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85: Barbara Fister

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Steve chats with Barbara Fister, librarian at the Gustavus Adolphus College library in St. Peter, Minnesota and writer of the Library Babel Fish blog at Inside Higher Ed.

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Barbara Fister has coordinated instruction at the Gustavus Adolphus College library in St. Peter, Minnesota, for over 25 years, but is still learning how to help students learn. She has studied students’ research processes, examined the relationship between writing and research, and has taught a course on how information works for students planning to go on to graduate education for nearly ten years.

Another of her interests is the future of publishing. She has written widely on open access to scholarship and is a founding editor of the new Journal of Creative Library Practice. She  Drawing these two interests together, she is exploring ways the library can support learning experiences that position students as creators of public knowledge.

Popular literacy practices and the role of reading in everyday life is another thread of her work. A recent sabbatical project explored online reading communities; she has made that work available in open access form in an essay collection, Babel Fish Bouillabaisse. You can follow Barbara’s generalist tendencies on Twitter and through her Library Babel Fish blog at Inside Higher Ed.

84: Andy Ihnatko

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Steve chats with Andy Ihnatko, tech columnist at The Chicago Sun-Times and prolific podcaster.

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Andy Ihnatko is The Chicago Sun-Times’ technology columnist. He’s also the co-host of the MacBreak Weekly podcast for the This Week In Tech network and his own Ihnatko Almanac podcast on 5by5. You can follow him on Twitter as @ihnatko, or check out his blog at http://ihnatko.com/.

SHOW NOTES

Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth
Andy’s Boston Public Library Flickr album
“The Secret Garden”

83: Loriene Roy

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Steve chats with Loriene Roy, Professor and Graduate Advisor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin and 2007-2008 ALA President.

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Loriene Roy was born and raised in northern Minnesota. She is Anishinabe, enrolled on the White Earth Reservation (Pembina Band), a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Dr. Roy received an MLS from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently is Professor and Graduate Advisor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches graduate courses in reference, library instruction, social/cultural constructs of information, and popular music/digital design. She served as 2007-2008 President of the American Library Association and the 1997-1998 President of the American Indian Library Association. Currently she is a member of the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Advisory Board, Freedom to Read Foundation Board of Trustees and Design4Learning: 21st Century Online Learning for Library Workers, Leadership Team. She has received numerous professional awards, most recently the 2015 Distinguished Service Award, American Indian Library Association; 2014 Library School Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and the 2014 Sarah Vann Award, ALA Hawai’i Student Chapter at the University of Hawai’i Manoa Library & Information Science Program. She was the recipient of the 2009 Leadership Award, National Conference Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. She has given over 600 presentations at venues around the world.

82: Best Graphic Novels of 2015

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Kristin LaLonde and Thomas Maluck from the Secret Stacks podcast share their Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2015.

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Kristin LaLonde is an Access Services Librarian and Circulation Department Manager at the Chippewa River District Library in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Kristin received her MLIS from Wayne State University in 2011. She began her library career as a Special Librarian at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, MI and has worked in multiple kinds of libraries throughout her life. Most librarians from the Internet probably know her as @shinyinfo on Twitter. Her hobbies include watching Murder, She Wrote, giving people a hard time and bro-ing out.

Thomas Maluck is a teen services librarian at Richland Library in Columbia, South Carolina. He has presented at various fan-culture and professional conventions about graphic novels, manga, and teen services, including the American Library Association’s Annual and Midwinter conferences, DragonCon, NashiCon, and New York Comic Con. He served on YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels For Teens committee for its 2014 and 2015 lists, and has published articles in Library Trends, Public Libraries, Strategic Library, and The Hub. He currently reviews for No Flying, No Tights, writes about comics for Comics, Cosplay, and Geek Culture in Libraries, and regularly blogs graphic novel recommendations on Richland Library’s website.

Together, Kristin and Thomas host Secret Stacks, a podcast about comics and libraries.

