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111.1 ALA Annual 2017, Day 1
Category: Academic
108: Jeremy Shermak
Jeremy Shermak is a doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Moody College of Communication Doctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He has nearly 20 years of professional experience as a college professor, media analyst, and journalist. He earned a B.S. in Informatics from Indiana University, an M.A. in Writing Pedagogy from DePaul University, and an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri. Shermak’s research interests include the use of social media during live coverage, including sports and weather events. For his thesis, he examined the use of Twitter by newspaper sports beat reporters during live-game events. His theoretical interests include spiral of silence, deliberative democracy, and uses and gratifications.
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.
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105: ALA Presidential Candidates (2017)
SHOW NOTES
Loida Garcia-Febo’s campaign site
Terri Grief’s campaign site
Scott Walter’s campaign site
2017 ALA Midwinter – Presidential Candidates Forum
“ALA strongly protests rollback of protections for our nation’s transgender students” [ALA press release]
ALA Council Candidate Sorter 2017 [courtesy of Andromeda Yelton]
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104: Lane Wilkinson
Lane Wilkinson is the Director of Library Instruction at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He blogs at http://senseandreference.wordpress.com.
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.
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103: Michael Stephens
Dr. Michael Stephens is Assistant Professor in the School of Information at San Jose State University and teaches the online postgraduate course, The Hyperlinked Library, focused on the powerful emerging trends, tools and processes driving change in library and information communities. He was the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar in Australia, consulted for US Embassies in Germany, Switzerland, and Turkey, and presented to both national and international audiences about emerging technologies, innovation, and libraries. Since 2010, Dr. Stephens has written the monthly column “Office Hours” for Library Journal exploring the issues, ideas, and emerging trends in libraries and LIS education. For more than ten years, his research has focused on the use of emerging technologies in libraries and technology learning programs, and he is inspired by library structures and virtual spaces that support users, participation, creating content, and encouraging the heart. From 2005 to the present, Dr. Stephens has delivered keynotes, papers, and workshops throughout the US and internationally on topics related to creative and open uses of technology to support and drive library services and learning.
SHOW NOTES:
Tame the Web
The Heart of Librarianship
The Transparent Library
“Talk About Compassion” (Office Hours)
“Dream, Explore, Experiment” (Office Hours)
“Adopt or Adapt” (Office Hours)
“The Hygge State of Mind” (Office Hours)
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102: ALA Midwinter 2017
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101: David Lankes – Knowledge School
R. David Lankes is the director of the University of South Carolina’s School of Library & Information Science, the 2016-17 Follett Chair at Dominican’s Graduate School of Library & Information Science, and recipient of the American Library Association’s 2016 Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship. His book, The Atlas of New Librarianship won the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature. Lankes is a passionate advocate for librarians and their essential role in today’s society.
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97: Starr Hoffman
Starr Hoffman, PhD, is the Head of Planning & Assessment at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. She is the author of the book Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries (Facet Publishing / ALA Editions, 2016). Starr speaks and writes on assessment, research support, and academic library leadership. When she’s not researching, she travels around the world, scuba dives, partakes in various geeky pursuits like cosplay, and embarks on complex home improvement projects with her husband. You can find her online at http://geekyartistlibrarian.wordpress.com and on Twitter @artgeeklibraria.
SHOW NOTES
Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries
“The Preparation of Academic Library Administrators” [Starr’s dissertation]
92: Jacob Berg
Jacob Berg is Senior Librarian at the Stephen Low Information Center, Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State, via The LAC Group. He previous served as Director of Library Services at Trinity Washington University, holding that position from 2011 to 2015. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, two kids, two dogs, and blogs about libraries and beer at beerbrarian.blogspot.com. You can find him online @jacobsberg.
Sarah Clark, PhD, is Associate Library Director at the Rogers State University Libraries in Claremore, Oklahoma, and recently completed her doctorate in Higher Education Leadership at Oklahoma State University. She also blogs (and will soon be podcasting) about library leadership issues at betterlibraryleaders.com. In her spare time, Sarah knits, writes, plays tabletop RPGs, and co-hosts a podcast about a 50 year old boy band. Sarah lives in Northeast Oklahoma with her husband and two cats.
89: Meredith Farkas
Meredith Farkas is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College and a lecturer at San Jose State University’s iSchool. She is the author of the book “Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online” (Information Today, 2007) and writes the monthly column “Technology in Practice” for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology, and in 2014 with the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award.
SHOW NOTES
Information Wants to Be Free (blog)
Technology in Practice (American Libraries column)
“Reputation is Everything”
“The Next Librarian of Congress?”
Social Software in Libraries (book)
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