Take a Look, It's in a Book

About this episode

The episode discusses the public health benefits of libraries and the importance of literacy with guests from local libraries.

Libraries offer so many public health benefits to our communities! Today we chat with two wonderful guests—Ben Zenitsky from Columbus Metropolitan Library and Katy Hite from the State Library of Ohio—about what’s going on at our local libraries and why literacy is so important. We also answer important questions like: If you had a biography written about you, what would the title be?

People in this episode

Host: Franklin County Public Health

Guests: Ben Zenitsky, Katy Hite

Topics covered

• public health
• literacy
• community resources
• libraries
• education

Keywords

• libraries
• public health
• literacy
• Columbus Metropolitan Library
• State Library of Ohio

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Columbus Metropolitan Library, State Library of Ohio

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