Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
We took a behind-the-scenes tour of Robarts Library with librarian and podcast host Jesse Carliner, who recently dug into 50 years of the brutalist building's history and secrets. That includes the question he gets asked most on tours: is Robarts sinking under the weight of all those books?
Spoiler: It’s just a myth. But there’s much more where that came from.
Hear more on The Unquiet Library, available wherever you get your podcasts.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-unquiet-library-fifty-years-of-robarts-library/id1879374857
open.spotify.com/show/0AjhamYcDbag8p2cC88EqT
music.amazon.com/podcasts/184893c1-e442-4d0d-975c-7b40a671460b/the-unquiet-library-fifty-years-of-robarts-library
We took a behind-the-scenes tour of Robarts Library with librarian and podcast host Jesse Carliner, who recently dug into 50 years of the brutalist building's history and secrets. That includes the question he gets asked most on tours: is Robarts sinking under the weight of all those books?
Spoiler: It’s just a myth. But there’s much more where that came from.
Hear more on The Unquiet Library, available wherever you get your podcasts.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-unquiet-library-fifty-years-of-robarts-library/id1879374857
open.spotify.com/show/0AjhamYcDbag8p2cC88EqT
music.amazon.com/podcasts/184893c1-e442-4d0d-975c-7b40a671460b/the-unquiet-library-fifty-years-of-robarts-library
