Off the Shelf with Delaware Library

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Monte Stevens, Vice President of our Friends of the Library! This week was National Friends of the Library Week. To celebrate we're highlighting the awesome work our Friends do for the Library. Interested in in joining? Check out their website and learn how to become a volunteer.  R...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Neha Hariharan. This week we chat about teen perspectives on the Library and how the Library meets the need of modern teenagers!  Recommendations include The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten, We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach, and the Pulitzer Prize winning musical Next to Nor...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Mackenzie Dyll from the Orange Branch! Recommendations include:   Problematic Summer Romance  by Ali Hazelwood,  Grim Tidings  by B.K. Borison and Alanis Morissette's new Christmas album that releases on November 6th called "Good Weather for Immaculate Conception." Need even more bo...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Lisa Kaufman from the Delaware Branch Library. This week we chat about next month's Library Comic Con -- The Great GeekFest. And, of course, what we've been reading!  Recommendations include  Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe ,  The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller , and...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Myers-LaBadie! Guest this week are David Solliday from the Upcycle Center at OUW and Charlie Holbrooks, intern at Bishop Elevate for first Gen College Students. This week we chat about our upcoming Upcycling Craft programs with OWU! Also check out our new e-book resource available on our website called LOTE4Kids...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Nichole Klatte. Guests include author Isaac Fitzgerald live in studio! This week we chat with Fitzgerald about his travels while writing American Rambler ! We also discuss the upcoming Dolly Parton celebration on September 25 at all DCDL locations. And, of course, what we've been reading.   Recommendations include  Twi...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Hannah Simpson. This week's guest is Olivia Montgomery-Gray, DCDL's newest HR Specialist!  This week we chat about what it's like working at DCDL! Speaking of jobs, there is a Hiring & Grad School Fair at OWU on September 17th from 11am-2pm . Recommendations include:  The Other Bennet Sister  by Janice Hadlow,  Col...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include author Isaac Fitzgerald. This week we chat about Isaac Fitzgerald's upcoming visit with the Friends of the Library ! He'll be at the newly renovated Bicentennial Barn located in McCammon Creek Park on Thursday, September 17th from 6pm-8pm.  Tickets are available now.   Recommendatio...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. We have a very special guest this week! Author, Margaret Peterson Haddix! This week we chat about Margaret's upcoming Young Writers Workshop. The workshop is officially sold out, however she is doing a special book signing with books bought from Bean Bag Books at the Liberty Branch on September 19...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Rich Yepsen, a volunteer with AARP Fraud Watch Network. This week we chat about the upcoming AARP Scam Watch series at the Delaware Branch Library !  Recommendations include The Mad Wife by Meagan Church, Where the Music Had to Go by Jim Windolf, and What You Are Looking For Is in t...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Dyesha Darby, Director of School-Based and Community Prevention with HelpLine of Delaware and Morrow Counties. This week we chat about the upcoming QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) programming at the Orange Branch on August 24th. With participation from Helpline, this program wil...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Jen Ruhe from Delaware City Schools. This week we chat about back to school and getting students, teachers, and parents ready. Listen for an exciting announcement!  Recommendations include Starter Villain by John Scalzi , Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston and the Fairs & Fest...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Molly Meyers LaBadie and Nicole Fowles. This week's guests is national bestselling author Thao Thai. We discussed Thao's new book  The Seekers of Deer Creek ! Tickets for her upcoming event at Beanbag Books are available on on their website . Thank you to our Friends of the Library for putting on this special event! Recommendations incl...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Molly Meyers LaBadie and Hannah Simpson. Guests include Suzanne Pingry from Connections Volunteers Center and Helpline , and Neha Hariharan and Jan Davis from the Sages & Seekers program . This week we chat about the connections made during this summer's Sages & Seekers session, which met at the Library for several weeks. And, o...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guest this week is Lori Kipfer from the Board of Library Trustees. This week we chat about what we have been reading and back to school readiness.  Recommendations include:  Jurassic Park  by Michael Crichton,  Born Lucky be Leland Vittert and  The Odyssey  by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson.  ...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Hannah Simpson. Guests include author Kevin Williams. This week we chat about Kevin's new book "Not So Simple. My Adventures Among the Amish, Mennonites, Shakers, and other Plain People". An, of course, what we're reading. Recommendations include Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry , The Summer of Death by Geoffrey William...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Garrett Guillozet, Health Commissioner, and Adam Howard, Deputy Health Commissioner of Preventative Health from the Delaware Public Health District . This week we chat about the Mobile Health Clinic stops at the Ostrander Branch Library, the Walk with Ease program, and the Baby Expo...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Nichole Klatte from the Friends of the Library and New York Times bestselling author Laura Kamoie! This week we chat about Laura Kamoie's upcoming visit to DCDL on June 25 (thanks to the Friends!) and her newest book  A Founding Mother.   Recommendations include Fox by Joyce Carol O...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Hannah Simpson and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Hannah Atibagos from the Central Ohio Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association! This week we talk about Alzheimer's and Brian Awareness Month and the signs of memory diseases. Recommendations include: Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook ,  Max the Brave  by Ed Vere, and  Dream Girl...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Hannah Simpson and Matt Davic. Guests include Kelly Cochran, Programming and Youth Service Coordinator for Delaware County District Library. This week we chat about Summer Reading Club , which kicks off June 1!  Recommendations include Minecraft games, Women's Hotel by Daniel Lavery , and The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde. Lis...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Hannah Simpson and Matt Davis. Guests include Beth McCollum from Preservation Parks. This week we chat about the summer exhibits and letterboxing program , "What Lies Beneath" at Preservation Parks of Delaware County.!  Recommendations include Dark Knights of Steel by Tom Taylor, Something in the Woods Loves You by Jarod Anderson, and A...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Brian Doone, Community Relations Coordinator for SourcePoint.  This week we chat about upcoming events with SourcePoint like the Health Expo and the Car Show. And, of course, what we're reading!  Recommendations include Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes and some of Nicole's favorite n...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. This week we chat about the America 250 events in May and, of course, what we're reading!  Recommendations include Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green and Common Sense by Thomas Paine . Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/   This episode originally aired on May 1, 2026...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie.  This week we chat with Kiana Hardy-Butler, Orange branch assistant manager! Check out these fun programs happening at Orange in May .  Including Jeopardy, Romance Book Talk and more! Recommendations include: How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin,  The Quarter Queen  by Kayla Hardy, and t...

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Alan Goss, Director of the COSI Science Festival. This week we chat about DCDL's participation in the COSI Science Festival and associated programs!  Recommendations include Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathman , Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel , Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murd...