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Virtual Podcast Brunch Club: Like Book Club, For Podcasts

2020-11-20 14:00:00 2020-11-20 15:00:00 America/Chicago Virtual Podcast Brunch Club: Like Book Club, For Podcasts Click on the title for this month's podcast listening list. Share recommendations and talk all things podcast. Listening to the episodes is not required to attend. Online -

Friday, November 20
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2020-11-20 14:00:00 2020-11-20 15:00:00 America/Chicago Virtual Podcast Brunch Club: Like Book Club, For Podcasts Click on the title for this month's podcast listening list. Share recommendations and talk all things podcast. Listening to the episodes is not required to attend. Online -

Click on the title for this month's podcast listening list. Share recommendations and talk all things podcast. Listening to the episodes is not required to attend.

This month's listening list: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Podcast: The Digital Workplace
Episode: Work Minus Monotony with Byron Reese (March 2019, 28 min)
AI is coming…to make you better. Byron Reese has been thinking about and observing technology for a long time. He says as long as we keep learning, we never need to worry about losing jobs, especially if you are a plumber. Reese is the author of The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity.
Listen on app of choice (via Podkite) or via Podchaser or Podyssey

Podcast: Recode Daily
Episode: The future of work pt 1 (May 2020, 25 min)
Because more people are working from home, employers are increasingly using software that monitors much more than just your hours on the clock.
Listen on app of choice (via Podkite) or via Podchaser or Podyssey

Podcast: Curious Minds: Innovation in Life and Work
Episode: Anne Helen Petersen on Workplace Burnout (September 2020, 43 min)
How did we get to a place where life’s become an endless treadmill of work? In her latest book, Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen tackles this question. She argues, “You’re taking things that are meant to be leisure, that are meant to be those joyful corners of your life that are not work, and you’re turning them into work.”
Listen on app of choice (via Podkite) or via Podchaser or Podyssey

Podcast: Hidden Brain
Episode: Bullshit Jobs (September 2018, 45 min)
Have you ever had a job where you stopped and asked yourself: what am I doing here? If I quit tomorrow, would anyone even notice? In 2013, anthropologist David Graeber wrote an article (and then a book) in which he described these types of positions as “bullshit jobs.” He received a flood of responses from people for whom this label struck a chord — people who felt their work was, essentially, meaningless.
Listen on app of choice (via Podkite) or via Podchaser or Podyssey

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Northbrook Public Library

Phone: 847-272-6224

Hours
We're closed Friday July 04
Mon, Jun 30 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Tue, Jul 01 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Wed, Jul 02 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Thu, Jul 03 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Fri, Jul 04 Closed
Sat, Jul 05 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jul 06 1:00PM to 5:00PM

Upcoming events

Tue, Jul 01, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Collaboratory - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 02, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Fri, Jul 04, All day

Sat, Jul 05, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Sat, Jul 05, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor
This event is full

Mon, Jul 07, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Mon, Jul 07, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor
This event is full

Mon, Jul 07, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Tue, Jul 08, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 08, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 08, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 08, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 10:00am - 10:45am
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor
This event is full

Wed, Jul 09, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Wed, Jul 09, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Civic Room - First Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 9:00am - 1:30pm
Study Room 12 - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Thu, Jul 10, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Fri, Jul 11, 10:00am - 10:30am
Gazebo

Fri, Jul 11, 10:00am - 11:00am
Pollak Room AB - First Floor
Registration is now closed

Fri, Jul 11, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Sat, Jul 12, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Sun, Jul 13, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Sun, Jul 13, 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Mon, Jul 14, 10:00am - 10:30am
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Mon, Jul 14, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Mon, Jul 14, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 15, 10:00am - 11:30am
Zoom Room 2 - Fiction & Media

Tue, Jul 15, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 15, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 15, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 16, 10:00am - 10:45am
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 16, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 16, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Wed, Jul 16, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 16, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Thu, Jul 17, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 17, 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 17, 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 17, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Fri, Jul 18, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Civic Room - First Floor

Fri, Jul 18, 10:00am - 10:30am
Gazebo

Fri, Jul 18, 10:00am - 11:00am
Pollak Room AB - First Floor
Registration is now closed

Fri, Jul 18, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor

Fri, Jul 18, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Sat, Jul 19, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Civic Room - First Floor

Sat, Jul 19, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor
This event is full

Sat, Jul 19, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Pollak Room A - First Floor
This event is full

Sun, Jul 20, 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Sun, Jul 20, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Mon, Jul 21, 10:00am - 11:30am
Civic Room - First Floor

Mon, Jul 21, 11:00am - 11:30am
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Mon, Jul 21, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Mon, Jul 21, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor
This event is full

Mon, Jul 21, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 22, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 22, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 22, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 23, 10:00am - 10:45am
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 23, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 23, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Wed, Jul 23, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 23, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 23, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Thu, Jul 24, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 24, 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 24, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Fri, Jul 25, 10:00am - 11:00am
Pollak Room AB - First Floor
Registration is now closed

Fri, Jul 25, 10:30am - 11:30am
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Fri, Jul 25, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Sat, Jul 26, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Sun, Jul 27, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Mon, Jul 28, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Mon, Jul 28, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor
This event is full

Mon, Jul 28, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Mon, Jul 28, 7:00pm - 8:15pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Tue, Jul 29, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Youth Services Activity Room - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 29, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reference Area - Second Floor

Tue, Jul 29, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Zoom Room 5 - Youth Services

Wed, Jul 30, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 30, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 30, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Wed, Jul 30, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Interactive Classroom - Second Floor,Study Room 2 - Second Floor

Wed, Jul 30, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Thu, Jul 31, 10:00am - 10:30am
Story Corner - Second Floor

Thu, Jul 31, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Pollak Room AB - First Floor

Thu, Jul 31, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium - First Floor

Thu, Jul 31, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Civic Room - First Floor