Steve chats with Stephanie Chase and Hillary Ostlund from Hillsboro (OR) Public Library, about their paths to librarianship, working with a diverse community, going deskless, and blowing up their organizational structure. Read the transcript. Stephanie Chase is the Director of Libraries for the City of Hillsboro, Oregon. With more than twenty years of experience in … Continue reading 166: Stephanie Chase and Hillary Ostlund
Steve chats with Sari Feldman, newly-retired Executive Director of Cuyahoga County Public Library and former president of the Public Library Association and the American Library Association, about lessons learned as ALA President, the current library ebook landscape, her legacy at Cuyahoga County, and how she will continue to work within the profession. In August 2019, … Continue reading 165: Sari Feldman
Steve chats with Cicely Lewis, library media specialist at Meadowcreek High School in Norcross, GA, about Read Woke and other projects she has created for her students, her path from teaching to libraries, and how it feels to win so many awards in such a short period of time. Cicely Lewis is the library media … Continue reading 164: Cicely Lewis
Steve chats with Rebecca Vnuk, Executive Director of LibraryReads, about her current favorite reads, what LibraryReads is, and how library staff can get involved. Rebecca Vnuk is the Executive Director of LibraryReads. She has an MLIS from Dominican University and worked as a public librarian before becoming the editor for Collection Management and Library Outreach … Continue reading 163: Rebecca Vnuk
Steve reports back from the second day of the 2017 ALA Annual Conference and has brief chats with Leah White and Becky Spratford. SHOW NOTES: Sarah Jessica Parker announces first pick for ALA’s Book Club Central Circulating Ideas is produced with support from the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science and … Continue reading 111.2 ALA Annual 2017, Day 2
This is Circulating Ideas. I’m Steve Thomas. This is the final interview in my series from the Illinois Library Association conference, this time with Rebecca Vnuk. She is the editor for reference and collection management at Booklist Publications and is the co-creator of Shelf Renewal. She’s the author of three readers’ advisory nonfiction titles on … Continue reading Rebecca Vnuk
Thank you to everyone who supported the Recirculated Kickstarter! Michael Allen, Stephanie Anderson, Kristin W. Andrews, Debi Babb, Laura Bang, Charlie Bennett, Kevin M. Bligh, Scott Bonner, Heather Booth, Megan Brooks, Liz Burns, Michael E. Casey, Erin Dorris Cassidy, Sam Chada, Galen Charlton, Amanda Ching, Carolyn Ciesla, Anne Clark, Roy Clarkson, copystar, Kyle K. Courtney, Jeffrey … Continue reading Thanks!
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Steve speaks with a group of librarians about their favorite books of 2012 (and some sneak peeks into 2013). Liz Burns:Code Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinFroi of the Exiles by Melina MarchettaI Hunt Killers by Barry LygaLong Lankin by Lindsey BarracloughRaven Boys by Maggie StiefvaterFitzOsbornes at War by Michelle CooperComing in 2013:Game by Barry LygaKiki Strike: The Darkness Dwellers by Kirsten MillerQuintana of … Continue reading 20: Best Books of 2012 (Part One)
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