162: David Lankes

July 23, 2019 ~ circideas ~ Leave a comment

Steve chats with Dr. R. David Lankes, director of the University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science, about the current state of New Librarianship, Big Data and privacy concerns, and defining library science as distinct to information science.

R. David Lankes is a professor and the director of the University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science. Lankes has always been interested in combining theory and practice to create active research projects that make a difference. His work has been funded by organizations such as The MacArthur Foundation, The Institute for Library and Museum Services, NASA, The U.S. Department of Education, The U.S. Department of Defense, The National Science Foundation, The U.S. State Department, and The American Library Association.

Lankes is a passionate advocate for libraries and their essential role in today’s society earning him the American Library Association’s Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship in 2016. 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 was the first fellow of ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy. His book,The Atlas of New Librarianship won the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature.

SHOW NOTES:

David’s blog
University of South Carolina SLIS

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155: Ann Ewbank

April 16, 2019April 7, 2019 ~ circideas ~ Leave a comment

Steve chats with Ann Ewbank, and author of Political Advocacy for School Librarians: Leveraging Your Influence, about her path to librarianship, why political advocacy is essential for school librarians, the importance of building relationships with stakeholders, and her time as an inaugural member of the ALA Policy Corps.

Ann Dutton Ewbank, PhD, is associate professor at Montana State University, Bozeman. She researches school library advocacy and is a member-leader in the American Library Association (ALA). A tireless advocate, Ewbank has direct experience working with elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels to enact positive policy for school library programs.

Political Advocacy for School Librarians

150: Sarah LeMire

February 5, 2019February 4, 2019 ~ circideas ~ 1 Comment

Steve chats with Sarah LeMire, co-author of Serving Those Who Served: Librarian’s Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities and the First Year Programs Coordinator at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, about her path to librarianship, transitioning new students to college life (including an AR tour of the library!), and how various types of libraries can best serve veterans and military communities.

Sarah LeMire is the co-author of Serving Those Who Served: Librarian’s Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities and the First Year Programs Coordinator at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. Her work focuses on information literacy instruction, assessment, and outreach to special populations, especially veterans. She was recognized as a member of ALA’s 2015 class of Emerging Leaders and was a 2017 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.

143: David Beard

October 23, 2018March 22, 2019 ~ circideas ~ Leave a comment

Guest host Troy Swanson chats with journalist David Beard about his work at the Poynter Institute and Mother Jones and how librarians and journalists can thrive in the future and fight off fake news.

David Beard is a contributing editor to Poynter and writes the Morning MediaWire. He is a former digital content editor of The Washington Post, editor of Boston.com and executive editor of Public Radio International’s pri.org. He also covered Latin America and the Caribbean as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press.

Troy A. Swanson is Teaching & Learning Librarian and Library Department Chair at Moraine Valley Community College. Troy is the author or editor of several books and articles including co-editor of Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think About Information which received the Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award from ARCL’s Instruction Section.

141: Laura Saunders

September 25, 2018March 23, 2019 ~ circideas ~ Leave a comment

Guest host Troy Swanson chats with Laura Saunders, an Associate Professor at Simmons University School of Library and Information Science.

Laura Saunders is an Associate Professor at Simmons University School of Library and Information Science, teaching and conducting research in the areas of reference and instruction, information literacy, and academic libraries. She also has a strong interest in the connections between information literacy and the spread of misinformation or “fake news,” and social justice issues related to libraries. In April of 2018 she ran the Know News symposium, which brought together 80 librarians, journalists and allied professionals to discuss collaborative responses to the challenges of misinformation. Her articles have appeared in a variety of journals including College & Research Libraries, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, and Reference & User Services Quarterly. She has written two books: Information Literacy as a Student Learning Outcome: The Perspective of Institutional Accreditation and Repositioning Reference: New Methods and New Services for a New Age co-authored with Lily Rozaklis and Eileen Abels. Laura has a PhD and a Master’s of Library and Information Science, both from Simmons College, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Boston University.

139: Nicole Cooke

August 29, 2018March 23, 2019 ~ circideas ~ 4 Comments

Guest host Troy Swanson chats with Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era.

