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Gwyneth Stupar is an Adult Services Librarian at the Barrington Area Library. Gwyneth received her Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University in 2006, and currently serves on the board of the LACONI (Library Administrators Conference of Northern Illinois)technology section. Gwyneth’s favorite quote? “No matter how successful you become, someone always helps you.” Check out her website at http://www.gwynethstupar.com or @gwynonite on Twitter.
Barbara Alvarez has been working libraries for 4 years. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign in May 2012. Currently she is the Resource Guide Coordinator for iREAD Committee through ILA, is completing Synergy, a grant-funded leadership opportunity through the Illinois State Library and ILMS, and writes regularly for Public Libraries Online. Stay in touch at barbaralvarez.com and @the_barbrarian.
Leah White is the Head of Popular Materials at the Ela Area Public Library in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago and the author of The Library Innovation Toolkit. She graduated from Dominican University with her MLIS in 2008 and won the Library Journal Movers & Shakers Award in 2012 for her work on building community engagement. You can find her on Twitter: @leahlibrarian or check out her website: www.leahlwhite.com.
Naomi House is the founder, editor and publisher at INALJ.com and a former reference, marketing and acquisitions librarian for a federal library. She and her 180+ volunteers work to add over 7,000 jobs a month and tons of great articles to the website. She believes well sourced quantity is quality and ‘squees’ each and every time someone shares that they found a job. Along with her husband, Sana, she flips houses in New Orleans. Naomi is a well known international presenter (over 60 presentations in the past 3 years) and most recently presented at OCLC EMEA in Cape Town, South Africa, at the National Press Club in Washington DC and in Dubai at the American University in the Emirates.
Guest host Leah White is the Head of Popular Materials at the Ela Area Public Library and a member of the Adult Reading Round Table Steering Committee. Leah graduated from Dominican University with her MLIS in 2008 and won the Library Journal Movers & Shakers Award in 2012. Her forthcoming book on innovation in libraries will be out this Fall. She enjoys reading comic books, Instagramming pictures of her pets, and spending too much time reading the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin. You can find her on Twitter @leahlibrarian or check out her website.
This episode wraps up the string of episodes promised as part of the Kickstarter campaign back in the Spring. One of the stretch goals was an opportunity to ask me (Steve, the regular host of the show) questions, and regular contributor Leah White conducted that interview at the ALA Annual Conference this summer (we neglected to get a photo together, sorry!). SHOW NOTES: Fresh Air 5by5 Young Librarian Series | “Intersection” (Steve’s essay)
Far From The Tree by Andrew Solomon The Round House by Louise Erdrich The Passage of Power by Robert Caro Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg Building Stories by Chris Ware Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore By Blood by Ellen Ullman The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka I Am An Executioner by Rajesh Parameswaran Zona by Geoff Dyer The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal The Red Book by Carl Jung Coming in 2013: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Lullaby of Polish Girls by Dagmara Dominczyk NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Darien Library Staff Top 10: Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel Burn Down the Ground by Kambri Crews Elsewhere by Richard Russo The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe Far From The Tree by Andrew Solomon Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane Quiet by Susan Cain Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Message To Adolf by Osamu Tezuka Daredevil by Mark Waid & various artists The Graphic Canon by Various A Wrinkle In Time adapted by Hope Larson Drama by Raina Telgemeier Coming in 2013: Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura
Julie Jurgens: The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine Four Mile by Watt Key The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand Long Lankin by Lindsay Barrclough Black Dog by Levi Pinfold It’s a Tiger by David LaRochelle & ills. by Jeremy Tankard A Boy, a Bear and a Boat by Dave Shelton Marching To The Mountaintop : How Poverty, Labor Fights, And Civil Rights Set The Stage For Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Final Hours by Ann Bausum The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins Coming in 2013: The Beatles Were Fab (And They Were Funny) by Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer Seagulls Don’t Eat Pickles by Erica Farber
The Twelve by Justin Cronin At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson Royal Street by Suzanne Johnson Redshirts by John Scalzi Store of the Worlds by Robert Sheckley
Recent conferences have highlighted the importance of innovation in libraries, and it is a term often heard in library circles. But what is innovation? Innovation is an incremental process. It is the creation of effective, efficient, and better products, services, technologies, programs or structures to help libraries meet the needs of 21st century library patrons. How does your library engage in an innovation process? What innovations can your library adopt today? Who can suggest, plan, implement and assess ideas?
The Library Innovation Cookbook: Bite-Sized Ideas to Fuel Growth in Your Library is designed to answer those questions with quick morsels that your library can apply immediately.
EDITORS:
Dr. Anthony Molaro is an imaginarian and information activist and is the Associate Dean of Library and Instructional Technology at Prairie State College.
Leah L. White is a Reader Services Librarian and creator of Books on Tap, Northbrook Public Library’s first book club in a pub.