Jacob Shymanski

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3,186 appearances 30 recordings 5 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 6 Jul

Jacob Shymanski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Audiobook Café · Behind-the-scenes: A Glimpse in the Public Library System · 10 Apr 2026 podcast

You're almost more like a community center than this pure church of literacy community.

17.5 million checkouts in 2025.

That's across all the branches of the Calgary Public Library.

Is that a normal number?

Because to me, I was absolutely blown away.

I couldn't picture it.

That's an insane amount of numbers.

Put some perspective on this, please.

Can you talk about Libby?

For the people who don't know, how can you use Libby to check out books through your public library?

Okay, but the interesting thing is from the user perspective of somebody who has a Calgary Public Library card, but this is the same process for other public libraries across the country.

If you have a Calgary Public Library card, you can go to Libby and register with that card.

And then you can browse through audiobooks because that's what's relevant to this show.

And you have access to all the audiobooks that...

the Calgary Public Library has acquired.

So if I'm understanding right, and please correct me if I'm wrong, you have a limited amount of titles.

And it works essentially the same as if you had like a physical copy that was checked out and people have to return them before another user can grab them.

Is that right?

Now, are there other models as to how libraries can lend out audiobooks?

Is that the only way it's done?

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