Dr. Nicole A. Cooke is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is also the Program Director for the MS in Library and Information Science program. Her research and teaching interests include human information behavior, critical cultural information studies, and diversity and social justice in librarianship , and her latest book is Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era (ALA Editions, 2018).

138: Karen Green

August 14, 2018March 23, 2019 ~ circideas ~ 1 Comment

Steve chats with Karen Green, Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the creator of the graphic novels collection in Columbia’s Butler Library, about her (Eisner-winning!!) path to librarianship, defining comics, and how she teaches comics as literature.

Karen Green is the Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the creator of the graphic novels collection in Columbia’s Butler Library. She has been an Eisner Awards judge, a Pulitzer Prize juror, a co-producer of the documentary “She Makes Comics,” and has spoken about comics at universities and comic cons across the country and around the world.

SHOW NOTES:

A Life in Comics

133: Matthew Noe

May 22, 2018March 23, 2019 ~ circideas ~ 1 Comment

Steve chats with Matthew Noe, Collection Outreach Librarian at Harvard Medical School, about what graphic medicine is, his “early” experiences with comics, why libraries should collect comics, upcoming conferences, and his work on an annotated bibliography of graphic medicine.

Matthew Noe is a health sciences librarian specializing in graphic medicine and the medical humanities. He earned his BA in Philosophy (2012) and MS in Library Science (2016) from the University of Kentucky and is currently the Collection Outreach Librarian at Harvard Medical School, as well as an adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky, School of Information. He maintains the “This Week in Graphic Medicine” blog series for Graphic Medicine and regularly provides aid in developing graphic medicine collections. When not working, Matthew spends time devouring all-manner of books, re-watching childhood cartoons, and goofing off with his fiance, Gabrielle, and their two dogs, Luna and Belle.

SHOW NOTES:

Graphic Medicine Book List
Graphic Medicine Database

132: Laurie Allen

May 8, 2018March 23, 2019 ~ circideas ~ 2 Comments

Steve chats with Laurie Allen, Assistant Director for Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania, about digital scholarship, digitizing Philadelphia neighborhood maps, and the Data Refuge project.

Laurie Allen leads a team providing oversight, coordination, and support for services spanning digital publishing and open access, data services and management, digital humanities/digital scholarship, and Mapping & Geospatial Data. Before her appointment as Penn Libraries’ Assistant Director for Digital Scholarship, Laurie was Coordinator of Digital Scholarship and Services at Haverford College. Still earlier, she was the Penn Libraries’ Social Sciences Data Librarian. Laurie is actively engaged in regional and national organizations and collaborations around digital scholarship through presentations, panels and research projects. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Bard College, and a Master’s of Library and Information Science from Simmons College.

SHOW NOTES:

OpenDataPhilly
Data Refuge
Data Refuge Stories

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129: Trevor Dawes

March 27, 2018March 23, 2019 ~ circideas ~ Leave a comment

Guest host Charlie Bennett chats with Trevor Dawes, vice provost for libraries and museums and May Morris University Librarian at the University of Delaware, about making professional goals, being ACRL president, mentoring and leadership, and increasing diversity and inclusion in libraries.

Trevor A. Dawes is the vice provost for libraries and museums and May Morris University Librarian at the University of Delaware. In this role, he oversees the staff and operations of the UD Library, Museums and Press, which consists of Morris Library, three branch libraries, three museum galleries and the University of Delaware Press.

Prior to arriving at the University of Delaware in July 2016, Dawes was an associate university librarian at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was responsible for many of the libraries’ public services operations. Dawes earned his master of library science from Rutgers University and has two additional master’s degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an active member of several professional associations, including being past president of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and a current member of the Executive Board of the American Library Association.

Charlie Bennett was born in New York, raised in Virginia, and moved to Atlanta to study at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After earning degrees in Economics and Science, Technology, and Culture (STAC), he stayed with the school and became an academic librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. He co-hosts the “original research-library rock’n’roll radio show” called Lost in the Stacks on WREK Atlanta, and produces the media critique podcast Supercontext with Christian Sager.