Plumfield Moms is a fairly new podcast, hosted by two ladies who have been talking about books and homeschooling and encouraging homeschoolers for quite a while. Sara Masarik and Diane Pendergraft are producing an excellent podcast with author interviews, talks with small independent publishers, Christian mom devotionals, and more. The “more” is what I want to tell you about here.
Today’s podcast episode is an interview with three librarians from Georgia, Oklahoma, and Texas, who own and operate Living Books Libraries, private lending libraries that cater mostly to homeschool families (but anyone is welcome to join). These libraries charge a reasonable yearly fee for members to come and borrow books, many of which are no longer available in the public library and can sometimes be quite expensive to purchase. Many of these books are out of print and hard to find, but these librarians have collected and cared for the books and are now sharing them with their patrons.
Why am I telling you this, and why do you need another podcast in your life? Well, first of all, the library in Texas featured on today’s podcast episode, Meet the Library Ladies, is mine, Meriadoc Homeschool Library. And secondly, this podcast is just that good, covering topics that have not been covered in other podcasts or sometimes not online at all. Just look at some of these podcast episode titles:
- Landmark books: What are Landmark books? Why do they matter?
- Meet Biblioguides
- Meet Living Book Press (Anthony Coalfield, a publisher of out of print books from Australia)
- Meet Library Ladies: Sherry Early, Sandy Hall and Mary Schubert
- Meet Library Lady Kathy Seeger
- Meet Purple House Press (another publisher of excellent reprints of beautiful books)
- Remembering Leonard Kessler, beloved author of children’s books
- Remembering Elizabeth Orton Jones, another excellent author
- Sherry Early’s Picture Book Preschool (yes, that’s me again!)
And after you listen to all of these great episodes, there are more good things in the works: discussions of specific Landmark titles, interviews with more Living Books librarians, and more. I hope you will enjoy listening as much as I have enjoyed recording with and listening to Plumfield Moms.