Rita Meade is a public children’s librarian in Brooklyn, NY. In her spare time, she blogs at ScrewyDecimal, reviews kid’s books for School Library Journal, and writes for the Book Riot site. You can follow her on Twitter @ScrewyDecimal.
SHOW NOTES:
Library Rangers Kickstarter
Screwy Decimal [blog]
Book Riot
Dear Book Nerd
“What’s a Library?”
“A Librarian’s Response to ‘What’s a Library?'”
“Libraries in New York City: Why We Give a Damn and Why You Should Too”
Urban Libraries Unite
Joseph Janes is Associate Professor and Chair of the MLIS Program at the University of Washington Information School. A frequent speaker in the US and abroad, he was the Founding Director of the Internet Public Library and the author of several books on librarianship, technology, and their relationship, including Library 2020 and has written a monthly column for American Libraries magazine since 2002. He is the 2006 recipient of the Isadore Gilbert Mudge award from the American Library Association for distinguished contributions to reference librarianship. He holds the M.L.S. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the State University of New York at Albany as well as at Syracuse and Washington. SHOW NOTESLibrary 2020
Documents that Changed History
Another Story (prev. Internet Librarian)
Leah White interviews Steve Thomas, the regular host of the show, using your questions, as a thanks for supportingthe Kickstarter campaign.
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)
A dramatic reenactment of Steve’s email conversation with the Annoyed Librarian.
One of the stretch goals of my Kickstarter was an interview with the eponymous Annoyed Librarian, but what makes that tricky is the anonymity that the AL uses as a shield. Since s/he wouldn’t agree to a Skype call, we did an email interview and with her/his approval, I had AnnMarie and Tony Saunders, my sister and brother-in-law (both actors), perform a dramatic reenactment for the show.
Hope you enjoy this very different episode.
Thanks to my successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year, I was able to attend the ALA Annual Conference this past summer in Chicago to speak with a number of librarians, and the key promised interview was with Nancy Pearl. Nancy was gracious enough to agree to the interview and gave me some of her time to talk about her books, the rise of makerspaces, and readers’ advisory.
Allison and I teamed up for an interview over at Authors are ROCKSTARS! with author Gwenda Bond to discuss her YA novels BLACKWOOD and THE WOKEN GODS, the overwhelming awesomeness of her first ALA conference, and her love of Christopher Pike.
Around the time of the ALA Midwinter conference last year, I teamed up with Allison and Michelle from Authors are ROCKSTARS! to produce a series of interviews we called Librarians are ROCKSTARS!, where we spoke with authors about their experiences with libraries. Since Allison and I were both attending the ALA conference in Chicago this summer (Michelle couldn’t make it, sadly), we wanted to do some more interviews with authors.
Last week, you heard our chat with Gene Luen Yang and this week, we’re proud to let you hear our insightful interview with Cory Doctorow. Even though he had a busy conference, Cory graciously gave us his time and shared his thoughts on how librarians remain relevant in the 21st century, his support for fair ebook terms for libraries, and spoiled the end of Homeland (not really).
Stay tuned to Authors are ROCKSTARS! next week for our final joint interview from ALA.
SHOW NOTES:
Craphound
Boing Boing
Authors for Library eBooks [ALA]
Cory’s talk at Library of Congress [Craphound]
Philip Pullman: ‘Authors must be paid fairly for ebook library loans’ [The Guardian];Libraries ‘have had their day’, says Horrible Histories author [The Guardian]
Collaboration is one of my favorite things to do. I love working with other librarians to accomplish bigger and better things, and I’m happy to say that I was able to connect with Allison Tran from the Authors are ROCKSTARS! podcast once again for our semi-regular Librarians are ROCKSTARS series (we spoke with Kirby Larson and Tom Angleberger earlier, along with her regular co-host Michelle). When Allison wasn’t busy trying to recruit me into YALSA like Sam Jackson recruiting superheroes into the Avengers, we were chatting with a number of great authors.
First up in this series is Gene Luen Yang, Printz Award winning author and artist of AMERICAN BORN CHINESE and the new BOXERS & SAINTS. Visit the Authors are ROCKSTARS site for more info on this interview and stay tuned throughout August for more great author interviews!
As a special bonus, this episode features three songs Julie Jurgens wrote for specific sessions at the conference.
