everyone has a story to tell. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! 📚

The #RhodeIsland state senate is hearing testimony (in person or written) for this Wednesday, 3/12 in support of the RI Freedom to Read Act! If you are a Rhode Islander, pls submit your testimony. I will provide helpful links in the thread #RI #rhody #booksky

We're really excited to share tomorrow's episode with you - a guest we've been hoping to talk to for over 5 years 👀

Rhode Island! We need your voices in supoort of the Freedom to Read Act S0238 - committee hearing 3/12 at 4 pm. Wondering how to submit written testimony or testify in person? Check out our tips and resources: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #FreedomToRead

Katherine Gregg’s write up of the Freedom to Read Act and today’s event in the ProJo #freedomtoread @authorsabb.bsky.social www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

@penamerica.bsky.social released new reports on book banning in the US. Facts matter in the face of disinformation campaigns. pen.org/press-releas...

All are welcome March 6, 3:00 pm at the RI State House. Join us to celebrate and support the Freedom to Read. @authorsabb.bsky.social will be giving away books by RI creators that have been banned, challenged or soft censored! #FreedomToRead

Snow drop sighting! First signs of Spring at Knight Memorial Library. #FlowerPeepingRI #flowers #grants #librarysky #[email protected] #PVD

#ICYMI on our latest episode host Emily is joined by Chris and Cherai from #PechaKucha PVD, Providence’s free monthly adult show-and-tell community building and storytelling event. Listen & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! #LibraryPodcast #RhodeIsland www.overdueingit.org/home/episode...

The joy of my week was revisiting this conversation to publish it for you. Chris and Cherai were an absolute blast. #podcast #pechakucha

It's new show day! Emily chats with Chris and Cherai from #PechaKucha PVD, Providence’s free monthly adult show-and-tell community building and storytelling event. It’s the 2nd longest running PechaKucha in the world! Listen and subscribe to Overdueing It wherever you get your podcasts 😎

Rhode Island style pizza strips! We carry these bad boys in the fridge every day 🕶️😎! They come chilled with the choice of some parm on the side for a little extra fun! 🤪

We're posting cheese Valentines all day long. #ValentinesDay #RWU #LibSky #BookSky #AcademicSky

New episode dropped! Tayla talks to @phileil.bsky.social, author of PRESCRIPTION FOR PAIN, exploring the career of Dr. Paul Volkman and its culmination in 4 life sentences for prescription drug dealing. Listen to Overdueing It anywhere you get your podcasts, or at our website overdueingit.org

Don't miss the last Scientific Illustration workshop for adults at Mt. Pleasant Library, taught by Autumn of the @riaudubon.bsky.social ! Learn more and register here: shorturl.at/i7uHK

It's really hard to overstate my joy at being a guest on the Rhode Island Library Podcast. A mashup of two of my very favorite things. 😍

Tomorrow! We’ve got @phileil.bsky.social on the show talking about his book PRESCRIPTION FOR PAIN. Find Overdueing It in your podcast player or listen in at overdueingit.org!

A great letter to the editor in the Valley Breeze today #freedomtoread #RIFreedomToRead www.valleybreeze.com/opinion/lett...

Here's more info and how to sign up clpvd.org/event/live-m...

Did you know that we offer tufting workshops for adults every other Saturday afternoon at Mt. Pleasant Library? Email [email protected] to be the first to know when registration opens for future workshops.

We've got a new episode available for you! Lauren chats with @cynthiabemisabrams.bsky.social of the Advanced TV Herstory podcast. They talk about memoirs, inspiring women, and what it's like to view television history through a feminist lens. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Show's up! We chat with Alicia from the University of Rhode Island, Dymond from Bryant University, and Olivia from Salve Regina University about the services and resources that their libraries offer to first generation college students to help them succeed in higher education.

Happening now: we're recording with Len Cabral about his work and the 2025 Reading Across RI pick: There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraquib! Episode drops in March, stay subscribed so you don't miss it!

Did you know that before launching Overdueing It, our team produced over 300 podcast episodes?? This week we revisit our archives with an ITEM RENEWAL: in March 2022 host Tayla talked with Shayna and Caroline from PCM about how there’s no wrong way to visit the Providence Children’s Museum.

Victoria and Andrew from the Providence Children's Museum suggest we all find time to infuse our lives with play. Listen to this conversation, along with their book and movie recommendations and their take on the eternal Gilmore Girls debate: Team Logan or Team Jess

Is the library the center of the community, or is the community the center of the library? Host Cheryl and the team from Community Libraries of Providence discuss! Find Overdueing It wherever you get your podcasts 😎 📚 www.overdueingit.org/home/episode...

Going up

Freeport Public Library (NY) gets it, and has right on their landing page how people can advocate for the library. More of this in 2025. LOTS more of this in 2025. freeportlibrary.info?fbclid=PAZXh...

We are honored to welcome Cheryl from the Community Libraries of Providence to the host chair today! 🥳 She brought together an all-star team from CLPVD to discuss how ways the nine branches are responding to their communities with a variety of services and programs that meet their needs.

Big day for me: I'm recording an episode of @overdueingit.org. A Rhode Island x library podcast??? @phileil.bsky.social heaven.