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Experience the B-side of Library Life

What is the B-side of library life all about? Here's a hint: it's not just books. Join Mieke, Leonides, and Sarah from the County Library as they flip that record and discuss the behind-the-scenes sights and sounds of the library. Special guests will drop in to chat about music, writing, community, gaming, and books.

New episodes dropping monthly

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The hosts of the podcast
From left: Sarah Müller, Leonides Ortiz, Mieke Nielson

Sarah Müller:

Sarah has been working for the County Library for 6 years, currently as a Library Assistant at Kearns. They help run Kearns' teen Queer-Straight Alliance and are working on their Masters in Library and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. You can often find them in the Kearns Create Space, making acrylic earrings with the laser cutter.

Leonides Ortiz:

Leonides (Lee) Ortiz is a Senior Librarian with the Lifelong Learning team. She has filled a few different positions here at the County Library since 2019. Originally from Upstate New York, Leonides has called Utah home for the last 8 years and is still in awe of the mountains. She enjoys a good cup of tea or coffee, British crime and baking shows, history and music documentaries, and will never say no to a concert. Poetry is her jam and if you let her, she will talk for hours about it and maybe share some of her own work as well.

Mieke Nielson:

Mieke has been working for the County Library in a variety of positions since 2013. She is currently the assistant manager of the Whitmore Branch. She also helps run the County Library's Liberterra D&D discord and Teen discord servers. When she's not working, Mieke enjoys gaming (both table top and video), reading, and cross stitching.

Karl Gilchrist - Recording Engineer
Tim Hinkle - Sound Editing
Emma Houtz - Guest Coordinator
Mariah Norton - Reader's Advisory Coordinator
Ariane Dupaix - Web lackey