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Circulating Ideas facilitates conversations with the innovative people and ideas inspiring libraries to grow and thrive in the 21st century.

8: Bobbi Newman

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Steve speaks with Bobbi Newman who blogs at Librarian by Day, and is the founder and coordinator of the Library Day in the Life Project.

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Bobbi Newman, Librarian by Day

Bobbi Newman is dedicated to helping libraries find their place in the digital age. She is passionate about 21st century literacies and the role of all libraries in equal access and opportunity for all. Her professional interests include digital and technology based services, the digital divide, and improving existing services through expanding traditional methods, while creating innovative new practices. She shares her passions by consulting and speaking at local, national, and international conferences.

Bobbi was named a Mover and Shaker by Library Journal in 2011. Her professional involvements and accomplishments include founding and coordinating the semi-annual Library Day in the Life Project. She is a frequent caller on T is for Training and a contributor and advocate at Library Renewal. In 2010, she co-founded the Transliteracy Interest Group, LITA, ALA, and currently serves as co-chair. Bobbi co-founded and writes for Libraries and Transliteracy Project. She was recently invited to be a contributor on the Transliteracy Research Group. She was appointed as the LITA representative on the ALA OITP Digital Literacy Task Force and serves as an ALA Councilor-at-Large and on the OITP Advisory Committee.

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7: R. David Lankes

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Steve speaks with R. David Lankes, professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and author of The Atlas of New Librarianship.

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R. David Lankes is a professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, director of the library science program for the school, and director of the Information Institute of Syracuse. Lankes has always been interested in combining theory and practice to create active research projects that make a difference. Past projects include the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, the Gateway to Education Materials, AskERIC and the Virtual Reference Desk. Lankes’ more recent work involves how participatory concepts can reshape libraries and credibility.

Lankes is a passionate advocate for libraries and their essential role in today’s society. He also seeks to understand how information approaches and technologies can be used to transform industries. In this capacity he has served on advisory boards and study teams in the fields of libraries, telecommunications, education, and transportation including at the National Academies. He has been a visiting fellow at the National Library of Canada, the Harvard School of Education, and the first fellow of ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy.

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Virtual Dave…Real Blog
The Atlas of New Librarianship | Blog
Books on the Side
A Rose By Any Other Name
Civil War, Doctors, and the Future of Librarians
The Annoyed Librarian

6: Sarah Houghton

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Steve speaks with Sarah Houghton, the Librarian in Black.

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Sarah Houghton is best known as the author of the award-winning LibrarianInBlack.net.  She is also the Assistant Director for the San Rafael Public Library. Sarah is a big technology nerd and believes in the power of libraries to change lives.  Combined, they make a fearsome cocktail.  Sarah has been called an iconoclast, a contrarian, a future-pusher, and a general pain in the ass.  She takes great pride in each.  Her first book came out in 2010: Technology Training in Libraries and she is a frequent speaker for online and realspace worldwide events for libraries and other institutions.

5: Justin Hoenke

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Steve speaks with Justin Hoenke, teen librarian and video gaming enthusiast.

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Justin Hoenke is a teen librarian and video gaming enthusiast who has written about these subjects for publications such as Library Journal, VOYA, and is a regular contributor for the blog Tame the Web. Justin is a member of the 2010 ALA Emerging Leaders class and a MLIS graduate of the Department of Library Science at the Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the Teen Librarian at the Portland (ME) Public Library, where he is responsible for teen collection development and programming as well as overseeing the video game and graphic novel collection for the library system. His professional interests include video gaming in libraries, teen librarianship, creating local collections, and community building. You can follow Justin on Twitter @justinlibrarian.

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Make Music at the Library
Portland, Maine
Video game collection at Portland Public Library
“Library’s game to attract teen patrons”
Double Jump looks at “Libraries and Gaming”
If This is the Future, Count Me Out
National Gaming Day | Twitter | Facebook
“Twin Peaks” as an Atari game
Awkward Family Photos: The Board Game
ALA Emerging Leaders
LLAMA
Tame the Web
Michael Stephens
Peter Bromberg

4: Kate Sheehan

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Steve speaks with Kate Sheehan, Open Source Implementation Coordinator for Bibliomation.

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Kate Sheehan is the Open Source Implementation Coordinator for Bibliomation, a consortium of public and school libraries in CT. She has been the Coordinator of Knowledge and Learning Services at Darien Library and the Coordinator of Library Automation at Danbury Public Library, which was the first library to implement LibraryThing for Libraries. Prior to joining Danbury Public Library, she was a technology and reference librarian at both Hamden Public Library and the Ferguson Library in Stamford, CT. A graduate of Smith College, Kate’s post-college experiences in the corporate workplace inspired her decision to get an MSLIS from Simmons. She finished library school in December of 2003 and has been happily ensconced in the public library sphere since then. When she’s not coordinating, she blogs atloosecannonlibrarian.net and ALA TechSource. You can follow her on Twitter @itsjustkate.

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3: Lori Reed and Paul Signorelli

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Steve speaks with Lori Reed and Paul Signorelli, authors of the new book Workplace Learning & Leadership.