SHOW NOTES

CI71: Marissa Lieberman (guest hosts Kristin LaLonde and Thomas Maluck)

81: Brian Mathews

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Guest host Charlie Bennett chats with Brian Mathews, Associate Dean at Virginia Tech.

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Brian Mathews is an Associate Dean at Virginia Tech. He brings leadership and strategic vision to the areas of learning spaces, webinteractions, emerging media and technologies, new literacies, user engagement, and experimental pedagogies.

Brian is also an Assistant Director for Virginia Tech’s newly formed Center for Innovation in Learning. And he is a Faculty Fellow for Virginia Tech’s Honors Residential College.

Previously, Brian was an Assistant University Librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He led the libraries marketing and outreach efforts and was heavily involved with planning for a $67 million library addition and renovation.

Prior to UCSB, Brian worked at Georgia Tech. He started out as a reference and instruction librarian and was a liaison to the College of Computing and Department of Mechanical Engineering. After several years in this role, Brian became the first user experience librarian in the US. This position was a blend of assessment, R&D, marketing, outreach, and design.

Brian earned a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida, and a double BA in History and English at the University of Central Florida.

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Charlie Bennett was born in New York, raised in Virginia, and moved to Atlanta to study at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After earning degrees in Economics and Science, Technology, and Culture (STAC), he stayed with the school and became an academic librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. He co-hosts the “one-and-only research-library rock’n’roll radio show” called Lost in the Stacks on WREK Atlanta, and produces the irreverent podcast Consilience With Pete and Charlie about the intersection of science and the humanities.

80: Sarah Strahl

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Guest host Leah White chats with Sarah Strahl, Assistant Director of Technology and Technical Services at Ela Area Public Library.

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Sarah Strahl is the Assistant Director of Technology and Technical Services at Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich, IL. She received her MLS from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2008. She currently serves on the Program Planning Committee for Electronic Resources and Libraries. She enjoys trying to figure out the whodunnit in a wide variety of mysteries and can be found on tumblr @detectiveinspectorlibrarian.

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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.

79: Tara Robertson

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Steve chats with Tara Robertson, Accessibility Librarian at CAPER-BC.

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Tara Robertson is an accessibility advocate and systems librarian. She works as an Accessibility Librarian at CAPER-BC and oversees the production of alternate formats (e-text, Accessible PDF, DAISY, Kurzweil),  advocates  for  accessibility  and works to improve service. She is passionate about accessibility, access to information, open source (especially the open source ILS Evergreen), intellectual freedom, and Fluevog shoes.

78: Suzan Alteri

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Steve chats with Suzan Alteri, curator at the Baldwin Library for Historical Children’s Literature at the University of Florida.

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Suzan A. Alteri, Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, conducts research on the materiality of the book and special collections in the classroom. She is the principal investigator on the grant “Women Authored Science Books for Children 1790-1890,” awarded by the American Library Association. In addition, Suzan has curated the following exhibits: Subverting the Natural Order, Bigger, Better, Best: the Panama Canal in Children’s Literature, When Phantasie Takes Flight: the Art &Imagination of Arthur Rackham, and Grimm Changes. Her most recent publication, “The Classroom as Salon: a Collaborative Project on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe” appeared in Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries. She regularly liaises with the Department of English on campus, which includes the Children’s Center for Literature and Culture.

SHOW NOTES

Baldwin Library for Historical Children’s Literature
Unjustly Maligned: “Monopoly”

Down The Rabbit Hole

77: Alison Macrina

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Steve chats with Alison Macrina, the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project.

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Alison Macrina is a librarian, privacy rights activist, and the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative which aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom in libraries by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools to help safeguard digital freedoms. Alison is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and giant multinational corporations. When she’s not doing any of that, she’s reading.

SHOW NOTES

Library Freedom Project
Digital Rights in Libraries conference
Library Digital Privacy Pledge
Tor Exit Relays in Libraries
Kilton Library’s Tor node is back online [BoingBoing]