Megan Emery, MLIS, is an Experience Designer & Coordinator for the Chattanooga Public Library. She has worked at library innovation for 3 public libraries in 3 different states for over 10 years. She is the author of Cooking Up Program Teens and Tweens Will Love: Recipes for Success, and she believes in the power of respecting the old while enthusiastically attempting the new, committing to user based design, and in petting puppies whenever you see them.
Kirsten Cappy is the owner of Curious City, a small company dedicated to creating discovery for children’s literature. Curious City creates story hour kits, book scavenger games, discussion and book club guides, videos, book giveaways, and other tools to engage young readers in the written word through play, conversation, and social action. These tools, created in partnership with authors, illustrators and publishers, are available free to librarians, educators, and literacy organizations at CuriousCityDPW.com.
Bonnie Thomas is the author of Creative Coping Skills for Children: Emotional Support Through Arts and Crafts Activities (2009); Creative Expression Activities for Teens: Exploring Identity Through Art, Craft, and Journaling (2010); How to Get Kids Offline, Outdoors and Connected to Nature: 200+ Activities to Encourage Self Esteem, Mindfulness, and Wellbeing (2014); More Creative Coping Skills for Children: Activities, Games, Stories, and Handouts to Help Children Self Regulate (2016); and Toxins and Antidotes : A Therapeutic Card Deck (2017). Bonnie counsels youth ages 3-17 at her private practice business Indigo North Counseling, LLC in Southern Maine.
SHOW NOTES:
The Healing Library
The Healing Library: Lending Healing Experiences to Families [Infopeople webinar]
What a Beautiful Morning by Arthur Levine
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Megan Emery is an L2 at the Chattanooga Public Library though she prefers the title Experience Designer & Coordinator. She shares her time between the Teen/Tween Department and the 4th Floor creating unique programming opportunities and building community partnerships that aim to blend art, technology, green living and the quirks of her community. She is the author of Cooking Up Programs Teens and Tweens Will Love: Recipes for Success, she blogs at www.meganfemery.com, and on Twitter she goes by @bibli. In her spare time she can be found laughing, dreaming about libraries, experimenting with vegetable juice recipes, and trying to throw another party.
Steve chats with attendees of the Public Library Association Conference in Denver, CO, in 2016.
Guests: Dolly Moehrle, Brett Bonfield, Sam Chada, Megan Emery, Becky Yoose, Ryan Claringbole, with a special presentation of Steve’s How To Festival talk about podcasting.
Steve talks to staff from the Chattanooga Public Library, including Library Director Corinne Hill.
Thanks to my guests Corinne Hill, Justin Hoenke, Rebecca Dunn, Megan Emery, Geoff Millener, and to Downtown Branch Manager Mary Jane Spehar for the tour of the branch.
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