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Lori Reed is a learning strategist with expertise in training trainers, online training, learning communities, and communication skills.  With over 15 years of experience in the workplace learning and development field, Lori is a North Carolina Master Trainer, certified Synchronous Learning Expert, and was named a 2009 Library Journal “Mover & Shaker.” Her new consulting practice, Lori Reed Learning Solutions, can be found at www.lorireed.com.

Paul Signorelli has more than 20 years of experience as a learning leader for libraries and other organizations and businesses. As Director of Staff Training (six years) and Volunteer Services (14 years) for the San Francisco Public Library system, he created, implemented, and managed numerous training plans. He continues to serve as a writer, trainer, onsite and online presenter, and consultant for a variety of organizations and remains active in the American Library Association Learning Round Table and with ASTD (the American Society for Training & Development), where he has held leadership positions at the local and national level, including his current role (January 2011-December 2013) as a member of ASTD’s National Advisors for Chapters. He can be reached at paul@paulsignorelli.com, through his website (http://paulsignorelli.com), and through his Building Creative Bridges blog.

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#libday7

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The Library Day in the Life Project is a semi-annual event coordinated by Bobbi Newman. Twice a year librarians, library staff and library students from all over the globe share a dat (or week) in their life through blog posts, photos, video and Twitter updates.

If all goes according to plan, Bobbi will be my guest on the show in January 2012, when Library Day in the Life 8 rolls around. For the seventh round, I’ve decided to document how I do the podcast.

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Library Day in the Life
#libday7
Librarian by Day
GarageBand
Skype
Call Recorder
Audacity
Blue Snowball Microphone
Swiss Army Librarian
Sarah Houghton
Buffy Hamilton | CI: Episode 1

2: Unshelved

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Steve speaks with Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes from the webcomic Unshelved.

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Librarian Gene Ambaum and cartoonist Bill Barnes began publishing Unshelved on February 16, 2002. They have eight published collections.

Gene Ambaum (by Bill Barnes)

Gene Ambaum uses a pen name because he’s scared of his own shadow. He is so good at making fun of strange, difficult customers in Unshelved because he is the strangest, most difficult customer of all. He taught English overseas because no one there was in a position to criticize his spelling. If he ever starts another comic strip it will be about poop, because that’s what he spends most of his time thinking about.

Bill Barnes (by Gene Ambaum)

Bill Barnes loves librarians, show tunes, and meat. He can count his toes without taking off his shoes. Over the past eight years, he has tried to convince Gene that the meaning of “partnership” is doing what he says 99% of the time. He can often be seen wandering the floor at trade shows playing “The Final Countdown” on his ukulele Death Adder. In his spare time he draws Unshelved and writes a comic about the software industry, Not Invented Here.

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1: Buffy Hamilton

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Steve and Buffy discuss “that Seth Godin blog”, The Atlas of New Librarianship, and more.

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Buffy Hamilton, the Unquiet Librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, GA, is a nineteen year veteran educator and passionate about creating meaningful learning experiences for her students.  She is the GAIT/GLMLA School Library Media Specialist of the Year 2010 for the state of Georgia, and her media program was named one of the two exemplary high school media programs in Georgia 2010. Buffy’s Media 21 program is an ALA OITP 2011 Cutting Edge Service Award winner, and she is a 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. She blogs at The Unquiet Librarian and ALA Learning. You can follow her on Twitter @buffyjhamilton.S

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Episode Zero

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I’ve always liked reading interviews.

My favorite magazine and newspaper articles are interviews. My favorite podcasts are interviews (Teri Gross’s Fresh Air and Dan Benjamin’s The Pipeline have been among my favs). My favorite blog posts are interviews.  Best of all is when the interview is presented Q&A style; I don’t like when it’s streamed together as a narrative because it seems like a cheat, like it’s falsely presenting the information. I want to know the questions that prompted the answers. I want transparency from my interviewer.
 
I also want transparency in my profession. Being a librarian means that I have an insatiable curiosity, and I’m especially curious as to how the profession is making its way into the future.  As the world moves into new digital territories, librarians will keep up (we’re organizing and filtering information same as we always have, just in a different format). I don’t think there are any people within the profession who genuinely believe that libraries are going the way of the dodo, or if there are, they’re a dying breed.  However, I do think there are people – too many people – outside the profession who believe that.
 
But maybe those people just don’t understand what we’re doing. Maybe they haven’t been in a library in years so don’t understand the innovative things we have going on, from public libraries to school libraries, academic libraries to special libraries.  Is that their fault or is it our fault for not marketing ourselves better?  I’d say there’s blame to be shared.
 
This show is my meager attempt to get the word out on what we’re doing as a profession to remain relevant and to push the boundaries of learning and collating information, getting our ideas out there in the world, circulating them like we circulate our collections.  I hope it will also be enlightening to my fellow librarians to learn more about what other librarians are doing to push the profession forward.  I’ll be interviewing librarians and other people relevant to the profession and getting their points of view out to you, the listeners, and I hope that they spark discussions, whether you agree with the interview subject’s views or not.
 
I hope you enjoy the show and that it inspires you to keep circulating your ideas.